Westlake Corporation (WLK)
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About Westlake Corporation
Westlake Corporation manufactures and supplies petrochemicals, polymers, and building products worldwide. It operates through two segments, Performance and Essential Materials; and Housing and Infrastructure Products. The Performance and Essential Materials segment manufactures and markets polyethylene, styrene monomer, ethylene co-products, PVC, VCM, ethylene dichloride chlor-alkali, and chlorinated derivative products. The Housing and Infrastructure Products segment manufactures and sells residential PVC siding; PVC trim and moldings; roofing applications; decorative stone; windows; PVC decking; PVC films for various inflatables, wallcovering, tape, and roofing applications; polymer composite roof tiles; PVC pipe and fittings; PVC compounds; and various consumer and commercial products such as landscape edging; industrial, home and office matting; marine dock edging; and masonry joint controls. The company offers its products to a range of customers, including chemical processors, plastics fabricators, small construction contractors, municipalities, and supply warehouses for use in various consumer and industrial markets, including residential construction, flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, healthcare products, water treatment, and coatings, as well as other durable and non-durable goods. The company was formerly known as Westlake Chemical Corporation and changed its name to Westlake Corporation in February 2022. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Westlake Corporation is a subsidiary of TTWF LP.
Insider Activity of Westlake Corporation
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Westlake Corporation have bought $0 and sold $3.91M worth of Westlake Corporation stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Westlake Corporation have bought $25.19M and sold $8.25M worth of stock each year.
There was no buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months.
The last purchase of 3,000 shares for transaction amount of $258,630 was made by Chao Albert (President & CEO) on 2021‑08‑11.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Westlake Corporation
| 2024-05-09 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 3,500 0.0027% | $158.50 | $554,750 | -0.64% | |
| 2024-05-03 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP & CFO | 4,950 0.0039% | $152.19 | $753,341 | +2.55% | |
| 2024-03-15 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 3,878 0.003% | $144.50 | $560,371 | +4.38% | |
| 2024-03-13 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 122 <0.0001% | $144.50 | $17,629 | +6.13% | |
| 2024-03-06 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP & CFO | 4,804 0.0037% | $141.02 | $677,455 | +8.11% | |
| 2024-02-26 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP & CFO | 4,854 0.0038% | $137.57 | $667,765 | +9.91% | |
| 2023-11-15 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 4,215 0.0033% | $130.50 | $550,058 | +11.28% | |
| 2023-08-23 | Sale | Chao David Tsung-Hung | 1,000 0.0008% | $131.00 | $131,000 | +7.73% | ||
| 2022-08-31 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 1,000 0.0008% | $98.94 | $98,940 | +15.45% | |
| 2022-08-26 | Sale | Zoeller Johnathan Stevan | VP & Chief Accounting Officer | 542 0.0004% | $107.08 | $58,037 | +6.06% | |
| 2022-05-27 | Sale | Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 14,427 0.011% | $129.47 | $1.87M | -18.79% | |
| 2022-05-19 | Sale | Chao Albert | President & CEO | 12,016 0.0095% | $131.11 | $1.58M | -16.85% | |
| 2022-05-17 | Sale | Kearns Roger L. | COO and EVP - PEM | 8,388 0.0065% | $136.24 | $1.14M | -21.10% | |
