Smurfit Westrock PLC

SW Consumer Cyclical Packaging & Containers

Smurfit Westrock PLC’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $31.2 billion, up 47.7% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 1.15%, EPS grew 440.0%, free cash flow was flat and total debt fell 1.39%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for five consecutive years.

41.16 0.08 −0.19%
Market cap
$21.6B
P/E
43.3×
Fwd P/E
18.6×
Dividend yield
4.34%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.44
Beneish M
−2.63
Dividend safety
28/100

Smurfit Westrock PLC (SW) Free cash flow margin

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Smurfit Westrock PLC's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 3.34%, down 0.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (3.89%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.37% (fiscal 2024) to 7.86% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 31% of that period. That is below the Packaging & Containers industry median of 5.14% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 2.70%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 3.89% 3.52
FY2024 0.37% (4.98)
FY2023 5.35% 1.84
FY2023 3.51% (0.31)
FY2022 3.82% (1.77)
FY2022 5.59% (2.27)
FY2021 7.86% 1.41
FY2020 6.45% 0.51
FY2019 5.94% 0.03
FY2018 5.91% 0.92

Against its own ten years

Low 0.37% High 7.86%
Ten-year median 5.59%
Current reading's percentile 31

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
AVY Avery Dennison Corporation compare 11.3%
CCK Crown Holdings, Inc. compare 9.38%
REYN Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. compare 8.45%
PKG Packaging Corporation of America compare 7.80%
BALL Ball Corporation compare 5.77%
SON Sonoco Products Company compare 5.40%
AMCR Amcor PLC compare 5.31%
SW Smurfit Westrock PLC 3.34%
IP International Paper Company compare 2.68%
Packaging & Containers industry median 5.14%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 2.70%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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