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 19, 2026, SW stock price declined to $49.78 with 6,345,112 million shares trading.

SW has a beta of 0.94, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SW has a correlation of 0.16 to the broad based SPY ETF.

SW has a market cap of $25.98 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, IVV, SPY.

SW has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -6.8%, while SPY returned +13.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in SW shares. However, SW has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +48.5% and +13.2%, while SPY returned +4.0% and -0.2%, respectively. This indicates SW has been having a stronger performance recently.

SW support price is $50.48 and resistance is $53.20 (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.