Westlake Corp (WLK)

• Market cap: $11.2B
• 1 day: -0.84%
• 5 days: 1.78%
• 1 month: 4.42%
• 3 months: 18.73%
• 6 months: -19.25%
• Year to date: -22.45%
• 1 year: -39.24%
• 5 years: 26.97%
• 10 years: 68.85%
• 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 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

20% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 124 | Existing positions reduced: 103

2.63% more ownership

Funds ownership: 28.02% [Q1] → 30.64% (+2.63%) [Q2]

15% less funds holding

Funds holding: 356 [Q1] → 303 (-53) [Q2]

17% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $3.59B [Q1] → $2.99B (-$605M) [Q2]

33% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q1] → 2 (-1) [Q2]

51% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 46 | Existing positions closed: 93

66% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $19.5M | Put options by funds: $58.1M

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $73
• Avg. target: $91
• High target: $99

9 analyst ratings

• positive: 5 56%
• neutral: 4 44%
• negative: 0 0%

JP Morgan Jeffrey Zekauskas	$73	Neutral Maintained	12 Aug 2025
Morgan Stanley Neel Kumar	$90	Equal-Weight Maintained	6 Aug 2025
BMO Capital Bhavesh Lodaya	$94	Market Perform Maintained	6 Aug 2025
Mizuho John Roberts	$98	Outperform Maintained	15 Jul 2025
Wells Fargo Michael Sison	$90	Equal-Weight Maintained	14 Jul 2025