| 2022-05-05 | Sale | Ederington L. Benjamin | EVP, GC, CAO and Secretary | 3,143 0.0025% | $139.26 | $437,694 | -22.52% | |
| 2022-03-31 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 5,921 0.0046% | $124.34 | $736,235 | -12.85% | |
| 2022-03-30 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 3,062 0.0024% | $125.10 | $383,044 | -13.80% | |
| 2022-03-29 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 4,000 0.0031% | $122.44 | $489,748 | -13.03% | |
| 2022-03-25 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 2,947 0.0023% | $125.74 | $370,559 | -15.53% | |
| 2022-03-25 | Sale | Kearns Roger L. | COO and EVP - PEM | 2,861 0.0022% | $126.40 | $361,636 | -15.53% | |
| 2022-03-24 | Sale | Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 8,000 0.0062% | $125.38 | $1M | -14.75% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| Bender Mark Steven | EVP and CFO | 40356 0.0241% | $146.60 | 0 | 34 | |
| Buesinger Robert F. | EVP, HIP, IT & Digital | 17644 0.0131% | $146.60 | 0 | 24 | |
| Chao David Tsung-Hung | 10148 0.0079% | $146.60 | 0 | 1 | ||
| TTWF LP | 10 percent owner | 46005277 35.9021% | $146.60 | 0 | 1 | |
| TTWFGP LLC | 10 percent owner | 1395000 1.0886% | $146.60 | 9 | 1 | +79.24% |
| Chao Albert | President & CEO | 498843 0.3893% | $146.60 | 2 | 25 | +55.75% |
| Jenkins Dorothy C | 67228 0.0525% | $146.60 | 1 | 2 | +94.76% | |
| Chao James | Chairman | 51492 0.0402% | $146.60 | 1 | 18 | +94.76% |
| Ederington L. Benjamin | EVP, GC, CAO and Secretary | 37418 0.0292% | $146.60 | 0 | 2 | |
| Kearns Roger L. | COO and EVP - PEM | 26389 0.0206% | $146.60 | 1 | 2 | +110.97% |
| Morse Wayne D | Sr VP, Vinyls | 26009 0.0203% | $146.60 | 1 | 7 | +94.76% |
| Wallace Stephen | VP, General Counsel, Secretary | 25163 0.0196% | $146.60 | 1 | 8 | +94.76% |
| RILEY H JOHN JR | director | 22652 0.0177% | $146.60 | 0 | 2 | |
| Taylor Jeffrey L | Sr VP, Polyethylene | 20206 0.0158% | $146.60 | 2 | 16 | +67.6% |
| Hansen David R | Sr VP Adminstration | 13440 0.0105% | $146.60 | 1 | 15 | +94.76% |
| Condon Donald Marion Jr | Sr VP, Corp Bus Dev | 13106 0.0102% | $146.60 | 0 | 5 | |
| Kenner Andrew | SVP - Chemical Manufacturing | 11437 0.0089% | $146.60 | 0 | 9 | |
| BARNETT E WILLIAM | director | 10559 0.0082% | $146.60 | 0 | 1 | |
| BLAKELY ROBERT T | director | 7662 0.006% | $146.60 | 0 | 8 | |
| Mattina Michael J. | Sr. VP, Polyethylene | 6063 0.0047% | $146.60 | 0 | 1 | |
| Teel Lawrence E. | EVP and Special Advisor to CEO | 4903 0.0038% | $146.60 | 0 | 6 | |
| LUKENS MAX L | director | 3280 0.0026% | $146.60 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wilder Warren W | Senior Vice President | 2244 0.0018% | $146.60 | 1 | 2 | +94.76% |
| Mangieri George J | SVP & Chief Accounting Officer | 1582 0.0012% | $146.60 | 0 | 28 | |
| Keng Tai Li | Vice President and Treasurer | 1000 0.0008% | $146.60 | 1 | 0 | +94.76% |
| Zoeller Johnathan Stevan | VP & Chief Accounting Officer | 543 0.0004% | $146.60 | 0 | 3 | |
| DREESSEN RUTH I | Sr V P - CFO | 67 0.0001% | $146.60 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| Fidelity Investments | $665.55M | 3.39 | 4.36M | +1.24% | +$8.16M | 0.05 | |
| BlackRock | $531.72M | 2.71 | 3.48M | -1.84% | -$9.98M | 0.01 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $513.71M | 2.62 | 3.36M | -0.75% | -$3.89M | 0.01 | |
| Victory Capital Management Inc | $490.37M | 2.5 | 3.21M | -1.72% | -$8.59M | 0.5 | |
| Orbis Allan Gray Ltd | $414.77M | 2.11 | 2.71M | -3.99% | -$17.24M | 2.49 | |
| Pacer Advisors Inc | $208.23M | 1.06 | 1.36M | +19.27% | +$33.64M | 0.53 | |
| Capital World Investors | $203.92M | 1.04 | 1.33M | +1.73% | +$3.48M | 0.03 | |
