Westlake (WLK) Stock Overview
Manufactures and markets performance and essential materials, and housing and infrastructure products in the United States, Canada, Germany, China, Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, and internationally. More details
| Snowflake Score | |
|---|---|
| Valuation | 0/6 |
| Future Growth | 3/6 |
| Past Performance | 0/6 |
| Financial Health | 2/6 |
| Dividends | 3/6 |
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Analyst Price Targets
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Community ContributorCA$5.07FV • 68.6% undervalued intrinsic discount
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Price History & Performance
| Historical stock prices | |
|---|---|
| Current Share Price | US$115.28 |
| 52 Week High | US$124.23 |
| 52 Week Low | US$56.33 |
| Beta | 0.75 |
| 1 Month Change | -1.32% |
| 3 Month Change | 45.34% |
| 1 Year Change | 24.94% |
| 3 Year Change | -1.32% |
| 5 Year Change | 12.71% |
| Change since IPO | 1,473.79% |
Recent News & Updates
WLK: Buybacks Litigation Settlement And CFO Transition Will Shape Balanced Outlook
Analysts have adjusted their price target on Westlake to $121.29 from $117.07, citing updated assumptions around revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News Westlake appointed Jonathan H.WLK: Buybacks And CFO Transition Will Shape A Balanced Forward Outlook
Analysts have lifted their fair value estimate for Westlake from about $113 to roughly $117, pointing to slightly higher revenue growth assumptions, a modestly lower discount rate, and a small shift in expected profit margin and future P/E as the key drivers behind the updated price target. What's in the News From October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, Westlake repurchased 445,881 shares, about 0.35% of its outstanding shares, for a total of US$32.84 million under its ongoing buyback program (Key Developments).WLK: Buybacks And Leadership Transition Will Shape A Measured Forward Outlook
Analysts have adjusted their price target for Westlake from $110.43 to $113.00, citing updated assumptions related to discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News From October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, Westlake repurchased 445,881 shares, representing 0.35% of its shares, for a total of US$32.84 million under its ongoing buyback program (Key Developments).Recent updates
WLK: Buybacks Litigation Settlement And CFO Transition Will Shape Balanced Outlook
Analysts have adjusted their price target on Westlake to $121.29 from $117.07, citing updated assumptions around revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News Westlake appointed Jonathan H.WLK: Buybacks And CFO Transition Will Shape A Balanced Forward Outlook
Analysts have lifted their fair value estimate for Westlake from about $113 to roughly $117, pointing to slightly higher revenue growth assumptions, a modestly lower discount rate, and a small shift in expected profit margin and future P/E as the key drivers behind the updated price target. What's in the News From October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, Westlake repurchased 445,881 shares, about 0.35% of its outstanding shares, for a total of US$32.84 million under its ongoing buyback program (Key Developments).WLK: Buybacks And Leadership Transition Will Shape A Measured Forward Outlook
Analysts have adjusted their price target for Westlake from $110.43 to $113.00, citing updated assumptions related to discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News From October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, Westlake repurchased 445,881 shares, representing 0.35% of its shares, for a total of US$32.84 million under its ongoing buyback program (Key Developments).
Three Pillar Plan And Housing Tailwinds Will Transform Earnings Quality
Catalysts About Westlake Westlake is a global producer of performance and essential materials and housing and infrastructure products that serve construction, industrial and municipal end markets. What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?WLK: Plant Closures And Charges Will Shape A Measured Forward Outlook
Analysts have raised their price target on Westlake from about $86 to about $110, reflecting updated views on fair value, discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E assumptions. What's in the News Chief Financial Officer M.
