We analyzed the performance of timberland investments against other major stock and bond markets between 2022-2024, our findings are below.
Analysis
US timberland outperformed several major stock and bond indexes in 2024 and continued to lead among real assets performance. In 2024, US Timberland returns were up 7.0%, split between strong capital appreciation at 5% and income return at 2%. This is the third consecutive year that US Timberland returns outperformed both US Farmland and US Real Estate. Looking back over the past 10 years, US stocks had four times more volatility than US timberland.
Timberland continues to offer stable and resilient returns over time and through periods of uncertainty, a pattern that has played out in recent years' performance data and also over the longer-term.
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