WRK - Westrock Co Stock Price, Fair Value and News

46.81USD-0.67 (-1.41%)Market Closed

Market Summary

USD46.81-0.67

Market Closed

-1.41%

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WRK Valuation

Market Cap

12.0B

Price/Earnings (Trailing)

-7.01

Price/Sales (Trailing)

0.6

EV/EBITDA

-85.13

Price/Free Cashflow

6.55

WRK Price/Sales (Trailing)

WRK Profitability

EBT Margin

-8.88%

Return on Equity

-16.92%

Return on Assets

-6.42%

Free Cashflow Yield

15.27%

WRK Fundamentals

WRK Revenue

Revenue (TTM)

20.0B

Rev. Growth (Yr)

-6.16%

Rev. Growth (Qtr)

-7.38%

WRK Earnings

Earnings (TTM)

-1.7B

Earnings Growth (Yr)

-149.45%

Earnings Growth (Qtr)

-120.4%

Breaking Down WRK Revenue

Last 7 days

0.5%

Last 30 days

-2.5%

Last 90 days

11.9%

Trailing 12 Months

60.9%

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WRK Financial Health

Current Ratio

1.55

Debt/Equity

0.81

Debt/Cashflow

0.22

WRK Investor Care

Dividend Yield

2.41%

Dividend/Share (TTM)

1.13

Shares Dilution (1Y)

0.91%

Diluted EPS (TTM)

-6.71

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Net sales

Year	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
2023	21.1B	20.7B	20.3B	20.0B
2022	20.2B	20.9B	21.3B	21.2B
2021	17.5B	18.1B	18.7B	19.3B
2020	18.2B	17.8B	17.6B	17.6B
2019	17.3B	17.9B	18.3B	18.4B
2018	15.7B	16.1B	16.3B	16.7B
2017	14.5B	14.7B	14.9B	15.3B
2016	0	0	14.2B	14.3B

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Tracking the Latest Insider Buys and Sells of Westrock Co

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Datesorted ascending	Name	Buy/Sell	$ Value	Avg. Price	# Shares	Title
Mar 13, 2024	russell currey m	gifted	-	-	-21,500	-
Feb 19, 2024	o'neal john l	sold (taxes)	-27,187	43.71	-622	president, global paper
Feb 19, 2024	sewell david b	acquired	-	-	34,734	chief executive officer & pres
Feb 19, 2024	kivits patrick m.	acquired	-	-	4,659	president, corrugated pkg
Feb 19, 2024	sewell david b	sold (taxes)	-684,717	43.71	-15,665	chief executive officer & pres
Feb 19, 2024	stigers thomas	acquired	-	-	5,371	president, mill operations
Feb 19, 2024	lostetter vicki l	sold (taxes)	-63,466	43.71	-1,452	chief human resources officer
Feb 19, 2024	o'neal john l	acquired	-	-	2,065	president, global paper
Feb 19, 2024	stigers thomas	sold (taxes)	-70,679	43.71	-1,617	president, mill operations
Feb 19, 2024	mcconnell julia ann	sold (taxes)	-26,400	43.71	-604	svp & chief accounting officer

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Datesorted ascending	Fund Name	Type	% Chg	$ Change	$ Held	% Portfolio
Apr 24, 2024	Hedges Asset Management LLC	reduced	-13.19	25,646	781,310	0.55%
Apr 24, 2024	BROWN ADVISORY INC	added	4.62	50,169	254,074	-%
Apr 24, 2024	DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale	reduced	-44.64	-630,000	1,156,000	-%
Apr 24, 2024	Assenagon Asset Management S.A.	reduced	-99.11	-36,357,600	390,111	-%
Apr 24, 2024	Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC	reduced	-6.06	2,279	21,461	-%
Apr 24, 2024	Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc.	reduced	-4.13	326,000	2,619,000	0.01%
Apr 24, 2024	NBT BANK N A /NY	unchanged	-	2,823	17,604	-%
Apr 24, 2024	Hartford Financial Management Inc.	reduced	-1.42	124,526	839,760	0.18%
Apr 24, 2024	Newbridge Financial Services Group, Inc.	added	82.00	24,240	45,000	0.02%
Apr 24, 2024	Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.	added	12.31	490,091	1,941,750	-%

