SW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Smurfit Westrock PLC | NYSE:SW)

Smurfit WestRock manufactures corrugated packaging and consumer packaging, such as folding cartons and paperboard. After the merger of Smurfit Kappa and WestRock in summer 2024, Smurfit WestRock became the largest producer of containerboard in the world, with substantial operations in North America, South America, and Europe.

Smurfit Westrock PLC trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SW.

As of February 26, 2026, SW stock price climbed to $46.47 with 4,700,095 million shares trading.

SW has a beta of 0.92, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SW has a correlation of 0.15 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SW has a market cap of $24.26 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Smurfit Westrock PLC reported $8 billion in Revenue and $.34 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-14 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.15.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that SW belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VB, VBR, IVV.

SW has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -9.0% while the SPY ETF gained +17.2%. However, in the short term, SW had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +34.2% vs +2.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SW shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.7% compared to an SPY return of -0.4%.

SW support price is $44.55 and resistance is $47.40 (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 SW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.