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Westlake Chemical Elects Michael J. Graff and R. Bruce Northcutt to Board

PR Newswire (Mon, 6:00AM)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share

PR Newswire (Fri, 5:29PM)
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, May 6
Westlake Announces First Quarter Earnings

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PR Newswire (May 1, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Corporation Announces First Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call

PR Newswire (Apr 11, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Announces That Director Bill Barnett Will Retire

PR Newswire (Apr 5, 2013)
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Westlake Chemical Acquires CertainTeed's PVC Pipe, Fittings and Foundations Business

PR Newswire (Mar 6, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 19
Westlake Chemical Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Earnings for 2012

PR Newswire (Feb 19, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share

PR Newswire (Feb 18, 2013)
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Westlake Chemical Corporation Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

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Westlake Chemical Begins Ethylene Capacity Expansion Project in Lake Charles, LA

PR Newswire (Jan 10, 2013)
Westlake Chemical's Quarterly and Special Dividend Record Date Amended to November 29, 2012

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share and Special Dividend of $3.75 per Share

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Nov 8, 2012

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Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, May 6
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 19
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Nov 8, 2012
Westlake Chemical Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Aug 2, 2012
Westlake Chemical's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, May 1, 2012
Westlake Chemical's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 21, 2012
Westlake Chemical's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Nov 1, 2011
Westlake Chemical's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Aug 2, 2011
Westlake Chemical Corporation Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, May 5, 2009
Westlake Chemical Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 18, 2009
Westlake Chemical Corp. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Nov 6, 2008
Westlake Chemical Corporation. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Aug 5, 2008
Westlake Chemical Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, May 6, 2008
Westlake Chemical Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 19, 2008

Westlake Chemical Elects Michael J. Graff and R. Bruce Northcutt to Board

PR Newswire (Mon, 6:00AM)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share

PR Newswire (Fri, 5:29PM)
Westlake Announces First Quarter Earnings

PR Newswire (May 6, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Closes Purchase of CertainTeed's PVC Pipe, Fittings and Foundations Business

PR Newswire (May 1, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Corporation Announces First Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call

PR Newswire (Apr 11, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Announces That Director Bill Barnett Will Retire

PR Newswire (Apr 5, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Acquires CertainTeed's PVC Pipe, Fittings and Foundations Business

PR Newswire (Mar 6, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Earnings for 2012

PR Newswire (Feb 19, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share

PR Newswire (Feb 18, 2013)
Westlake Chemical Corporation Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

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Westlake Chemical Begins Ethylene Capacity Expansion Project in Lake Charles, LA

PR Newswire (Jan 10, 2013)
Market Extra: More dividend games seen as fiscal cliff nears

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December's Dividend Bonanza

at Fox Business (Nov 20, 2012)
Westlake Chemical's Quarterly and Special Dividend Record Date Amended to November 29, 2012

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
Westlake Chemical Declares Quarterly Dividend of 18.75 cents per Share and Special Dividend of $3.75 per Share

PR Newswire (Nov 19, 2012)
Westlake Announces Third Quarter Earnings

PR Newswire (Nov 8, 2012)
Westlake Chemical Corporation Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

Business Wire (Oct 18, 2012)
Westlake to Convert Calvert City Ethylene Feedstock to Ethane

PR Newswire (Oct 2, 2012)

