CLW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Clearwater Paper | NYSE:CLW)

Clearwater Paper Corp is engaged in the manufacturing and supplier of Solid Bleached Sulfate (SBS) paperboard packaging products. The company products includes: SBS paperboard which is a premium paperboard grade that is frequently used to produce folding cartons, food service, commercial printing items. It generates maximum revenue from Pulp and Paperboard segment. Company operate in United States and have globalized access too. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the United States.

Clearwater Paper trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CLW.

As of August 18, 2026, CLW stock price climbed to $20.73 with 52,872 million shares trading.

CLW has a beta of 0.94, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CLW has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CLW has a market cap of $334.28 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Clearwater Paper reported $375 million in Revenue and -$1.75 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-3,030 and missed earnings estimates by -$.20.

In the last 3 years, CLW traded as high as $57.13 and as low as $11.73.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CLW belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, FNDA, VXF, AVUV.

CLW has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -3.8% while the SPY ETF gained +20.6%. However, in the short term, CLW had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +56.5% vs +4.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CLW shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.7% compared to an SPY return of +1.5%.

CLW support price is $20.05 and resistance is $21.21 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CLW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.