Westlake Corporation
Westlake Corporation is classed by the SEC under Industrial Organic Chemicals (industry code 2860), based in Houston, TX. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, it reported revenue of $11 billion and a loss of $1.5 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a product business: prior from its industry code (SEC 2860, Industrial Organic Chemicals); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 5.4 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 6.7 out of ten, present 5.4 out of ten, future 4.0 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 8.1 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 81st percentile among 21 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 5.8 out of ten. +9.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10. 58th percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 6.5 out of ten. Share count shrank 0.2% a year. 22% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 9 sales, 0 purchases. 65th percentile among 10 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 4.6 out of ten. ROE -17%: lost 17¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 56%: owes 56¢ per asset dollar. 46th percentile among 20 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 5.8 out of ten. top 42% of 20 in its family; net margin -13.5%. 58th percentile among 20 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 6.2 out of ten. top 38% of 17 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024. 62nd percentile among 17 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 4.5 out of ten. bottom 45% of 20 in its family for room to expand. 45th percentile among 20 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 3.8 out of ten. bottom 38% of 19 in its family for growth drivers. 38th percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 3.3 out of ten. bottom 32% of 19 in its family for expectations against reality. 32nd percentile among 19 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-08-05 for the period ended 2026-06-30 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-08-04 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 8-K, 2026-09-29. Filings on record since 2003. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Where the revenue comes from
By geography: United States 71%, Other 10%, Canada 7%, Germany 5%, Mexico 2%, China 2%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-26).
Who runs it
Gilson, Jean-Marc (President and CEO); Chao, Albert (Executive Chairman); Chao, James (Senior Chairman); Baksht, Jonathan (SVP and CFO); Bender, Mark Steven (EVP & CFO); Darby, Tommy (VP and CAO); Powers, Brian John (SVP, PEM Segment Head); Buesinger, Robert F. (EVP, PEM Segment Head); Chao, John Tsung-Chen (VP & MD, Westlake Innovations); Ederington, L. Benjamin (EVP, Legal & External Affairs); and 12 more. 22 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-09-30.
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