Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK)
Westlake Chemical Corporation Altman Z-Score: 4.185
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WLK Altman Z-Score Rankings
| Overall | 69th percentile | 1070 of 3551 |
| Sector | 75th percentile | 92 of 378 in Basic Materials |
| Industry | 68th percentile | 16 of 51 in Specialty Chemicals |
WLK Altman Z-Score Range, Past 5 Years
| Minimum | 2.566 | Sep 2009 |
| Maximum | 4.466 | Mar 2012 |
| Average | 3.299 |
About Altman Z-Score
CAUTION: The Altman Z-Score is meant to be applied only to manufacturing firms that are near bankruptcy. It was not based on a sample including non-manufacturing firms (service firms, banks, etc.). Use it at your own risk with those companies, but beware that bankruptcy probabilities may be misstated.
The Altman Z-Score helps investors to gauge the probability of a company going bankrupt. Generally, firms with a score above 3.00 have a low probability of bankruptcy, and those with a Z-Score of less than 1.81 have a relatively high probability of bankruptcy.
Note that this is a probabilistic model, so it will not classify perfectly.
The score was first published in a 1968 paper by Edward Altman titled "Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy."
Altman re-tested the model in a 2000 paper titled "Predicting financial distress of companies: Revisiting the Z-score and Zeta models". The paper showed that the model still had utility for looking at manufacturers, though the number of misclassifications did increase over time.
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Recent Quotes
| Symbol | Price | Chg | Chg % | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WLK | 54.49 | -0.72 | -1.30% | 3.629B |
| WLFC | 12.74 | +0.00 | +0.00% | 116.70M |
| WLDN | 1.82 | -0.08 | -4.21% | 13.23M |
| WLB | 7.48 | +0.19 | +2.61% | 103.82M |
| WIW | 12.98 | +0.01 | +0.08% | |
| WIT | 8.60 | -0.04 | -0.46% | 21.12B |
| WBSN | 18.58 | +0.08 | +0.43% | 700.28M |
| WBS | 20.27 | +0.39 | +1.96% | 1.775B |
| WBMD | 23.03 | +0.58 | +2.58% | 1.310B |
| WBK | 98.71 | +0.26 | +0.26% | 59.82B |
