Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK): Price and Financial Metrics

WLK POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where WLK ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.45% of US stocks.
• WLK's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 52 weeks.
• WLK's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 57.61% of US stocks).

WLK Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $13,170,018,355, Westlake Chemical Corp has a greater market value than 83.62% of US stocks.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Westlake Chemical Corp is higher than it is for about 84.49% of US stocks.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, Westlake Chemical Corp is reporting a growth rate of 161.78%; that's higher than 86.6% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Westlake Chemical Corp are TGNA, BALY, OUT, HLIO, and STNE.
• WLK's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Westlake Chemical Corp's official web site, go to www.westlake.com.

WLK Valuation Summary

• WLK's price/sales ratio is 1.2; this is 47.83% lower than that of the median Basic Materials stock.
• Over the past 208 months, WLK's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.6.
• WLK's price/earnings ratio has moved down 8.4 over the prior 208 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WLK.

WLK Growth Metrics

• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 131.99%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -20.68%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 80.61%.

Over the past 30 months, WLK's revenue has gone up $444,000,000.

The table below shows WLK's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	9,079	1,670	934
2021-03-31	7,929	1,501	427
2020-12-31	7,504	1,297	330
2020-09-30	7,422	1,199	289
2020-06-30	7,590	1,343	390
2020-03-31	8,025	1,215	494

WLK's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• WLK has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 74.07% of graded US stocks.
• WLK's asset turnover comes in at 0.645 -- ranking 43rd of 89 Chemicals stocks.
• EMN, ASIX, and AVNT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WLK.

The table below shows WLK's key quality metrics over time.