QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Major Chemicals
LyondellBasell Industries NV LYB
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 17% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $118.34+72%
- Market Value
- forming
- Off 52-wk high
- −17%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta −0.64
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $68.64
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$42.28−38.4%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$68.64you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$82.38+20.0%
- Fair value est.base case$118.34+72.4%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 3.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 1.0%; bull = 8.5% and 5.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, LYB’s free cash flow would need to shrink about 7% a year for five years; our estimate uses 3%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much LYB moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Has moved mostly independently of the market, but its own price swings are 3.3× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- -0.64
- Volatility
- 43% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- −0.19
- Correlation QQQ
- −0.20
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $118.34, 72% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 10.9% (price / FCF 9.2×): $2.4B of free cash in the last 12 months.
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 227% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
ValuationP/E of 17.0× vs a 27.5× median for the 130 Industrials companies we cover.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 5.0% ($1.1B paid over 12 months, 86% of earnings).
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −1.4% in FY2025 from 8.2% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales shrank 16% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity fell 24 points in two fiscal years, to -7% in FY2025.
ProfitabilityGross margin narrowed to 8.5% in FY2025 from 14.7% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 6.1× EBITDA (limit 3×).
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on LyondellBasell Industries NV in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Major Chemicals
All fundamentals
P/E 17.0 · FCF yield 10.9% · ROE 12%
Valuation
- P/E
- 17.0×Industrials median 27.5×
- Price / FCF
- 9.2×
- FCF yield
- 10.9%
- EV / EBITDA
- 6.9×
- Price / sales
- 0.69×
- Price / book
- 1.97×
- Market cap
- $22.2Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $29.2B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $32.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +3.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −15.8%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $3.97
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- $1.3B
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 14.3%
- Operating margin
- 8.6%
- Net margin
- 4.1%
- FCF margin
- 7.6%
- Return on equity
- 12%
- Return on invested capital
- 12%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $5.3B
- Total debt
- $12.3B
- Net cash
- −$7.0B
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
- Interest coverage
- 5.1×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $2.4B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +227%
- Dividend yield
- 5.03%$1.1B paid
- Payout ratio
- 86%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $0
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- $101M
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From LyondellBasell Industries NV’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $118.34 · FCF value $128.50
Assumes 3.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew -15.8% a year FY22–FY25; floored at 3%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $7.47 a share (trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Oct 30, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 68 · 5 days +3.3%
The business
FCF $1.6B · Sales +20%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$1.6B
- Free-cash-flow yield7.5%
- Free-cash-flow margin5%
- Gross margin13%
- Operating margin7%
- Return on invested capital8%
- Return on equity−3%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+20%
- Net debt / EBITDA6.1×
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
LYB is outside our quality screen
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