Westlake Chemical Corp. Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

Westlake Chemical Corp. Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between Westlake Chemical Corp. and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of Westlake Chemical Corp. position in the Chemical Industry.

• The report contains detailed information about Westlake Chemical Corp. that gives an unrivalled in-depth knowledge about internal business-environment of the company: data about the owners, senior executives, locations, subsidiaries, markets, products, and company history.
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About Westlake Chemical Corp.

Westlake Chemical Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and fabricated products. The company’s products include various chemicals, which are fundamental to a range of consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction, as well as other durable and non-durable goods.

Segments

The company operates in two business segments, Olefins and Vinyls.

OLEFINS BUSINESS

Olefins are the basic building blocks used to create a range of petrochemical products. The company manufactures ethylene, polyethylene, styrene, and associated co-products.

Ethylene: The company has the capacity to produce 2.5 billion pounds of ethylene per year at its Lake Charles complex and the capability to consume all of its production internally to produce polyethylene and styrene monomer in its Olefins business and to produce VCM and EDC in its Vinyls business. It also produces ethylene in its Vinyls segment at its Calvert City, Kentucky facility, all of which is used internally in the production of VCM. In addition, the company produces ethylene co-products, including chemical grade propylene, crude butadiene, pyrolysis gasoline and hydrogen. It sells its entire output of these co-products to external customers.

Polyethylene: Polyethylene is used in the manufacture of various packaging, film, coatings and molded product applications. Polyethylene is generally classified as either LDPE, LLDPE or HDPE. LDPE is used in end products such as bread bags, dry cleaning bags, food wraps and milk carton and snack package coatings. LLDPE is used for higher film strength applications, such as stretch film and heavy duty sacks. HDPE is used to manufacture products, such as grocery, merchandise and trash bags, plastic containers and plastic caps and closures.

Styrene: Styrene is used to produce derivatives, such as polystyrene, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, unsaturated polyester and synthetic rubber. These derivatives are used in various applications, including injection molding, disposables, food packaging, housewares, paints and coatings, resins, building materials, tires and toys.

Feedstocks

The company produces majority of the ethylene required to produce its polyethylene, VCM and styrene. Ethylene can be produced from either petroleum liquid feedstocks, such as naphtha, condensates and gas oils, or from natural gas liquid feedstocks, such as ethane, propane and butane.

In addition to its internally supplied ethylene, the company also acquires ethylene from third parties to supply a portion of its ethylene requirements. In addition, the company acquires butene and hexene to manufacture polyethylene and benzene to manufacture styrene.

Competition

The company’s competitors in the ethylene, polyethylene and styrene markets include INEOS, The Dow Chemical Company, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, LyondellBasell Industries, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP and NOVA Chemicals Corporation, a subsidiary of The International Petroleum Investment Company of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

VINYLS BUSINESS

The company’s principal products in its integrated Vinyls segment include PVC, VCM, EDC, chlorine, caustic soda, and ethylene. It also manufactures and sells products fabricated from the PVC it produces, including pipe, fence and deck, and window and door components. It manages its integrated Vinyls production chain, from the basic chemicals to finished fabricated products As of February 18, 2010, the company also operated 11 PVC fabricated product facilities and owned a 59% interest in a joint venture in China that produces PVC resin, PVC fabricated products, and PVC film and sheet.

PVC: PVC is produced from VCM, which is, in turn, made from chlorine and ethylene. Rigid extrusion PVC compounds are commonly used in window frames, vertical blinds and construction products, including pipe and siding. Injection-molding PVC compounds are used in specialty products, such as computer housings and keyboards, appliance parts and bottles. The company has the capacity to produce 1.1 billion pounds of PVC p