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Unveiling Westrock Co's Major ShareHolders

Date Filed	Name of Filer	Percent of Class	No. of Shares	Form Type
Feb 13, 2024	vanguard group inc	12.11%	31,052,296	SC 13G/A
Jan 24, 2024	blackrock inc.	9.8%	25,049,401	SC 13G/A
Jan 03, 2024	greenhaven associates inc	5.2%	13,410,621	SC 13G/A
Jun 16, 2023	greenhaven associates inc	5.31%	13,591,170	SC 13G
Apr 06, 2023	blackrock inc.	10.4%	26,528,164	SC 13G/A
Feb 14, 2023	price t rowe associates inc /md/	2.3%	5,859,186	SC 13G/A
Feb 09, 2023	vanguard group inc	12.15%	30,927,175	SC 13G/A
Feb 03, 2023	state street corp	4.11%	10,459,737	SC 13G/A
Jan 24, 2023	blackrock inc.	9.5%	24,208,091	SC 13G/A
Mar 11, 2022	blackrock inc.	7.9%	20,873,962	SC 13G/A

Recent SEC filings of Westrock Co

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Date Filed	Form Type	Document
Apr 03, 2024	425	Prospectus Filed
Mar 13, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Mar 13, 2024	425	Prospectus Filed
Mar 13, 2024	425	Prospectus Filed
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading
Feb 21, 2024	4	Insider Trading

Peers (Alternatives to Westrock Co)

Name	Mkt Capsorted ascending	Revenue	Price %, 1M	Returns, 1Y	P/E	P/S	Rev 1-Yr	Inc 1-Yr
LARGE-CAP
AVY	17.5B	8.4B	-2.26%	24.33%	34.76	2.09	-7.47%	-33.56%
PKG	15.3B	7.8B	-7.14%	29.43%	20.06	1.97	-7.97%	-25.69%
AMCR	13.0B	14.0B	-2.48%	-16.27%	20.14	0.92	-6.26%	-39.85%
IP	11.6B	18.9B	-15.72%	-0.75%	40.31	0.61	-10.61%	-80.85%
MID-CAP
CCK	9.6B	12.0B	1.85%	-3.01%	20.28	0.8	-7.21%	-37.42%
GPK	8.4B	9.4B	-4.33%	12.65%	11.56	0.89	-0.13%	38.51%
REYN	6.0B	3.8B	1.34%	3.72%	20.23	1.61	-1.61%	15.50%
SLGN	5.0B	6.0B	4.02%	-11.39%	15.46	0.84	-6.60%	-4.37%
SEE	4.5B	5.5B	-11.15%	-31.57%	13.26	0.83	-2.71%	-30.51%
OI	2.3B	7.1B	-4.24%	-29.26%	-22.19	0.32	3.63%	-117.64%
SMALL-CAP
TRS	1.1B	893.5M	1.15%	0.50%	26.37	1.19	1.10%	-39.01%
MYE	812.2M	813.1M	-5.17%	14.52%	16.62	1	-9.61%	-18.92%
PACK	601.3M	336.3M	-3.79%	85.64%	-22.19	1.79	3.00%	34.54%
TUP	48.4M	1.1B	-29.66%	-9.73%	-0.12	0.04	-17.21%	-907.42%
DSS	12.4M	30.3M	-2.70%	-57.65%	-0.15	0.41	-36.04%	-34.70%