Footprint Optimization And Overcapacity Will Pressure Margins And Limit Earnings Recovery
Catalysts About Westlake Westlake Corporation produces performance and essential materials alongside housing and infrastructure products, serving global industrial, construction and municipal end markets. What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?WLK: Planned Plant Closures And Charges Will Shape Balanced Outlook
Analysts have modestly adjusted their price target on Westlake to $85.79. This reflects updated assumptions around discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin and future P/E that fine tune rather than overhaul their prior view.WLK: Planned US Plant Closures And Charges Will Pressure Forward Expectations
Analysts have nudged their price target on Westlake higher to about $85.79 from roughly $85.36, reflecting small tweaks to fair value inputs, discount rate assumptions, profit margin outlook, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News Westlake plans to cease operations at several North American chlorovinyl facilities, including its PVC plant in Aberdeen, Mississippi, its VCM plant at the Lake Charles, Louisiana North site, and one diaphragm chlor-alkali unit at the Lake Charles, Louisiana South site, with operations expected to end in December 2025 (Key Developments).WLK: Planned Facility Closures And Impairment Charges Will Shape Fair Valuation Outlook
Analysts have lifted their price target on Westlake from about US$82 to roughly US$85, pointing to updated assumptions around fair value, discount rate, revenue growth, profit margin, and future P/E as the key drivers behind the change. What's in the News Westlake plans to cease operations at several North American chlorovinyl facilities, including a PVC plant in Aberdeen, Mississippi, a VCM plant at Lake Charles North in Louisiana, and a diaphragm chlor alkali unit at Lake Charles South, with cessation targeted for December 2025 (Key Developments).WLK: Capacity Closures And Impairment Charges Will Shape Fairly Balanced Prospects
Analysts have nudged their price target for Westlake slightly higher to about US$82 per share, reflecting updated assumptions around discount rates, revenue growth, profit margins, and future P/E expectations. What's in the News Westlake plans to shut certain North American chlorovinyl facilities, including a PVC plant in Aberdeen, Mississippi, a VCM plant and a diaphragm chlor alkali unit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its styrene plant in Lake Charles, with cessation of operations targeted for December 2025 and an expected workforce reduction of about 295 employees (company announcement).WLK: Future Returns Will Reflect Capacity Closures And Fairly Balanced Prospects
Analysts have nudged their price target on Westlake higher by approximately 1 percent to about $82 per share. This reflects updated assumptions for a slightly higher discount rate and richer future valuation multiples that more than offset trimmed revenue growth and profit margin expectations.Westlake (NYSE:WLK) Has A Somewhat Strained Balance Sheet
Dec 14
WLK: Future Returns Will Reflect Buyback Completion And Recent Index Removal
Narrative Update on Westlake Analysts have increased their price target on Westlake to approximately 81.29 dollars per share from 81.29 dollars previously, a marginal upward revision reflecting slightly lower discount rate assumptions and modestly improved long term valuation metrics. What's in the News Recorded a significant unaudited goodwill impairment of approximately 727 million dollars for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025, signaling a downward reassessment of certain acquired assets (Key Developments) Completed its long running share repurchase program announced in 2014, having bought back a total of 9,482,402 shares, or about 7.31 percent of shares outstanding, for 662.35 million dollars, with no additional shares repurchased in the latest quarter (Key Developments) Was removed from the FTSE All World Index, potentially affecting index linked ownership and passive fund flows (Key Developments) Expanded its Magnolia Collection window line with a new black frame option across multiple series, targeting growing demand for darker, energy efficient window styles in residential construction (Key Developments) Valuation Changes Fair Value: unchanged at approximately 81.29 dollars per share, indicating a stable intrinsic value estimate.Westlake: My Year-End 2025 Update Implies Difficult Macro
Dec 09WLK: Share Buyback Completion Will Support Future Upside After Index Exit
Westlake's analyst price target has been revised slightly downward to $81.29 from $82.21 as analysts factor in modestly higher discount rates and updated profitability assumptions. What's in the News Westlake Corporation reported an unaudited goodwill impairment of $727 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025.Westlake (NYSE:WLK) Has Affirmed Its Dividend Of $0.53
Nov 21WLK: Share Buyback Completion Will Drive Upward Momentum Despite Index Removal
Analysts have lowered their price target for Westlake from $88.43 to $82.21, citing recent adjustments in key financial assumptions as well as expectations for increased revenue growth but slightly lower profitability. What's in the News Westlake reported a $727 million impairment of goodwill for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025 (Key Developments).WLK: Share Buyback And Dividend Distribution Will Support Upward Momentum
Analysts have slightly lowered their price target for Westlake from $88.86 to $88.43. They cite expectations of marginally slower revenue growth and a modestly higher discount rate, despite a small improvement in projected profit margins.US Municipal Spending And Urbanization Will Drive Demand
Westlake's analyst price target has been modestly reduced from $90.07 to $88.86. Analysts are adjusting their expectations in light of lower projected revenue growth and profit margins, along with a slight increase in discount rates.A Look At The Fair Value Of Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK)
Sep 25Westlake (NYSE:WLK) Will Pay A Larger Dividend Than Last Year At $0.53
Aug 14Should You Think About Buying Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK) Now?
