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Smurfit Westrock $SW

🫧 Edgar looked up Smurfit Westrock plc ($SW). Last filing: 10-Q, 2026-07-31. 7 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $31.2B (FY2025), total debt $13.4B. Experience: revenue up 47.7% on the year, up 32.1% a year over 3 years; operating margin 5.5%, up from 4.8%. Soundness: equity 40.6% of assets, return on equity 3.8%, payout 128.8% of profit, the dividend per share fell in the latest year on record. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $30.7B and $56.8B next year (method v4.1: its own 3-year record of growth weighed at 40% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $23.5B to $72.6B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (13 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 5.5% against a 0.3% median; growth 47.7% against 0.9%.

Smurfit Westrock plc against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 0.3%5.5%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 0.9%47.7%Equity of assetsPeer median 30.5%40.6%Return on equityPeer median 1.5%3.8%Payout of profitPeer median 56.7%128.8%Gold tick: the median of 8–16 peers with $50M+ revenue in paperboard containers & boxes
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit120.0% paid outMore was paid out than was earned in the year.Handed back per share$1.72cut in the latest yearGrowth its own profit can fund0.0%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed47.7%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-12-31
Revenue$31.2B
Revenue, on the year47.7%
Revenue, a year over the record32.1%
Operating margin5.5%
Operating margin, prior year4.8%
Net margin2.2%
Research and developmentnot filed separately
Total debt$13.4B
Equity of assets40.6%
Return on equity3.8%
Payout of profit128.8%
Dividend per share$1.72 · cut in the latest year
Earnings per share$1.34
Book value per share$34.84
Revenue per share$59.28
Shares outstanding526,000,000
Audited years read4

Peers: the median of 13 filers with $50M+ revenue in paperboard containers & boxes.

Health watch · last 12 months

Events the company itself filed with the SEC, most serious first. Shown beside the figures; they do not change the range or its receipt.

Health Harbor

Smurfit Westrock sails as: Sound ship

Sailing speed follows growth: 32.1% a year crosses the harbor in 30 seconds.

New shipno warning signs
Sound shipone warning sign
Weathered boattwo warning signs
Old boatthree warning signs
Rotting at the dockfour or more warning signs

Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.

Speed and cash · fiscal 2025

Cash Compass🌱 Cash cow later · growing fast, and already turning revenue into cash
Inside viewTurns 10.9% of revenue into operating cash; revenue growing 32.1% a year over three years; pays and raised its dividend.
Outside viewAmong $10B+ companies: 41st percentile for cash, 97th for growth. cash growth

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Cash conversion (operating cash ÷ revenue)10.9%
Growth speed (3 years, per year)32.1%
Revenue swing (std-dev of yearly growth)34.8%
Cash flow (operating · investing · financing · free)$3.4B · −$2.1B · −$1.3B · $1.2B
Investment book (cash · short-term · long-term)$892M · — · —
Common dividendpaid, raised on the year
Equity of assets40.6%

Smurfit Westrock is growing faster than its size class, with revenue that swings more. SEC XBRL frames, the company’s own audited figures; quadrant split at the median of its size class.

Recent filings

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