Smurfit Westrock plc (SW)

• Market cap: $22B
• 1 day: -0.52%
• 5 days: 2.75%
• 1 month: -7.33%
• 3 months: -23.05%
• 6 months: -7.88%
• Year to date: -21.21%
• 1 year: -8.63%
• 5 years: -8.63%
• 10 years: -8.63%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Packaging & Containers

About: Smurfit WestRock manufactures corrugated packaging and consumer packaging, such as folding cartons and paperboard. After the merger of Smurfit Kappa and WestRock in summer 2024, Smurfit WestRock became the largest producer of containerboard in the world, with substantial operations in North America, South America, and Europe.

Employees: 100,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

1,882% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $33.8M | Put options by funds: $1.71M

186% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 140 | Existing positions closed: 49

18% more funds holding

Funds holding: 497 [Q3] → 585 (+88) [Q4]

9.89% more ownership

Funds ownership: 73.26% [Q3] → 83.15% (+9.89%) [Q4]

7% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 15 [Q3] → 16 (+1) [Q4]

6% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $22B [Q3] → $23.3B (+$1.3B) [Q4]

8% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 195 | Existing positions reduced: 181

Research analyst outlook

3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $43 2% upside
• Avg. target: $52 24% upside
• High target: $64 52% upside

3 analyst ratings

• positive: 2 67%
• neutral: 1 33%
• negative: 0 0%

Truist Securities Michael Roxland 26% 1-year accuracy 15 / 58 met price target	18% upside $50	Buy Maintained	22 Apr 2025
Wells Fargo Gabe Hajde 42% 1-year accuracy 27 / 64 met price target	2% upside $43	Equal-Weight Maintained	8 Apr 2025
Morgan Stanley Brian Morton 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 2 met price target	52% upside $64	Overweight Maintained	11 Mar 2025