Westlake Corp
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 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
30% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 146 | Existing positions reduced: 112
0.71% more ownership
Funds ownership: 27.3% [Q4 2024] → 28.01% (+0.71%) [Q1 2025]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q4 2024] → 3 (+0) [Q1 2025]
5% less funds holding
Funds holding: 374 [Q4 2024] → 356 (-18) [Q1 2025]
11% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $4.03B [Q4 2024] → $3.59B (-$438M) [Q1 2025]
24% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 47 | Existing positions closed: 62
96% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $2.95M | Put options by funds: $68.4M
Research analyst outlook
14 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
14 analyst ratings
Mizuho John Roberts | 8%upside $82 | Outperform Maintained | 2 Jun 2025 |
Truist Securities Peter Osterland | 21%upside $92 | Buy Maintained | 30 May 2025 |
Citigroup Patrick Cunningham | 12%upside $85 | Buy Maintained | 28 May 2025 |
RBC Capital Arun Viswanathan | 15%upside $88 | Outperform Maintained | 28 May 2025 |
UBS Joshua Spector | 32%upside $101 | Buy Maintained | 28 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 5 articles about WLK published over the past 30 days









