Smurfit WestRock plc (NYSE:SW) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.97% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $48.17.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $47.24, falling within a range of $46.85 and $48.24. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.017 whereas the PE ratio is 39.43 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $56.99, and the low was $37.01. On the whole, SW has fluctuated by 9.50% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Smurfit WestRock plc currently standing at about $25.07 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-01. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.47, with its dividend yield at 3.04%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that SW’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.54, with the price of SW currently trading nearly 8.63% and 10.03% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 68.32, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.15% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.22%. Furthermore, Smurfit WestRock plc (SW)’s beta value is 1.03.
A comparison of Smurfit WestRock plc (SW) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. SW showed an intraday change of 1.97% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -10.56%%.
Data on historical trading for Smurfit WestRock plc (NYSE:SW) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.69 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.58 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 521.98 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.50% of Smurfit WestRock plc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 91.93% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 18.55 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 6.27. According to the data, the short interest in Smurfit WestRock plc (SW) stood at 420.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 21.8 million. The stock has risen by 4.22% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the SW stock heading into the next quarter.
