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LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for LyondellBasell Industries N.V. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

Snapshot

Revenue
$30.15B
Revenue growth (YoY)
-9.7%
Net income
$-738.0M
Diluted EPS
$-2.34
Gross margin
8.5%
Operating margin
-1.4%
Net margin
-2.4%
FCF margin
1.3%
ROE
-7.3%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
n/m
not meaningful: a reported loss in the fiscal year or the trailing twelve months
Market cap
$20.44B
Long-term debt / equity
1.20×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at LyondellBasell Industries

  • Revenue fell 9.7% to $30.2B in FY2025, slower than the 0.2% the year before.
  • Operating margin is now a 1.4% loss in FY2025, from 14.7% in FY2021.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $9.2B, up 19.8% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $384M in FY2025, 1.3% of revenue.
  • Net income turned to a $738M loss in FY2025, from a $1.4B profit in FY2024.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where LyondellBasell Industries’s fundamentals sit among the 224 Materials companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Gross margin8.5%
10th percentile of 177
Operating margin-1.4%
31st percentile of 174
Net margin-2.4%
34th percentile of 206
FCF margin1.3%
33rd percentile of 191
Revenue growth (YoY)-9.7%
17th percentile of 219
ROE-7.3%
31st percentile of 199
Long-term debt / equity1.20×
76th percentile of 156
Short interest3.25d
35th percentile of 220

LyondellBasell Industries’s gross margin of 8.5% ranks in the 10th percentile of the 177 Materials companies reporting it.

No reported insider transactions (codes P/S) in the last 90 days. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Buys (90d)
0
code P
Bought (90d)
—
code P value
Sells (90d)
0
—
Reported activity
Quiet
by $ value, 90d
Trade dateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
2026-05-13
filed 2026-05-15
Jeffrey A. KaplanEVP, Chief PC, Leg & Corp OfcSell10.0K$74.16$742K

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S), which may be open-market or private. Excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
12.4M
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
-6.8%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
3.25
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
3.8M
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-3012.4M-6.8%3.25
2026-09-1513.4M-4.3%4.05
2026-08-3114.0M+10.5%3.79
2026-08-1412.6M+2.3%2.90
2026-07-3112.3M-1.5%2.69
2026-07-1512.5M-2.8%2.23
2026-06-3012.9M-7.3%2.24
2026-06-1513.9M+22.2%2.66

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Revenue$30.15B$33.39B$33.34B$50.45B$46.17B
Gross profit
Operating income$-420.0M$1.92B$2.73B$5.10B$6.77B
Pre-tax income$-715.0M$1.70B$2.30B$4.78B$6.79B
Net income$-738.0M$1.37B$2.12B$3.89B$5.62B
Diluted EPS$-2.34$4.15$6.46$11.81$16.75

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures (free cash flow is operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, which can differ from a company’s own definition); “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Diluted EPS includes discontinued operations where a company reports them. Cash & Equivalents excludes short-term investments and may include restricted cash where that is the figure the company tags. Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Cash and equivalents$3.44B$3.38B$3.39B$2.15B$1.47B
Current assets$10.87B$12.27B$13.15B$11.85B$12.22B
Total assets$34.00B$35.75B$37.00B$36.37B$36.74B
Current liabilities$6.13B$6.71B$7.15B$6.76B$7.23B
Long-term debt$12.12B$10.53B$10.33B$10.54B$11.25B
Total liabilities
Total equity$10.09B$12.47B$12.94B$12.63B$11.87B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures (free cash flow is operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, which can differ from a company’s own definition); “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Diluted EPS includes discontinued operations where a company reports them. Cash & Equivalents excludes short-term investments and may include restricted cash where that is the figure the company tags. Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Operating cash flow$2.26B$3.82B$4.94B$6.12B$7.70B
Capital expenditure$1.88B$1.84B$1.53B$1.89B$1.96B
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures (free cash flow is operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, which can differ from a company’s own definition); “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Diluted EPS includes discontinued operations where a company reports them. Cash & Equivalents excludes short-term investments and may include restricted cash where that is the figure the company tags. Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$9.18B19.8%$559.0M$1.71
Q1 FY2026$7.20B-6.3%$125.0M$0.38
Q4 FY2025-9.2%—
Q3 FY2025$7.73B-10.2%$-890.0M$-2.77
Q2 FY2025$7.66B-11.8%$115.0M$0.34
Q1 FY2025$7.68B-7.6%$177.0M$0.54
Q4 FY2024261.8%—
Q3 FY2024$8.60B-19.0%$573.0M$1.75

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorMaterials
SIC industryIndustrial Organic Chemicals
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended June 30, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2017
SEC CIK1489393

Selected SEC filings

10-Q2026-07-31
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10-Q2026-05-01
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8-K2026-07-31
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8-K2026-05-29
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8-K2026-05-22
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8-K2026-05-01
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.