Westrock Company Company Profile (NYSE:WRK)

Westrock Company trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WRK."

Westrock Company announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 28th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 11th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Monday, August 21st. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.94%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, August 9th. View Westrock Company's Dividend History.

Westrock Company (NYSE:WRK) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 3rd. The company reported $0.74 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.64 by $0.10. The business had revenue of $3.70 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $3.66 billion. Westrock Company had a net margin of 2.92% and a return on equity of 6.38%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 2.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.71 earnings per share. View Westrock Company's Earnings History.

Westrock Company is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November, 6th 2017. View Earnings Estimates for Westrock Company.

11 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Westrock Company's shares. Their predictions range from $56.00 to $69.00. On average, they anticipate Westrock Company's share price to reach $62.22 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Westrock Company.

Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Westrock Company stock:

• 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "WestRock expects third-quarter fiscal 2017 earnings to be sequentially higher, benefiting from seasonally higher volumes, favorable mix and productivity. The company’s productivity and performance improvement programs across its manufacturing footprint as well as its cost-saving actions, remain tailwinds. WestRock's acquisition of assets of Island Container and Combined Container and five corrugated converting facilities from U.S. Corrugated will help it capitalize on the growing corrugated packaging demand. WestRock also outperformed the Zacks sub industry in the past one year. The company has a positive record of earnings surprises in the last few quarters." (7/14/2017)
• 2. KeyCorp analysts commented, "We are raising our FY17 and FY18 estimates for WestRock (WRK) following its acquisitions of Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS), U.S. Corrugated, and Island Container and Combined Container Industries. We expect the MPS acquisition to add $0.02 per month in the last four months of FY17, as a result of which we are increasing our FY17 adj. EPS estimate from $2.57 to $2.65. We are increasing our FY18 adj." (6/29/2017)
• 3. Jefferies Group LLC analysts commented, "We hosted investors meetings with mgmt last week and walked away constructive on the value creation opportunity from MPSX, market conditions in its core markets, and WRK's disciplined approach on capital deployment. While the sharper-than-anticipated uptick in OCC prices in March may give investors pause, WRK is trading with a 11.7% 2018E FCF yield, and to normalize the noise the FCF/share CAGR in 2017E and 2018E is 23%. 11.7% 2018E FCF yield, highest in the group." (3/7/2017)

Some companies that are related to Westrock Company include International Paper Company (IP), Mondi Plc (MNDI), Packaging Corporation of America (PKG), DS Smith plc (SMDS), Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK), KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation (KS), IG Design Group PLC (IGR), MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV), Powerflute Oyj (POWR) and Rock-Tenn Company (RKT).

Westrock Company's management team includes the folowing people:

• Steven C. Voorhees, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
• Ward H. Dickson, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
• Jeffrey Wayne Chalovich, President - Corrugated Packaging
• Robert A. Feeser, President - Consumer Packaging
• James B. Porter III, President - Business Development and Latin America
• Jennifer Graham-Johnson, Chief Human Resource Officer
• Robert Bruce McIntosh, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
• A. Stephen Meadows, Chief Accounting Officer
• John A. Luke Jr., Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
• Timothy J. Bernlohr, Independent Director

Westrock Company's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.57%), BlackRock Inc. (9.11%), FMR LLC (6.76%), Capital World Investors (6.62%), State Street Corp (4.38%) and Boston Partners (3.67%). Company insiders that own Westrock Company stock include Arnold Stephen Meadows, G Stephen Felker, J Powell Brown, James B Porter, John A Luke Jr, Robert A Feeser and Ward H Dickson. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Westrock Company.

Westrock Company's stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, State Street Corp, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Guyasuta Investment Advisors Inc., Royal Bank of Canada, Eaton Vance Management, Cibc World Markets Corp and Balyasny Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Westrock Company stock in the last year include Arnold Stephen Meadows, G Stephen Felker, James B Porter, John A Luke Jr and Robert A Feeser. View Insider Buying and Selling for Westrock Company.

Westrock Company's stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AJO LP, Bank of Montreal Can, Prudential Financial Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Northwestern Mutual Investment Management Company LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Thrivent Financial For Lutherans and Renaissance Technologies LLC. Company insiders that have bought Westrock Company stock in the last two years include J Powell Brown and Ward H Dickson. View Insider Buying and Selling for Westrock Company.

Shares of Westrock Company can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of Westrock Company stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.33.