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WestRock Co

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Signs2 good3 warningdetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY23FY22FY21FY20FY19FY18
Revenue$20.31B$21.26B$18.75B$17.58B$18.29B$16.29B
Operating income−$1.51B$1.33B$1.28B−$256.2M$1.49B$1.19B
Net income−$1.65B$944.6M$838.3M−$690.9M$862.9M$1.91B
Total assets$27.44B$28.41B$29.25B$28.78B$30.16B$25.36B
Total liabilities
Equity$10.08B$11.40B$11.67B$10.63B$11.67B$11.47B
EPS (diluted)$-6.44$3.61$3.13$-2.67$3.33$7.34
Shares out.256.5M254.5M265.0M262.7M257.9M253.6M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2023
Operating margin
−7.4%
Net margin
−8.1%
Return on equity
−16.4%
Return on assets
−6.0%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−6.7%
Liabilities / assets
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$39.31
Revenue growth (YoY)
−4.5%
Net income growth (YoY)
−274.6%

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2023
Accruals / assets
12.7%clean
Piotroski F-Score
2/8weak

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
47
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 100

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Signs

3 warning2 good
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • Revenue declined year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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