Westlake Corporation (WLK)

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Westlake Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Westlake Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.1 billion in fiscal 2016 to $11 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.2% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 29% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Westlake Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 22% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Westlake Corporation lost about 17 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 4 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 56 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Westlake Corporation's standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 7% by size; a net margin of -13.5% ranks in the bottom 48%; revenue growth of -10.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 34% (its annual reports).

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Westlake Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gilson, Jean-Marc (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-07-15, 2.3 years (bottom 44% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 30%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-14, against the 22 people in charge now (top 35%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Westlake Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $2.7 billion against debt of $5.1 billion leaves -11.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 40% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4.7% of revenue (top 47%); a gross margin of 7.3% (bottom 42%) (its annual report).

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Westlake Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -10.9% a year over the last three filed years against 9.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 18% of its family); the newest year grew -8% (bottom 45%); capital spending grew -3.5% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). Westlake Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Performance and Essential Materials at $7.0 billion, Housing and Infrastructure Products at $4.1 billion. 0 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 63% of revenue (its annual report).

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Westlake Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $11 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.9% above the $11 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 34% of its family); net income of $1.5 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.1 billion (bottom 13%); a net margin of -13.5% against 7.7% before (bottom 18%) (its annual reports).