Analyzing Smurfit Westrock – A Stock Overview

By Naomi Wentworth • Sunday, January 05 15:14 • Permanent Link

Smurfit Westrock logged a -2.4% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $52.3 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. SW's trading volume is 2,619,327 compared to the stock's average volume of 3,605,911.

Anyone interested in buying SW should be aware of the facts below:

Smurfit Westrock has moved 13.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 24.7%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 0.72, Smurfit Westrock has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 72.6 while the S&P 500 average is None
SW has a forward P/E ratio of 14.5 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.61 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 1.51 compared to its sector average of None
Smurfit Westrock Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products in Ireland and internationally.
Based in Dublin, the company has 100,000 full time employees and a market cap of $27.2 Billion. Smurfit Westrock currently returns an annual dividend yield of 3.7%.

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