Jul 27Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK) Not Flying Under The Radar
Jul 09Westlake (NYSE:WLK) Seems To Use Debt Quite Sensibly
Jun 21Are Investors Undervaluing Westlake Corporation (NYSE:WLK) By 37%?
May 12Westlake Corp.: Overvaluation Confirmed, What's Next?
Nov 28Shareholder Returns
| WLK | US Chemicals | US Market | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7D | 2.7% | -1.2% | -0.2% |
| 1Y | 24.9% | 11.4% | 27.6% |
Return vs Industry: WLK exceeded the US Chemicals industry which returned 11.4% over the past year.
Return vs Market: WLK underperformed the US Market which returned 27.6% over the past year.
Price Volatility
| WLK volatility | |
|---|---|
| WLK Average Weekly Movement | 7.2% |
| Chemicals Industry Average Movement | 7.6% |
| Market Average Movement | 7.2% |
| 10% most volatile stocks in US Market | 16.2% |
| 10% least volatile stocks in US Market | 3.3% |
Stable Share Price: WLK has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the US market.
Volatility Over Time: WLK's weekly volatility (7%) has been stable over the past year.
About the Company
| Founded | Employees | CEO | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 14,600 | Jean-Marc Gilson | www.westlake.com |
Westlake Corporation manufactures and markets performance and essential materials, and housing and infrastructure products in the United States, Canada, Germany, China, Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Performance and Essential Materials and The Housing and Infrastructure Products. The Performance and Essential Materials segment offers ethylene, polyethylene, chlor-alkali, chlorinated derivative products, ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), epoxy specialty resins, and base epoxy resins and intermediaries.
Westlake Corporation Fundamentals Summary
| WLK fundamental statistics | |
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| Market cap | US$14.27b |
| Earnings (TTM) | -US$1.50b |
| Revenue (TTM) | US$11.17b |
1.3x
P/S Ratio-9.8x
P/E RatioIs WLK overvalued?
See Fair Value and valuation analysisEarnings & Revenue
| WLK income statement (TTM) | |
|---|---|
| Revenue | US$11.17b |
| Cost of Revenue | US$10.36b |
| Gross Profit | US$813.00m |
| Other Expenses | US$2.31b |
| Earnings | -US$1.50b |
Last Reported Earnings
Dec 31, 2025
Next Earnings Date
May 05, 2026
| Earnings per share (EPS) | -11.72 |
| Gross Margin | 7.28% |
| Net Profit Margin | -13.44% |
| Debt/Equity Ratio | 60.1% |
How did WLK perform over the long term?
See historical performance and comparisonDividends
1.8%
Current Dividend Yield-18%
Payout RatioCompany Analysis and Financial Data Status
| Data | Last Updated (UTC time) |
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| Company Analysis | 2026/04/30 22:05 |
| End of Day Share Price | 2026/04/30 00:00 |
| Earnings | 2025/12/31 |
| Annual Earnings | 2025/12/31 |
Data Sources
The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.
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| Company Financials | 10 years |
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| Analyst Consensus Estimates | +3 years |
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| Market Prices | 30 years |
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| Ownership | 10 years |
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| Management | 10 years |
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| Key Developments | 10 years |
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* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.
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Analyst Sources
Westlake Corporation is covered by 27 analysts. 13 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.
| Analyst | Institution |
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| null null | Alembic Global Advisors |
| Michael Leithead | Barclays |
| Jonas Oxgaard | Bernstein |