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Income Statement (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Income Statement (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Revenue	-7.4%	4,620	4,988	5,121	5,278	4,923	5,403	5,520	5,382	4,952	5,091	4,816	4,438	4,402	4,472	4,236	4,447	4,424	4,652	4,690	4,620	4,327
Gross Profit	-13.5%	759	877	1,022	920	766	1,059	1,159	1,004	797	993	930	750	753	813	770	805	809	1,079	989	900	782
EBITDA Margin	-39.7%	-0.01*	-0.01*	0.02*	0.04*	0.14*	0.14*	0.15*	0.14*	0.15*	0.15*	0.08*	0.07*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Interest Expenses	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	38.00	133	42.00	144	47.00	151	53.00	163	47.00	178	25.00
Income Taxes	129.7%	6.00	-19.20	67.00	-116	8.00	77.00	133	2.00	59.00	85.00	77.00	31.00	50.00	40.00	19.00	58.00	47.00	89.00	78.00	47.00	63.00
Earnings Before Taxes	-118.6%	-17.00	92.00	270	-2,121	55.00	421	513	43.00	242	410	328	145	203	-1,114	199	207	186	402	331	209	203
EBT Margin	-5.8%	-0.09*	-0.08*	-0.07*	-0.05*	0.05*	0.06*	0.06*	0.05*	0.06*	0.06*	-0.02*	-0.03*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Net Income	-120.4%	-22.40	110	202	-2,006	45.00	345	378	40.00	182	324	250	113	152	-1,156	179	148	139	311	253	160	139
Net Income Margin	-5.7%	-0.09*	-0.08*	-0.07*	-0.06*	0.04*	0.04*	0.04*	0.04*	0.05*	0.04*	-0.04*	-0.04*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Free Cashflow	-52.9%	275	584	694	284	266	540	837	390	253	678	751	132	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Balance Sheet

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Balance Sheet																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Assets	-2.5%	26,746	27,444	28,149	28,210	30,342	28,406	28,886	29,206	29,083	29,254	29,414	28,972	28,836	28,780	30,278	30,960	30,937	30,157	30,812	30,693	30,667
Current Assets	-12.1%	6,146	6,993	7,448	7,598	7,580	5,985	6,005	5,986	5,568	5,660	5,724	5,385	4,864	4,945	5,006	5,492	4,953	4,974	5,194	5,214	5,226
Cash Equivalents	24.1%	488	393	315	363	415	260	305	360	291	291	550	334	254	251	292	640	156	152	179	154	261
Inventory	2.6%	2,391	2,332	2,549	2,550	2,571	2,317	2,301	2,234	2,241	2,173	2,146	2,091	2,085	2,023	2,138	2,125	2,190	2,108	2,074	2,097	2,102
Net PPE	1.5%	11,230	11,063	11,263	11,163	11,399	10,081	10,058	10,237	10,482	10,570	10,631	10,573	10,784	10,779	10,923	11,036	11,281	11,190	11,169	11,029	10,970
Goodwill	0.5%	4,270	4,249	4,266	4,253	6,073	5,895	5,929	5,969	5,955	5,959	5,983	5,959	5,997	5,962	7,271	7,264	7,327	7,286	7,322	7,301	7,320
Current Liabilities	-19.3%	3,969	4,919	5,004	4,968	5,012	3,903	4,111	3,912	3,556	3,644	3,844	3,553	3,049	2,929	2,787	3,140	3,447	3,435	3,591	4,047	3,730
Long Term Debt	2.3%	8,236	8,051	8,608	9,004	8,966	7,575	7,635	7,954	7,996	8,025	8,107	8,393	8,771	9,208	9,840	10,425	9,649	9,502	9,759	9,373	9,728
Shareholder's Equity	0.7%	10,148	10,081	10,008	9,643	11,535	3.00	11,458	19.00	20.00	11,670	11,451	11,058	10,949	10,631	11,713	16.00	11,825	1,997	11,828	3.00	10,721
Retained Earnings	-36.6%	177	278	240	110	2,188	2,214	1,934	1,663	1,711	1,608	1,371	1,186	1,126	1,032	2,240	2,114	2,088	1,997	1,805	1,671	1,635
Additional Paid-In Capital	0.1%	10,710	10,699	10,685	10,649	10,653	10,639	10,616	10,794	10,996	11,059	11,118	11,058	10,949	10,916	10,858	10,784	10,770	10,739	10,715	10,693	10,721
Shares Outstanding	0.2%	257	256	256	256	255	254	261	263	265	265	265	265	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minority Interest	-1.2%	17.00	17.00	17.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	19.00	19.00	20.00	20.00	19.00	18.00	17.00	17.00	17.00	16.00	15.00	14.00	14.00	13.00	12.00
Float	-	-	-	-	7,769	-	-	-	12,163	-	-	-	13,705	-	-	-	7,220	-	-	-	9,706	-

