With 1.11 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.19 million shares. During the session, the Specialty Chemicals company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $75.565 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $74.07. The 52-week range on WLK shows that it touched its highest point at $153.34 and its lowest point at $68.55 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $88.62. With its current market cap of 9.61 billion, WLK has annualized dividend of $2.10 while the current yield stands at 2.80%. WLK paid its most recent dividend on 1747699200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747699200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.90.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of WLK was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.28%, but this was up by 4.73% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -25.60% while six-month performance fell -33.89%. The stock lost -34.66% in the past year, while it has lost -49.37% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WLK yields 2.97 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.10. For the next quarter, that number is 0.21. This implies an EPS growth rate of -80.04% for this year and 293.80% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.93% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 7.33%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 128.24 million WLK shares are outstanding with a float of 32.95 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 2.83 million, which was 221.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Albert Yuan Chao as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. James Y. Chao serves as its Senior Chairman.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.28809 of WLK’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-03-31, WLK reported revenue of $2846000000.0 and operating income of -$25000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $295000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WLK since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With WLK analysts setting a high price target of 101.0 and a low target of 75.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 87.71429. Based on these targets, WLK could surge 34.83% to reach the target high and rise by 0.12% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 17.09% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $7.15881 being high and $5.67016 being low. For WLK, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $6.14425.
