Investment Analysts’ Weekly Ratings Changes for Smurfit Westrock (SW)

Several analysts have recently updated their ratings and price targets for Smurfit Westrock (NYSE: SW):

• 7/29/2024 – Smurfit Westrock had its “hold” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Jefferies Financial Group Inc.. They now have a $52.00 price target on the stock.
• 7/19/2024 – Smurfit Westrock is now covered by analysts at Morgan Stanley. They set an “overweight” rating and a $60.00 price target on the stock.
• 7/12/2024 – Smurfit Westrock is now covered by analysts at Royal Bank of Canada. They set a “sector perform” rating and a $52.00 price target on the stock.
• 7/12/2024 – Smurfit Westrock is now covered by analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co.. They set an “overweight” rating and a $66.00 price target on the stock.

Smurfit Westrock Stock Performance

NYSE SW opened at $48.34 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.77, a current ratio of 1.34 and a quick ratio of 0.85. Smurfit Westrock Ltd has a fifty-two week low of $44.32 and a fifty-two week high of $49.50. The company has a market capitalization of $12.66 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 40.62, a P/E/G ratio of 1.49 and a beta of 1.05.

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 2nd. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.14. Smurfit Westrock had a net margin of 1.57% and a return on equity of 5.85%. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Smurfit Westrock Ltd will post 2.93 EPS for the current fiscal year.

WestRock is a multinational provider of paper and packaging solutions for consumer and corrugated packaging markets. The company is one of the largest integrated producers of containerboard by tons produced, and one of the largest producers of high-graphics preprinted linerboard on the basis of net sales in North America.