Consider This Before Taking a Position in Series (SW)

By Tamara Parker • Thursday, November 27 15:17 • Permanent Link

Shares of Packaging & Containers company Series jumped 2.3% today. With many investors piling into SW without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

Series has moved -35.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.9%
SW has an average analyst rating of buy and is -33.41% away from its mean target price of $53.73 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.46
Series has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.5 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.61 and its forward P/E ratio is 9.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.01 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Series is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.93 and an average P/B of 2.93
The company has a free cash flow of $1.23 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Smurfit Westrock Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products. The company produces containerboard; packaging of corrugated containers; consumer packaging; and offers solid board, kraft paper, and graphic board, as well as other packaging products, such as solidboard packaging, paper sacks and bag-in-box. It produces linerboard and corrugated medium, paperboard, and non-packaging grades of paper, as well as converted products, such as folding cartons and corrugated boxes, and other products; recycled paper-based packaging products; and packaging machinery. The company primarily serves food and beverage, e-commerce, retail, consumer goods, industrial, and foodservice markets in 40 countries. Smurfit Westrock Plc was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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