Westlake Corp dividend history
Westlake Corp's dividend was $2.11 a share in fiscal 2025, up 2.9% on the year before. It has raised its dividend per share every year since fiscal 2013.
Dividends, buybacks and capital spending
- Buybacks (TTM)
- $63M
- Dividends (TTM)
- $273M
- Returned to shareholders
- -127%
- of free cash flow
- Buybacks, last 3 fiscal years
- $146M
- Diluted share count
- −0.4%
- year over year
- Total shareholder yield
- 3.7%
- dividends 3.0% + buybacks 0.7% of market value
- Sales & admin spending
- 8.3%
- of revenue
- Days sales outstanding
- 55 days
- receivables vs revenue
Dividends by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dividend per share | $0.110 | $0.121 | $0.137 | $2.14 | $0.412 | $0.582 | $0.693 | $0.744 | $0.801 | $0.920 | $1.02 | $1.06 | $1.14 | $1.31 | $1.71 | $2.05 | $2.11 | — |
| Dividend per share growth | — | +10.0% | +13.5% | +>999% | −80.7% | +41.1% | +19.1% | +7.4% | +7.7% | +14.8% | +11.4% | +3.9% | +6.6% | +15.3% | +30.9% | +19.6% | +2.9% | — |
| Dividends paid | 15 | 16 | 18 | 286 | 55 | 78 | 92 | 97 | 103 | 120 | 132 | 137 | 145 | 169 | 221 | 264 | 272 | 273 |
| Share buybacks | — | 0 | 3 | 11 | 33 | 53 | 163 | 67 | 0 | 106 | 30 | 54 | 30 | 101 | 23 | 60 | 63 | 63 |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 27.4% | 7.2% | 7.1% | 74.1% | 9.0% | 11.4% | 14.2% | 24.3% | 7.9% | 12.0% | 31.4% | 41.5% | 7.2% | 7.5% | 46.1% | 43.9% | — | — |
| Dividends ÷ free cash flow | 10.7% | 7.9% | 10.0% | 126.8% | 75.1% | 12.9% | 15.6% | 40.8% | 10.8% | 17.0% | 25.7% | 17.7% | 8.4% | 7.4% | 17.0% | 86.3% | — | — |
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