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LIST OF TABLES

Westlake Chemical Corp. Key Facts
Profitability
Management Effectiveness
Income Statement Key Figures
Balance Sheet Key Figures
Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Westlake Chemical Corp. Key Executives
Westlake Chemical Corp. Major Shareholders
Westlake Chemical Corp. History
Westlake Chemical Corp. Products
Revenues by Segment
Revenues by Region
Westlake Chemical Corp. Offices and Representations
Westlake Chemical Corp. SWOT Analysis
Yearly Income Statement Including Trends
Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Balance Sheet Including Trends
Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Yearly Cash Flow Including Trends
Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Westlake Chemical Corp. Profitability Ratios
Margin Analysis Ratios
Asset Turnover Ratios
Credit Ratios
Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Westlake Chemical Corp. Capital Market Snapshot
Westlake Chemical Corp. Direct Competitors Key Facts
Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Chemical Industry Statistics
Westlake Chemical Corp. Industry Position
Company vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Company vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Company vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Company vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Westlake Chemical Corp. Consensus Recommendations¹
Analyst Recommendation Summary¹
Price Target Summary¹
Experts Recommendation Trends¹
Revenue Estimates Analysis¹
Earnings Estimates Analysis¹
Historical Surprises¹
Revenue Estimates Trend¹
Earnings Estimates Trend¹
Revenue Revisions¹

SWOT Analysis

SWOT, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, is an analytical framework that identifies the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable for a company.

Enhanced SWOT Analysis

Enhanced SWOT is a 3×3 grid that arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats into one scheme:

• How to use the strengths to take advantage of the opportunities?
• How to use the strengths to reduce likelihood and impact of the threats?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that obstruct taking advantage of the opportunities?
• How to overcome the weaknesses that can make the threats a reality?

Upon answering these questions a company can develop a project plan to improve its business performance.

PESTEL Analysis

PESTEL (also termed as PESTLE) is an ideal tool to strategically analyze what influence different outside factors – political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal – exert on a business to later chart its long term targets.

Being part of the external analysis when carrying out a strategic assessment or performing a market study, PESTEL gives an overview of diverse macro-environmental factors that any company should thoughtfully consider. By perceiving these outside environments, businesses can maximally benefit from the opportunities while minimizing the threats to the organization.

Key Factors Examined by PESTEL Analysis:

• Political – What opportunities and pressures are brought by political bodies and what is the degree of public regulations’ impact on the business?
• Economic – What economic policies, trends and structures are expected to affect the organization, what is this influence’s degree?
• Sociological – What cultural and societal aspects will work upon the demand for the business’s products and operations?
• Technological – What impact do the technological aspects, innovations, incentives and barriers have on the organization?
• Environmental – What environmental and ecological facets, both locally and farther afield, are likely to predetermine the business?
• Legal – What laws and legislation will exert influence on the style the business is carried out?

IFE, EFE, IE Matrices

The Internal Factor Evaluation matrix (IFE matrix) is a strategic management tool helping audit or evaluate major weaknesses and strengths in a business’s functional areas. In addition, IFE matrix serves as a basis for identifying and assessing relationships amongst those areas. The IFE matrix is utilised in strategy formulation.

The External Factor Evaluation matrix (EFE matrix) is a tool of strategic management that is typically utilised to assess current market conditions. It is an ideal instrument for visualising and prioritising the threats and opportunities a firm is facing.

The essential difference between the above mentioned matrices lies in the type of factors incorporated in the model; whilst the latter is engaged in internal factors, the former deals exceptionally with external factors – those exposed to social, political, economic, legal, etc. external forces.

Being a continuation of the EFE matrix and IFE matrix models, the Internal External matrix (IE matrix) rests upon an investigation of external and internal business factors integrated into one suggestive model.

Porter Five Forces Analysis

The Porter’s five forces analysis studies the industry of operation and helps the company find new sources of competitive advantage. The analysis surveys an industry through five major questions:

1. What composes a threat of substitute products and services?
2. Is there a threat of new competitors entering the market?
3. What is the intensity of competitive rivalry?
4. How big is the bargaining power of buyers?
5. How significant is the bargaining power of suppliers?

VRIO Analysis

VRIO stands for Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization. This analysis helps to evaluate all company’s resources and capabilities and bring them together into one aggregate table that includes:

• Tangible resources
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Technological
  • Organizational
• Intangible resources
  • Human
  • Innovation and Creativity
  • Reputation
• Organizational capabilities

The result of the analysis gives a clear picture of company’s competitive and economic implications, answering the questions if the resources mentioned above are:

• Valuable?
• Rare?
• Costly to imitate?
• Organized properly?