Cashflow (Last 12 Months)

(In Millions)

(*) denotes actual numbers (not divided by Millions)
Cashflow (Quarterly)																					(In Millions)
Description	(%) Q/Q	2023Q4	2023Q3	2023Q2	2023Q1	2022Q4	2022Q3	2022Q2	2022Q1	2021Q4	2021Q3	2021Q2	2021Q1	2020Q4	2020Q3	2020Q2	2020Q1	2019Q4	2019Q3	2019Q2	2019Q1	2018Q4
Cashflow From Operations	-52.9%	275	584	694	284	266	540	837	390	253	678	751	132	719	732	740	168	431	911	735	362	303
Share Based Compensation	-15.1%	7.00	9.00	33.00	14.00	10.00	19.00	35.00	25.00	15.00	14.00	23.00	31.00	20.00	32.00	69.00	16.00	14.00	13.00	16.00	18.00	17.00
Cashflow From Investing	4125.7%	625	15.00	-178	-263	-1,080	-261	-207	-151	-154	-290	-190	-54.80	-140	-96.10	-236	-228	-360	-378	-350	-277	-3,572
Cashflow From Financing	-51.8%	-804	-529	-571	-75.30	983	-315	-678	-183	-104	-639	-356	-0.50	-584	-669	-859	568	-61.30	-559	-365	-191	2,897
Dividend Payments	10.1%	78.00	71.00	71.00	70.00	70.00	64.00	64.00	66.00	66.00	64.00	64.00	53.00	53.00	52.00	52.00	121	120	117	117	118	116
Buy Backs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	290	210	100	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	44.00	44.00

WRK Income Statement

2023-12-31

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022
Income Statement [Abstract]
Net sales	$ 4,620.0	$ 4,923.1
Cost of goods sold	3,861.2	4,157.1
Gross profit	758.8	766.0
Selling, general and administrative expense excluding intangible amortization	527.1	479.1
Selling, general and administrative intangible amortization expense	82.0	86.6
Restructuring and other costs, net	65.5	32.1
Operating profit	84.2	168.2
Interest expense, net	(101.4)	(97.3)
Pension and other postretirement non-service income (cost)	0.2	(5.0)
Other (expense) income, net	(4.7)	25.2
Equity in income (loss) of unconsolidated entities	4.2	(36.0)
Gain on sale of RTS and Chattanooga	0.5
(Loss) income before income taxes	(17.0)	55.1
Income tax expense	(5.7)	(8.3)
Consolidated net (loss) income	(22.7)	46.8
Less: Net loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interests	0.3	(1.5)
Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders	$ (22.4)	$ 45.3
Basic (loss) earnings per share attributable to common stockholders	$ (0.09)	$ 0.18
Diluted (loss) earnings per share attributable to common stockholders	$ (0.09)	$ 0.18
Basic weighted average shares outstanding	257.0	254.7
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding	257.0	256.7

WRK Balance Sheet

2023-12-31

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - USD ($)
$ in Millions

Dec. 31, 2023

Sep. 30, 2023

Current assets:

Cash and cash equivalents

$ 488.1

$ 393.4

Accounts receivable (net of allowances of $58.6 and $60.2)

2,439.9

2,591.9

Inventories

2,391.3

2,331.5

Other current assets (amount related to SPEs of $0 and $862.1)

739.2

1,584.8

Assets held for sale

87.6

91.5

Total current assets

6,146.1

6,993.1

Property, plant and equipment, net

11,230.2

11,063.2

Goodwill

4,270.2

4,248.7

Intangibles, net

2,507.3

2,576.2

Prepaid pension asset

629.5

618.3

Other noncurrent assets (amount related to SPEs of $383.5 and $382.7)

1,962.9

1,944.2

Total Assets

26,746.2

27,443.7

Current liabilities:

Current portion of debt

462.3

533.0

Accounts payable

2,159.2

2,123.9

Accrued compensation and benefits

415.4

524.9

Other current liabilities (amount related to SPEs of $0 and $776.7)

