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WLK
Westlake Corp
NYSE· Basic Materials· Specialty Chemicals· CUSIP 960413102
$64.14+5.42%Price as of Oct 23, 00:44 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Westlake Corp (WLK) is listed on NYSE and classified in Specialty Chemicals, part of the Basic Materials sector. It is headquartered in Houston, United States and has 14,600 employees. The company is worth $8.2B. Revenue was $11.17B in fiscal 2025, down 8.0% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $1.51B. The share price is 48.4% below its 52-week high of $124.23. It pays a dividend yielding 3.32%, and has raised its annual dividend for 20 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $114.64M. In that quarter, 5 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $8.2B
- P/E
- —
- Forward P/E
- 25.5x
- P/B
- 0.9x
- Dividend yield
- 3.32%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- -$9.58
- ROE
- -11.91%
- Profit margin
- -10.94%
- Revenue growth
- +10.80%
- Beta
- 0.69
- 52-week high
- $124.23
- 52-week low
- $56.33
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Price over time
▼ -31.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $710.03▼ -29.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $73.94 | $114.65 | $139.96 | $102.54 | $97.13 | $81.60 | $70.15 | $66.17 | $106.53 | $55.99 | $54.32 | $61.09 | $61.03 | $39.65 | $20.12 | $21.74 | $12.47 | |
| P/E |
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Cash flow
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Operating
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Dividends
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Basic Materials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESIElement Solutions Inc | $33.11 | 49.4x | 3.0x | 0.97% | 6.54% | $8.07B |
| NEUNewmarket Corp | $876.33 | 18.9x | 4.4x | 1.37% | 25.12% | $8.06B |
| CTVACorteva, Inc. | $12.86 | 7.9x | 1.1x | 0.84% | — | $8.58B |
| EGOEldorado Gold Corp | $32.91 |
About the company
- 14,600
- Houston, United States