Smurfit Westrock Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Sales Fall Short

Smurfit Westrock Plc (SW) reported earnings of 73 cents per share in first-quarter 2025, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 65 cents by a margin of 12%. The bottom line was flat compared with the year-ago quarter. Smurfit Westrock was formed by the merger of two major paper and packaging industry players, Smurfit Kappa and WestRock, on July 5, 2024. Results for Smurfit Westrock are being reported from the third quarter of 2024 as a unified company. In the current first-quarter 2025 earnings release, th ...