S&P Global Timber & Forestry ETF Includes Dividend-Paying Forest and Paper Products Stocks

S&P Global Timber & Forestry (WOOD), an exchange-traded fund (ETF), includes 25 of the largest publicly-traded forestry, paper products and paper packaging companies. Top holdings include: Plum Creek Timber (PCL), Rayonier (RYN), Sino-Forest (TRE.TO), Weyerhaeuser (WY), OJI Paper (3861.T) and West Fraser Timber (WFT.TO). See all holdings.

Many of these stocks pay steady dividends with good dividend yields (e.g. PCL (3.90%), RYN (4.70%) and WY (4.80%), making WOOD an appropriate choice for a long-term dividend reinvestment portfolio.

WOOD began trading on June 24, 2008. Its annual expense ratio os 0.40 percent.

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Posted July 3, 2008.