Westlake - WLK Stock Forecast, Price & News

12 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Westlake in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" WLK shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WLK, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Westlake's stock. Their WLK share price forecasts range from $92.00 to $155.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $129.75 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 22.1% from the stock's current price.
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Westlake's stock was trading at $97.13 at the start of the year. Since then, WLK shares have increased by 9.4% and is now trading at $106.28.
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Westlake saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,090,000 shares, an increase of 17.4% from the July 15th total of 1,780,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 862,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 5.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 1st 2022.
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Westlake Co. (NYSE:WLK) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The specialty chemicals company reported $4.69 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.96 by $0.73. The specialty chemicals company had revenue of $3.06 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.72 billion. Westlake had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 32.17% and a net margin of 18.97%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.60 earnings per share.

Westlake declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 12th. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 22nd will be given a dividend of $0.357 per share on Tuesday, September 6th. This represents a $1.43 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.34%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 19th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.30.
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Westlake (NYSE:WLK) pays an annual dividend of $1.19 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.14%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 18 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 5.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WLK will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.48% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Westlake's stock split on the morning of Wednesday, March 19th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Tuesday, February 18th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Tuesday, March 18th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

60 employees have rated Westlake Chief Executive Officer Albert Chao on Glassdoor.com. Albert Chao has an approval rating of 91% among the company's employees. This puts Albert Chao in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 73.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Westlake to a friend.

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Westlake trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WLK."

Westlake's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.32%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.22%), State Street Corp (0.55%), Prudential Financial Inc. (0.42%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.32%) and Fort Pitt Capital Group LLC (0.31%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert Chao, Andrew Kenner, Dorothy C Jenkins, George J Mangieri, Johnathan Stevan Zoeller, Johnathan Stevan Zoeller, L Benjamin Ederington, Lawrence E Teel, Mark Steven Bender, Robert F Buesinger, Roger L Kearns and Ttwfgp Llc.
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One share of WLK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $106.28.

Westlake (NYSE:WLK) has a market capitalization of $13.64 billion and generates $11.78 billion in revenue each year. The specialty chemicals company earns $2.02 billion in net income (profit) each year or $22.10 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 14,550 workers across the globe.

Westlake was founded in 1986.

Westlake's mailing address is 2801 POST OAK BLVD SUITE 600, HOUSTON TX, 77056. The official website for the company is www.westlake.com. The specialty chemicals company can be reached via phone at (713) 960-9111, via email at investorrelations@westlake.com, or via fax at 713-963-1590.