Cascades (CS6) Stock Price & Analysis
CS6 Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 10.90 - EUR 11.10
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 6.35 - EUR 11.50
- Previous Close
- EUR 10.90
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 4
- Market Cap
- EUR 1.12B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 3.10B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 96.00M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 1.98B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 13.7
- Beta
- 0.45
- Next Earnings
- Nov 05, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.25
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 2.75%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Profitability And Cash-flow Recovery
The return to positive earnings after several loss-making years, together with stronger operating and free cash flow, indicates meaningful business recovery. Improved cash generation can support reinvestment, debt service, and operational initiatives, giving Cascades greater flexibility over the next several quarters.
Packaging Scale And Market-share Gains
Cascades is growing comparable box shipments faster than the industry, suggesting stronger customer demand or share capture in a core packaging market. Sustained volume outperformance can improve asset utilization, reinforce customer relationships, and support more durable revenue growth.
Pricing And Productivity Support
The combination of announced price increases and realized productivity benefits provides identifiable mechanisms for protecting profitability against cost pressure. If implemented successfully, these actions can improve margins, strengthen earnings quality, and support management’s higher second-half EBITDA outlook.
Bears Say
Elevated Leverage
Leverage remains high for a cyclical packaging company even after a modest reduction in net debt. This limits financial flexibility, increases sensitivity to weaker volumes or margins, and can constrain capital allocation while management works to improve the balance sheet.
Thin And Volatile Profitability
The recent earnings recovery remains vulnerable because net profitability is still modest and the company has experienced repeated losses across prior years. Such volatility reduces confidence that improved results are fully structural and leaves less earnings protection if operating conditions deteriorate.
Persistent Input-cost Pressure
Higher recovered-fiber and pulp costs directly pressure the spread between Cascades’ input costs and selling prices. Although pricing actions may offset some inflation, continued raw-material increases can delay margin expansion and make earnings dependent on successful pass-through.
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Company Description
Cascades
Cascades Inc. is a prominent North American manufacturer, converter, and distributor specializing in a diverse range of packaging and tissue paper products. The company's operations are strategically divided into three key business units: Containerboard, Specialty Products, and Tissue Papers. The Containerboard segment focuses on producing containerboard materials and converting them into various corrugated goods. Its Specialty Products division boasts a diverse portfolio, including recycled uncoated paperboards utilized by packaging converters, industrial clients for paper headers and wrappers, and as protective partitions. This segment also provides honeycomb paperboards tailored for the beverage alcohol sector, laminated paperboards for food packaging and furniture support, alongside custom containers, structural elements, and advanced paperboard and fiber composite materials. Furthermore, it supplies egg filler flats and cartons to poultry processors, four-cup carriers for the fast-food industry, polystyrene foam trays for food processing and retail, rigid plastic packaging solutions for various food applications, and flexible films for frozen food, bakery, and ice products. The Tissue Papers segment encompasses a comprehensive selection of bathroom and facial tissues, paper towels, hand towels, and napkins, along with complementary services. These are sold under professional lines such as Cascades PRO Signature, PRO Perform, PRO Select, PRO Tandem, and PRO Tuff-Job, as well as consumer-focused labels like Cascades Fluff, Cascades Tuff, and Satin Soft, in addition to private label and other brand offerings. Beyond its core manufacturing, Cascades also extends its expertise to material recovery and processing services for discarded materials generated by municipal, industrial, commercial, and institutional entities. Distribution of its products is managed by both an in-house sales team and external representatives. Established in 1964, Cascades Inc. has its corporate headquarters situated in Kingsey Falls, Canada.
- Sector
- Consumercyclical
- Industry
- Packaging & Containers
- CEO
- Hugues Simon
- Employees
- 8,900
- Website
- www.cascades.com
- Address
- 404 Marie-Victorin Boulevard, Kingsey Falls, QC, J0A 1B0, CA
Cascades (CS6) Earnings & Revenues
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Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call conveyed a generally positive operational and financial trajectory driven by sequential improvements in both Packaging and Tissue, record production at multiple mills, meaningful sequential increases in sales, EBITDA and cash flow, progress on profitability programs and asset monetization, and clear price actions planned to support margins. Offsetting factors include ongoing raw material and transportation cost inflation, a modest year-over-year EBITDA decline in Tissue, specific financial losses, unchanged leverage at 3.3x, and potential downside from newly announced U.S. tariffs (assessment underway, estimated up to 5% of adjusted EBITDA run rate). On balance, reported operational momentum, improving cash generation, and management’s mitigation and pricing actions outweigh the headwinds discussed.
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Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 14 | 5 | 3 |
| Technical Analysis | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Moving Averages | 10 | 0 | 2 |
