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George Weston Limited (WN.TO) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Grocery Stores · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Grocery Stores

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

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

Company snapshot — George Weston Limited

WN.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet 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
Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet 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.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.24%, quarterly · last 0.32 CAD on 2026-09-15

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 1.24% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • 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

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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is George Weston Limited (WN.TO)?

George Weston Limited trades as WN.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is WN.TO in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — George Weston Limited is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does WN.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.8% vs the 50-day and +1% vs the 200-day average, 7.6% below the 52-week high and +21.6% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does George Weston Limited compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Grocery Stores), George Weston Limited (WN.TO) sits 7.6% below its 52-week high, 0.8% below its 50-day average; Metro Inc. (MRU.TO) is 11.4% below, Empire Company Limited (EMP-A.TO) is 8.2% below, Ocado Group PLC (OCDO.L) is 12.3% below. Put any of them next to WN.TO in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

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. Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet 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 1.24% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.32 CAD on 2026-09-15. 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 Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Grocery Stores, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.