WST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (West Pharmaceutical Servs | NYSE:WST)

West Pharmaceutical Services is based in Pennsylvania and is a key supplier to firms in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and generic drug industries. West sells elastomer-based packaging components (including stoppers, seals, and plungers), nonglass containment solutions, and auto-injectors for injectable drugs, which include large-molecule biologics, peptides such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, and small-molecule drugs. The company reports in two segments: proprietary products (about 80% of total revenue) and contract-manufactured products (about 20% of total revenue). It generates approximately 55% of its revenue from international markets and 45% from the United States.

West Pharmaceutical Servs trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WST.

As of January 2, 2026, WST stock price climbed to $276.23 with 409,782 million shares trading.

WST has a beta of 0.82, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WST has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WST has a market cap of $19.87 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter West Pharmaceutical Servs reported $805 million in Revenue and $1.96 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $18 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.28.

In the last 3 years, WST traded as high as $415.73 and as low as $187.43.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, VUG, IVV.

WST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -15.4%, while SPY returned +17.6%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in WST shares. However, WST has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.4% and +2.6%, while SPY returned +2.7% and +1.9%, respectively. This indicates WST has been having a stronger performance recently.

WST support price is $270.48 and resistance is $279.80 (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 WST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.