Westlake Corp (WLK)

• Market cap: $11.8B
• 1 day: 1.69%
• 5 days: 6.09%
• 1 month: -14.71%
• 3 months: -22.13%
• 6 months: -34.48%
• Year to date: -18.09%
• 1 year: -38.19%
• 5 years: 125.23%
• 10 years: 20.18%
• Sector: Materials
• Industry: Specialty Chemicals

About: Westlake Corp is a manufacturer and supplier of chemicals, polymers, and building products. Its Performance and Essential Materials segment offers a wide range of essential building blocks for making products utilized in everyday living, including olefins, vinyl chemicals, polyethylene, and epoxies. Its Housing and Infrastructure Products segment produces key finished goods for building products, pipe and fittings, and global compounds businesses.

Employees: 15,540

Fund manager confidence

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

50% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 3 (+1) [Q4]

12% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 142 | Existing positions reduced: 127

1.47% more ownership

Funds ownership: 25.83% [Q3] → 27.3% (+1.47%) [Q4]

6% less funds holding

Funds holding: 398 [Q3] → 373 (-25) [Q4]

19% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $4.99B [Q3] → $4.03B (-$962M) [Q4]

28% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 48 | Existing positions closed: 67

79% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $14.2M | Put options by funds: $67.6M

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $103 12% upside
• Avg. target: $120 31% upside
• High target: $135 47% upside

11 analyst ratings

• positive: 7 64%
• neutral: 4 36%
• negative: 0 0%

B of A Securities Steve Byrne 50% 1-year accuracy 13 / 26 met price target	12% upside $103	Buy Maintained	15 Apr 2025
Truist Securities Peter Osterland 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 13 met price target	44% upside $132	Buy Maintained	14 Apr 2025
Wells Fargo Michael Sison 25% 1-year accuracy 13 / 53 met price target	20% upside $110	Overweight Maintained	9 Apr 2025
UBS Joshua Spector 29% 1-year accuracy 15 / 52 met price target	38% upside $127	Buy Maintained	7 Apr 2025
Piper Sandler Charles Neivert 36% 1-year accuracy 14 / 39 met price target	14% upside $105	Neutral Maintained	7 Apr 2025