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

Westlake Corp is a vertically integrated international manufacturer and marketer of both housing and infrastructure products and performance and essential materials that are designed to enhance the lives of people every day. 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 international compounds businesses.

What symbol and exchange does Westlake shares trade?

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

What is Westlake stock price doing today?

As of May 1, 2026, WLK stock price declined to $114.99 with 993,278 million shares trading.

What is Westlake's Beta?

WLK has a beta of 0.35, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WLK has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is Westlake worth?

WLK has a market cap of $14.77 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

How much money does Westlake make?

Last quarter Westlake reported $3 billion in Revenue and -$.25 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-60 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.21.

What is the highest and lowest price Westlake traded in the last 3 year period?

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

What are the top ETFs holding Westlake?

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

Is Westlake (WLK) a good investment?

WLK has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +26.9%, while SPY returned +30.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WLK shares. However, WLK has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +45.6% and +2.1%, while SPY returned +4.4% and +1.5%, respectively. This indicates WLK has been having a stronger performance recently.

What are the support and resistance levels for Westlake (WLK)?

WLK support price is $112.12 and resistance is $118.44 (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.