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Sector: Basic Materials

Industry: Specialty Chemicals

Country: United States

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Friday, May 17, 5:46 PM Westlake Chemical (WLK) declares $0.1875/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.81%. For shareholders of record June 04. Payable June 19. Ex-div date May 31. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, May 6, 6:09 AM Westlake Chemical (WLK): Q1 EPS of $1.84 beats by $0.59. Revenue of $864.6M misses by $5.5M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Monday, May 6, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Monday’s open: APO, BPI, CRNT, EXXI, PETS, SYY, TESO, TSN, WLK, ZINC Comment! [Earnings]
Sunday, May 5, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Monday’s open: APO, BPI, CRNT, EXXI, PETS, SYY, TESO, TSN, WLK, ZINC Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, April 12, 5:53 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: PLCM +4%. WLK +4%. IM +4%. ANV +4%. RES +4%.
After-hours top losers: USLV -4%. PTIE -3%. HOLX -3%. ARP -2%. RSH -2%. Comment! [On the Move]
Friday, April 5, 5:01 PM Westlake Chemical (WLK) director E. William Barnett has informed the company that he has elected to retire from the board after completing his current term, which will expire at the 2013 annual meeting of stockholders of the company. Shares -0.4% AH. Comment! [Commodities]
Wednesday, March 6, 4:44 PM Westlake Chemical (WLK) agrees to acquire Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's PVC pipe, fittings and foundations business for $175M. The acquisition includes associated operating facilities in California and Kansas with production capacity of ~150M lbs./year. WLK -0.8% AH. Comment! [Commodities, M&A]
Tuesday, February 19, 8:38 AM Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK) declares $0.1875/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.82%. For shareholders of record Mar. 01. Payable Mar. 15. Ex-div date Feb. 27. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Tuesday, February 19, 6:16 AM Westlake Chemical (WLK): Q4 EPS of $1.42 beats by $0.20. Revenue of $801M misses by $31M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Friday, February 8, 2:43 PM Westlake Chemical (WLK +1%) is upgraded to Neutral from Sell at UBS, which also lifts its target price to $90 from $66, reflecting its view that U.S. ethane will remain oversupplied through 2016 and trade at a significant discount to traditional floor values based on natural gas prices. The firm looks for WLK's margins from light crackers to continue in the mid-to-upper $0.20/lb area. Comment! [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Monday, November 19, 2012, 2:03 PM Westlake Chemical Corp. (WLK) declares $0.1875/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 1.02%. For shareholders of record Nov. 29. Payable Dec. 12. Ex-div Nov. 27. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, November 19, 2012, 8:23 AM Westlake Chemical (WLK) says it will pay a special dividend of $3.75/share in addition to a regular quarterly $0.1875/share dividend. The $250M WLK is paying out is roughly equal to the company's free cash flow in the first nine months of this year. Comment! [Commodities]
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 6:21 AM Westlake Chemical (WLK): Q3 EPS of $1.30 beats by $0.06. Revenue of $821.2M (-15% Y/Y) misses by $80M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, October 19, 2012, 12:17 PM A recent IRS decision that income from a company’s steam crackers qualifies for the MLP operating structure could be a boon for chemicals producers and could mean a wave of new chemical MLPs down the road. Beneficiaries could include WMB, WLK, LYB and DOW on potential for other chemical assets to be dropped into MLPs. 1 Comment [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 2:33 PM LyondellBasell (LYB +5.7%) extends yesterday's gains sparked by a Barron's report that the hedge fund favorite was named as one of the chemical companies with most upside potential. But chemical names are strong across the board today, perhaps from speculation that a regulatory ruling could open up a move to an MLP structure: WLK +7.7%, DOW +5.3%, HUN +3%. 2 Comments [Commodities, On the Move]
Monday, August 27, 2012, 10:43 AM Westlake Chemical (WLK -2.6%) is downgraded to Sell from Neutral at UBS, which says the current stock near $69 has been buoyed in the near-term by an unusual combination of factors that will moderate starting later in 2012. The firm believes the advantageous confluence of factors will ease by Q4 and ethane prices will rise. 1 Comment [Commodities, Quick Ideas, On the Move]

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Returning Upgrades (5/6/13): $ABFS, $BLMN, $COR, $FNGN, $GEOS, $HFC, $MBI, $STJ, $VNR, $WCC, $WLK
May 7, 2:25 PM
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New Downgrades (4/1/13): $TXI, $WLK, $YCS
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Potential Downgrades (3/27/13): $LEN, $LII, $LLL, $LYB, $MCRS, $OPEN, $PRGO, $RKUS, $SWK, $TOL, $TRV, $WLK
Mar 28, 10:10 AM
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Today's Potential Upgrades (3/6/13): $AET, $ATI, $AVT, $CYT, $EZCH, $FCX, $HAR, $KLAC, $PAY, $RIG, $WLK
Mar 7, 7:55 AM
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Elliott Gue
Ethane prices hit 5-year low last Friday. Implications for MLPs and petchem names: http://bit.ly/12fmYUZ $LINE, $WLK, $LYB, $AMID
12/15/12
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Hillbilly Stock Star: $LNCO ........Long.
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Elliott Gue
$DOW, $WLK and $LYB post big gains on reports IRS about to announce new rule allowingethane and propane crackers in MLP structure.
10/16/12
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David White
A good number of my recommendations have done well. Recent ones include: short SBUX, GES, ANF; long WLK. Some are longer term only.
8/29/12
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David White
Analysts were far off on ANF & WLK this week. There was plenty of evidence that these would do much worse/better. Aren't better at economics
8/3/12
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David White
You can always do better, but my tracking acct is up approx. 20% since 1/1/12. Recent long WLK. Recent shorts ANF & SBUX. Not bad.
8/2/12
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David White
I wrote a recent article on WLK (reports tomorrow). Good bet. http://seekingalpha.com/a/gb2h
8/1/12
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Ethane prices hit 5-year low last Friday. Implications for MLPs and petchem names: http://bit.ly/12fmYUZ $LINE, $WLK, $LYB, $AMID
12/15/12
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