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Company snapshot — George Weston Limited

WN.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
George Weston runs two businesses under one holding company: Loblaw, which covers grocery stores, drugstores under the Shoppers Drug Mart name, and financial services such as a loyalty programme and a bank; and Choice Properties, a real estate trust that owns and leases retail and logistics buildings. It sells food, health and beauty items, apparel and other goods under store brands including President's Choice and no name. The company is based in Toronto and is controlled by Wittington Investments.
Where it sits in the stack
George Weston carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector of our universe, grouped by sector and country rather than by stack position.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other Consumer Defensive names based in Canada — Dollarama, Empire Company and Molson Coors Canada — grouped on sector and country rather than business model; the market also names Metro as a comparable grocery operator.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, a composite reading across several modules; capital allocation is the strongest module and growth the weakest, while it holds no index seat and draws no quotes in the diary's editions.
What the diary watches
Whether the Loblaw grocery and pharmacy business keeps generating the cash that supports the Choice Properties real estate arm, since the two segments move on different cycles.

George Weston Limited (WN.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Consumer Defensive.

The Closelook company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 50, quality 50, valuation 62) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for WN.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Grocery Stores · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Grocery Stores

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against WN.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.25%, quarterly · buybacks 2.32 bn CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What WN.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.24 CAD per share · a 1.25% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +316.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.30 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.32 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.60 CAD (partial) · 2026: 0.94 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-09-15
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 486 m CAD 32% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 2.32 bn CAD 6.3% of today's market value
  • Share count −3.0% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 2.80 bn CAD · 87% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is George Weston Limited (WN.TO)?

George Weston Limited trades as WN.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Consumer Defensive in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is WN.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — George Weston Limited is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is George Weston Limited's Closelook composite score?

53 out of 100, with momentum 50, quality 50 and valuation 62 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does WN.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.5% vs the 50-day and +1% vs the 200-day average, 8% below the 52-week high and +21.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does George Weston Limited do?

George Weston runs two businesses under one holding company: Loblaw, which covers grocery stores, drugstores under the Shoppers Drug Mart name, and financial services such as a loyalty programme and a bank; and Choice Properties, a real estate trust that owns and leases retail and logistics buildings. It sells food, health and beauty items, apparel and other goods under store brands including President's Choice and no name. The company is based in Toronto and is controlled by Wittington Investments. Closelook's peer group places it with other Consumer Defensive names based in Canada — Dollarama, Empire Company and Molson Coors Canada — grouped on sector and country rather than business model; the market also names Metro as a comparable grocery operator.

Where does George Weston Limited sit in the AI build-out?

George Weston carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary tracks; it belongs to the Consumer Defensive sector of our universe, grouped by sector and country rather than by stack position. It carries a Closelook score, a composite reading across several modules; capital allocation is the strongest module and growth the weakest, while it holds no index seat and draws no quotes in the diary's editions.

Does George Weston Limited pay a dividend?

George Weston Limited has paid 1.24 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.25% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.32 CAD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 486 m CAD in dividends and bought back 2.32 bn CAD of its own shares, 87% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 3.0% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WN.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Grocery Stores, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.