West Pharmaceutical Services
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of injectable pharmaceutical packaging and delivery systems. Founded in 1923 by Herman O. West and J.R. Wike of Philadelphia, the company is headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania. In its early years of development, West produced rubber components for packaging injectable drugs, providing a sterile environment for the producers of penicillin and insulin.
If you'd bought from year…
Same habit, different start year. Each row shows what a constant habit's worth of WST would be worth today, had you started buying at that point in the asset's history.
| Started | $6/day$6/day coffee | $42/wk$42/week coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 (1980) — listing | $5,548,174 79.4× | $8,040,690 79.4× |
| Year 6 (1985) | $3,273,063 52.3× | $4,734,190 52.2× |
| Year 11 (1990) | $2,102,369 38.2× | $3,047,211 38.2× |
| Year 16 (1995) | $1,271,293 26.8× | $1,844,888 26.8× |
| Year 21 (2000) | $775,158 19.5× | $1,127,557 19.5× |
| Year 26 (2005) | $303,090 9.4× | $440,258 9.4× |
| Year 31 (2010) | $144,113 5.8× | $209,495 5.8× |
| Year 36 (2015) | $41,423 2.4× | $60,214 2.4× |
| Year 41 (2020) | $10,960 1.1× | $15,939 1.1× |
| Year 46 (2025) | $2,709 1.3× | $3,942 1.3× |
Repeated investment, no fees, dividends reinvested. $6/day coffee = $180 / month equivalent.
Popular scenarios with WST
For illustration only — not investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.