Westlake WLK Return on equity
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Westlake’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Westlake’s 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Westlake's return on equity?
- Westlake (WLK) reported return on equity of -17.3% in Q1 2026.
- How has Westlake's return on equity changed year-over-year?
- Westlake's return on equity decreased by 561.6% year-over-year, from 3.7% to -17.3%.
- What is the long-term trend for Westlake's return on equity?
- Over 4 years (2020 to 2025), Westlake's return on equity has grown at a 29.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 5.5% to -15.6%.
- What does return on equity mean?
- How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
- How do you interpret return on equity?
- Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
- How does return on equity compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.