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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Westlake (WLK)

Westlake swings to $142 million Q2 net loss on $130 million plant charges

Negative Impact 4 of 5 earnings Written later

Westlake reported a second-quarter 2025 net loss of $142 million, or $1.11 per diluted share, compared with net income of $313 million, or $2.40 per share, a year earlier. Net sales fell to $2.95 billion from $3.21 billion, and the results include $130 million of charges tied to closing the Pernis facility in The Netherlands and pausing a PVC unit in China. Excluding these items, the net loss was $12 million, or $0.09 per share, and the company expanded its cost-reduction target to an additional $200 million by 2026.

Key points

  • Net sales of $2,953 million in Q2 2025, down from $3,207 million in Q2 2024 but up from $2,846 million in Q1 2025.
  • Net loss of $142 million, or $1.11 per diluted share; excluding $130 million of identified items, net loss was $12 million, or $0.09 per share.
  • EBITDA excluding identified items was $340 million, compared with $744 million in Q2 2024 and $288 million in Q1 2025.
  • Cost-reduction target expanded to an additional $200 million of reductions by 2026, on top of a 2025 target of $150 million to $175 million.

The filing

CompanyWestlake (WLK)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECAug 5, 2025, 7:25 AM ET
Accession number0001262823-25-000047

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI on Nov 8, 2026, 1:17 AM ET, from this filing only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on August 05, 2025.

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