West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (WST)

WST · Health Care · United States United States

West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (WST) is a company in the Health Care sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 21 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 0.42 % in XUHL (msci-usa-health-care). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in West Pharmaceutical Services.

Above-average ETF coverage: 21 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold West Pharmaceutical Services, spread across 10 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 85.2 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in21 ETFs
Highest weight0.42 %
Indices10
SectorHealth Care
CountryUnited States
ISINUS9553061055

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date+31.6 %1 year+40.1 %
1 month+4.4 %3 months+11.9 %
Calendar year 2025-16.0 %
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Measured in euros, West Pharmaceutical Services returned +34.0 % year to date and +43.4 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-45.3 %
Volatility p.a.46.5 %

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Below peak-1.0 %
Beta to S&P 5000.62
Correlation to S&P 5000.24

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 1.0 % below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024, reached on Jul 2, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, West Pharmaceutical Services moved on average 0.62 % in the same direction. The correlation of 0.24 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue3.1 bn $
Net income0.5 bn $
Diluted EPS6.79 $
Net margin16.1 %
Gross margin35.9 %
Return on equity15.5 %
Equity ratio74.4 %
Revenue growth+6.3 %
Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal yearRevenueNet incomeMargin
FY20232.90.620.1 %
FY20242.90.517.0 %
FY20253.10.516.1 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETFIndexWeightper €1,000 in the ETF
XUHL / XUHCmsci-usa-health-care0.42 %€4.20
XDWHmsci-world-health-care0.31 %€3.10
SPFSmsci-world-health-care0.31 %€3.10
2B7Kmsci-world-sri0.12 %€1.20
SPYI / SPSAmsci-acwi-imi0.06 %€0.60
XDEMmsci-world-momentum0.05 %€0.50
SPYL / SPY5sp5000.04 %€0.40
SXR8sp5000.04 %€0.40
XD9U / XD9Dmsci-usa0.04 %€0.40
SWWDmsci-world0.03 %€0.30
WIMImsci-world-imi0.03 %€0.30
EUNLmsci-world0.03 %€0.30
IUSQmsci-acwi0.03 %€0.30
SPPWmsci-world0.03 %€0.30
XDWD / XDWLmsci-world0.03 %€0.30
SPYYmsci-acwi0.02 %€0.20

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to West Pharmaceutical Services as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Dec 31, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, West Pharmaceutical Services had a weight of 0.02 % on Dec 31, 2019 and 0.03 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.05 % on Sep 30, 2021. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as West Pharmaceutical Services — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock1 yearVolatility p.a.Net marginRevenue growth
West Pharmaceutical Services+40.1 %46.5 %16.1 %+6.3 %
Humana+41.3 %46.2 %0.9 %+10.1 %
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated+37.1 %23.0 %9.0 %+11.8 %
Agilent Technologies+20.8 %31.5 %18.8 %+6.7 %
IQVIA Holdings Inc+43.9 %39.2 %8.3 %+5.9 %
Mettler-Toledo International+8.0 %32.7 %21.6 %+4.0 %
STERIS-15.4 %23.8 %13.2 %+8.7 %
Stryker Corporation-24.4 %25.4 %12.9 %+11.2 %
Veeva Systems-3.3 %39.1 %28.4 %+16.3 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.

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