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Westlake Chemical Corp

Westlake Chemical Corp primarily operates in the chemical sector. The global chemical companies gained around 72 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 20 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 72 percent.

The past year yielded positive returns for Westlake Chemical Corp investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in Westlake Chemical Corp, the stock gained around 6 percent. Over the past 5 years Westlake Chemical Corp' stock rose at around 197 percent in value. Westlake Chemical Corp's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were relatively stable and moved between 3,57 billion dollars and 4,46 billion dollars. Westlake Chemical Corp's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 258,97 million dollars and 665,05 million dollars.

Westlake Chemical Corp paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the Westlake Chemical Corp stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 3,7 percent over the past 5 years. Westlake Chemical Corp raised it's dividends per share each year in the past 5 years. Based on the raising dividend payments Westlake Chemical Corp can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Healthy financed: not so much debt Westlake Chemical Corp

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of around 5,58 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 2,31 billion dollars. This is around 41,42 percent of the total balance sheet. Last year the chemical company's price/earnings-ratio (PE) was around 13. So the investors valued the stock at 13 times 2015' earnings per share. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the American company's market capitalization equaled around 6,99 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 131,82 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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