We recently published an article titled Why These 15 Large-Cap Stocks Are Plunging So Far In 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) stands against the other large-cap stocks.

The big and large-cap stocks have spearheaded the rally in the past two years, but Wall Street’s expectations have gotten ahead of many of their fundamentals. The Nasdaq briefly entered correction territory as the stock market cooled over the past week due to tariff fears and a perceived slowdown in the growth of AI, which then spilled into the data center industry.

Wall Street is now reassessing the growth premium they are paying for many of these large-cap stocks. A lot of them have tumbled in the past week and have done so in a much more severe way than the broader market.

That said, large companies have staying power, and many of them could now be undervalued.

Methodology

For this article, I screened the worst-performing large-cap stocks ($10 billion to $100 billion) year-to-date.

I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (see more details here).

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West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q4 2024: 35

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) makes injectable pharmaceutical packaging and delivery systems.

The stock is down significantly so far in 2025 due to the company issuing weak guidance for 2025. The guidance was significantly below market expectations.

The company projected revenues between $2.88 billion and $2.91 billion (versus the $3.04 billion consensus).

Adjusted EPS was projected at $6 to $6.2 vs. the $7.44 expected by analysts.

The consensus price target of $344 implies 49.21% upside.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) stock is down 29.57% year-to-date.

Overall WST ranks 6th on our list of the large-cap stocks that are plunging so far in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of WST as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than WST but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

 

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.