931.9

1,737.6

Total current liabilities

3,968.8

4,919.4

Long-term debt due after one year

8,235.9

8,050.9

Pension liabilities, net of current portion

194.7

191.2

Postretirement benefit liabilities, net of current portion

100.9

99.1

Deferred income taxes

2,254.4

2,433.2

Other noncurrent liabilities (amount related to SPEs of $330.7 and $330.2)

1,826.9

1,652.2

Commitments and contingencies (Note 16)

Equity:

Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 30.0 million shares authorized; no shares outstanding

0.0

Common Stock, $0.01 par value; 600.0 million shares authorized; 257.0 million and 256.4 million shares outstanding at December 31, 2023 and September 30, 2023, respectively

2.6

Capital in excess of par value

10,710.2

10,698.5

Retained earnings

176.5

278.2

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

^[1]

(741.5)

(898.6)

Total stockholders’ equity

10,147.8

10,080.7

Noncontrolling interests

16.8

17.0

Total equity

10,164.6

10,097.7

Total Liabilities and Equity

$ 26,746.2

$ 27,443.7

[1]	All amounts are net of tax and noncontrolling interests.

About Westrock Co

WestRock Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides fiber-based paper and packaging solutions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It operates in four segments, Corrugated Packaging, Consumer Packaging, Global Paper, and Distribution. The Corrugated Packaging segment produces containerboards, corrugated sheets, corrugated packaging, and preprinted linerboards to consumer and industrial products manufacturers, and corrugated box manufacturers. It also provides structural and graphic design, engineering services and custom, and proprietary and standard automated packaging machines, as well as turn-key installation, automation, line integration, and packaging solutions; and pack temporary displays, as well as lithographic laminated packaging products. The Consumer Packaging segment manufactures and sells folding cartons that are used to package food, paper, beverages, dairy products, tobacco, confectionery, health and beauty, other household consumer products; and express mail packages for the overnight courier industry. It also offers inserts and labels, as well as rigid packaging and other printed packaging products, such as transaction cards, brochures, product literature, marketing materials, and grower tags, and plant stakes; and secondary packages and paperboard packaging for over-the-counter and prescription drugs. In addition, this segment manufactures and sells solid fiber and corrugated partitions, and die-cut paperboard components. The Global Paper segment manufactures containerboard, paperboard, and specialty grades primarily to corrugated packaging, folding carton, food service, liquid packaging, tobacco, and commercial print markets. The Distribution segment distributes corrugated packaging materials and other specialty packaging products, including stretch films, void fills, carton sealing tapes, and other specialty tapes; and provides contract packing services. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

CEO	Mr. David B. Sewell
WEBSITE	westrock.com
INDUSTRY	Packers
EMPLOYEES	50500

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You can check WRK's fair value in chart for subscribers. The fair value of Westrock Co is provided for various growth and macro-economic scenarios from very pessimiatic to very optimistic assumptions. These fair values are estimates from Grufity's Fair Value model based on company's past performance. However, past performance of Westrock Co is no guarantee of future performance. These fairvalue estimates should only be used as one of the inputs in your stock analysis. We provide model's historical fair value estimates for WRK so that you know how good or bad the model has been in the past so you can discard it if needed. There are others that provide fair values of stocks such as wallmine, finbox, gurufocus and finviz. Most provide point in time estimates. We provide a history of our models fair value estimates so that you can get a sense of it's usefulness. Otherwise this data point is of little use.

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The fair value guage provides a quick view whether WRK is over valued or under valued. Whether Westrock Co is cheap or expensive depends on the assumptions which impact Westrock Co's fair value. We provide several scenarios of inflation and growth to encompass these range of assumptions for WRK.

What is Westrock Co's Price to Earnings (PE) and Price to sales (PS) ratio?

As of Wed Apr 24 2024, WRK's PE ratio (Price to Earnings) is -7.11 and Price to Sales (PS) ratio is 0.61. The price to earnings and price to sales ratio are two most important valuation metrics for any company. PE ratio tell us the number of years of earnings investors are ready to pay for owning the company. Historically, S&P500 price to earnings ratio has fallen below 12 during periods of gloom and gone past 30 during periods of euphoria. WRK PE ratio will change depending on the future growth rate expectations of investors.