WLK Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Westlake | NYSE:WLK)

Westlake Corp is a manufacturer and supplier of chemicals, polymers, and building products. Its Performance and Essential Materials segment offers a wide range of essential building blocks for making products utilized in everyday living, including olefins, vinyl chemicals, polyethylene, and epoxies. Its Housing and Infrastructure Products segment produces key finished goods for building products, pipe and fittings, and global compounds businesses.

Westlake trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WLK.

As of December 23, 2025, WLK stock price declined to $72.90 with 461,110 million shares trading.

WLK has a beta of 1.21, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. WLK has a correlation of 0.22 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WLK has a market cap of $9.37 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Westlake reported $3 billion in Revenue and -$.29 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-108 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.50.

In the last 3 years, WLK traded as high as $162.64 and as low as $56.33.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WLK belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, PAVE, VB, REGL.

WLK has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -33.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.5%. In the last 3 month period, WLK fell short of the market, returning -9.6%, while SPY returned +3.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks WLK has outperformed the stock market by returning +7.8%, while SPY returned +0.8%.

WLK support price is $72.16 and resistance is $76.62 (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 WLK shares will trade within this expected range on the day.