WestRock Co. (WRK): Price and Financial Metrics

WRK POWR Grades

• WRK scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 90.34% of US stocks.
• WRK's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 178 days.
• WRK ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 44th percentile.

WRK Stock Summary

• WRK's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 186.52 -- higher than 87.8% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• WRK's price/sales ratio is 0.45; that's higher than the P/S ratio of only 14.45% of US stocks.
• WESTROCK CO's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 13.66%, greater than the shareholder yield of 88.03% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to WRK, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are SWK, FOXA, CR, CNDT, and TKR.
• Visit WRK's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.westrock.com.

WRK Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, WRK's price/sales ratio is 72.22% lower, now standing at 0.5.
• Over the past 90 months, WRK's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WRK.

WRK Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at -10.61%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -43.74%.
• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -11.9%.

WRK's revenue has moved up $2,655,500,000 over the prior 33 months.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	20,944.5	2,157.6	923.8
2022-03-31	20,241.1	2,071	796
2021-12-31	19,296.8	1,813.3	868.6
2021-09-30	18,746.1	2,279.9	838.3
2021-06-30	18,127.1	2,334.1	-641.4
2021-03-31	17,547.1	2,323.5	-713

WRK'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.

• WRK has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 55.47% of graded US stocks.
• WRK's asset turnover comes in at 0.625 -- ranking 10th of 11 Shipping Containers stocks.
• SON, GEF, and PKG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WRK.

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