Westlake Corporation (WLK) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Westlake Corporation (WLK): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Westlake Corporation
Westlake Corporation manufactures and markets performance and essential materials, and housing and infrastructure products in the United States, Canada, Germany, China, Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Performance and Essential Materials and The Housing and Infrastructure Products. The Performance and Essential Materials segment offers ethylene, polyethylene, chlor-alkali, chlorinated derivative products, ethylene dichloride, vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), epoxy specialty resins, and base epoxy resins and intermediaries. The Housing and Infrastructure Products segment provides residential PVC sidings; PVC trim and mouldings; architectural stone veneers; windows; PVC decking; polymer composite and cement roof tiles; PVC pipes and fittings for various water, sewer, electrical, and industrial applications; and PVC compounds for various housing, medical, and automobile products. This segment also offers consumer and commercial products, such as landscape edging; industrial, home, and office matting; marine dock edging; and masonry joint controls.
Sector: Basic Materials · Industry: Specialty Chemicals · United States · 14,600 employees · westlake.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Westlake Corporation (WLK) had a market capitalization of $9.56B (forward 22.2), a dividend yield of 2.86% and a beta of 0.63; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $56.33 – $124.23 (-16.6% over the year).
- Market cap
- $9.56B
- Enterprise value
- $14.08B
- Forward P/E
- 22.2
- PEG ratio
- 1.70
- Price / book
- 1.10
- EPS (trailing)
- $-9.60
- EPS (forward)
- $3.36
- Dividend yield
- 2.86%
- Payout ratio
- 69.4%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-25
- 52-week range
- $56.33 – $124.23
- 52-week change
- -16.6%
- Beta
- 0.63
- Average volume
- 1.1M
- Shares outstanding
- 127.8M
- Short % of float
- 15.16%
- Profit margin
- -10.9%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Westlake Corporation (WLK) last closed at $71.62 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 37 (neutral territory), price -5.8% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +0.3%, MACD histogram -0.44.
Sentiment inputs: 50% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 83% bullish; analyst consensus score 62/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 48 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of WLK; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 2 sells (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-08-11). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Albert Chao (0B/2S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
WLK has been a daily pick 1 time; 0 of 1 graded picks beat SPY over the following five trading days. Most recent: 2026-06-18, rank #3, -2.18% versus SPY (lagged). Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Westlake Corporation (WLK) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell WLK.
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