| State Street | $181.38M | 0.92 | 1.19M | -0.84% | -$1.54M | 0.01 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $148.13M | 0.75 | 969,423 | -5.52% | -$8.66M | 0.04 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $101.26M | 0.52 | 662,676 | -3.88% | -$4.08M | 0.02 | |
| Nuveen | $94.45M | 0.48 | 618,114 | +16.54% | +$13.4M | 0.03 | |
| Mirae Asset Global Investments Co Ltd | $64.25M | 0.44 | 566,554 | -15.7% | -$11.97M | 0.05 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $85.9M | 0.44 | 562,170 | -3.15% | -$2.8M | 0.06 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $77.37M | 0.4 | 507,357 | +4.49% | +$3.33M | 0.01 | |
| First Trust | $75M | 0.38 | 490,813 | +19.18% | +$12.07M | 0.08 | |
| BNY Mellon | $52.03M | 0.27 | 340,504 | -2.49% | -$1.33M | 0.01 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $48.59M | 0.25 | 317,991 | +24.27% | +$9.49M | <0.01 | |
| Invesco | $47.36M | 0.24 | 309,968 | -27.58% | -$18.04M | 0.01 | |
| Northern Trust | $37.66M | 0.19 | 246,474 | -18.46% | -$8.53M | 0.01 | |
| Legal & General | $37.6M | 0.19 | 246,045 | -2.03% | -$779,889.81 | 0.01 | |
| Charles Schwab | $35.59M | 0.18 | 232,891 | -34.01% | -$18.34M | 0.01 | |
| ProShares | $33.66M | 0.17 | 220,291 | -15.02% | -$5.95M | 0.09 | |
| Allspring Global Investments | $32.65M | 0.17 | 213,649 | -9.04% | -$3.24M | 0.05 | |
| Ubs Asset Management Americas Inc | $31.45M | 0.16 | 205,845 | -2.02% | -$648,635.98 | 0.01 | |
| Balyasny Asset Management Llc | $30.76M | 0.16 | 201,289 | New | +$30.76M | 0.08 | |
| ExodusPoint Capital Management, LP | $29.27M | 0.15 | 191,553 | +140.97% | +$17.12M | 0.37 | |
| Merewether Investment Management, LP | $29.07M | 0.15 | 190,266 | New | +$29.07M | 0.28 | |
| Bank of America | $28.94M | 0.15 | 189,422 | +168.71% | +$18.17M | <0.01 | |
| Appian Way Asset Management LP | $25.15M | 0.13 | 164,619 | New | +$25.15M | 8.25 | |
| AQR Capital | $21.91M | 0.11 | 143,725 | -26.47% | -$7.89M | 0.04 | |
| Cerity Partners | $22.02M | 0.11 | 144,108 | +137.5% | +$12.75M | 0.06 | |
| SCOPUS ASSET MANAGEMENT, L.P | $20.9M | 0.11 | 136,755 | New | +$20.9M | 0.75 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $20.09M | 0.1 | 131,463 | +40.92% | +$5.83M | <0.01 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $17.59M | 0.09 | 115,100 | -3.6% | -$657,040.00 | 0.01 | |
| Janus Henderson | $16.69M | 0.09 | 109,204 | -36.67% | -$9.66M | 0.01 | |
| Ameriprise Financial | $16.78M | 0.09 | 109,820 | -7.23% | -$1.31M | 0.01 | |
| Alyeska Investment Group L P | $16.31M | 0.08 | 106,751 | +135.32% | +$9.38M | 0.1 | |
| Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co LLC | $15.77M | 0.08 | 103,211 | -22.07% | -$4.47M | 0.06 | |
| Scout Investments | $15.06M | 0.08 | 97,613 | -8.21% | -$1.35M | 0.38 | |
| Federated Hermes | $14.68M | 0.08 | 96,051 | -50% | -$14.68M | 0.03 | |
| Guggenheim Capital | $14.83M | 0.08 | 97,069 | +16.2% | +$2.07M | 0.1 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | $14.71M | 0.08 | 96,285 | +287.07% | +$10.91M | 0.01 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $14.44M | 0.07 | 94,472 | -1.36% | -$198,945.15 | 0.01 | |
| Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings | $13.3M | 0.07 | 87,039 | -2.54% | -$347,008.79 | 0.01 | |
| Natixis | $12.99M | 0.07 | 85,000 | +41,979.21% | +$12.96M | 0.07 | |
| Schonfeld Group | $12.05M | 0.06 | 78,840 | +2,383.93% | +$11.56M | 0.08 | |
| Moran Wealth Management Llc | $11.56M | 0.06 | 75,677 | -1.99% | -$235,312.01 | 0.38 | |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | $11.31M | 0.06 | 73,999 | +64.75% | +$4.44M | 0.04 | |
| State of Wisconsin Investment Board | $11.45M | 0.06 | 74,942 | +0.88% | +$99,320.00 | 0.03 | |
| AllianceBernstein | $11.1M | 0.06 | 72,649 | -0.28% | -$30,865.60 | <0.01 |