Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for LYB in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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LyondellBasell Industries (LYB) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$58.27+0.13 (+0.2%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryThis week's public disclosures for LyondellBasell (LYB) are limited to routine institutional filings noting adjustments to existing fund positions, with no other company-specific news reported.
LYB closes at $58.27, up 0.2%, sitting between its 50-day average of $62.60 and 200-day average of $61.77, a mixed trend. The shares are down 7.6% over the past month but up 8.7% over three months and up 19% over the past year, within a 52-week range of $41.58 to $83.94. The GekkoIndex reads 67.2, in the Accumulation zone, up 2.6 points over five days, while price sits 12.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $66.48.
Over the next 20 trading days, earnings are due 30 October 2026, 31 days out, beyond a typical short-term hold. Options activity shows 2 unusual signals in the past 30 days, with put premium of $2.3 million and no call premium in that period. One billionaire holder is recorded among current positions. Seasonality over five years averages a 0.4% 20-day return from this point in the calendar, rising in 2 of those years. Analyst consensus across 12 firms stands at 6 buy, 4 hold and 2 sell ratings, with a target of $68.59, implying 17.7% upside.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
LyondellBasell Industries price vs fair value
Close $58.27200-day averageGekko Fair Value $66.48
LyondellBasell Industries quick facts
- Market cap
- $18.81B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Forward P/E
- 9.1
- EPS, TTM
- −$0.83
- Revenue, TTM
- $31.19B
- Profit margin
- -1.1%
- Dividend yield
- 6.87%
- Beta
- 0.35
- Volume
- 3.19M avg 3.59M
- 1-year return
- +19.0%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.8%
- 50-day average
- $62.60
- 200-day average
- $61.77
- Next earnings
- Oct 30
- Shares outstanding
- 323.0M
LyondellBasell Industries swing-trade checklist
LyondellBasell Industries scores 3 supportive, 2 mixed and 1 headwind across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive2 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $58.27 sits between the 50-day ($62.60) and 200-day ($61.77) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
67.2, Accumulation
Reading 67.2 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
12.3% below
Price is 12.3% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyheadwind
Leans bearish
Last 30 days: 2 unusual options signals.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 31 days
Next report Oct 30, 2026, 31 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitymixed
+0.4% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +0.4% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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LyondellBasell Industries stock chart and price history
LyondellBasell Industries closed at $58.27 on Sep 28, 2026, +19.0% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $41.58 to $83.94.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −7.6%
- 3 months
- +8.7%
- 6 months
- −27.6%
- 1 year
- +19.0%
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About LyondellBasell Industries
LyondellBasell Industries makes chemical products used in industries worldwide, with a core focus on olefins and polyolefins. Among its output are high, low, and linear low-density polyethylene, plus polypropylene in both homopolymer and copolymer forms, sold to customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company has built a name for supplying these polymer materials at scale to manufacturers who turn them into finished goods.
Beyond its main polymer lines, LyondellBasell produces intermediate chemicals and derivative products, among them propylene oxide, oxyfuels, styrene monomers, acetyls, and compounds derived from ethylene. It also makes polymer solutions such as engineered plastics, polypropylene compounds, masterbatches, composites, colors, and powders. Its business is divided into six segments, and its work stretches into refining crude oil to yield gasoline and distillates, developing and licensing technology used in chemical and polyolefin processes, and producing catalysts for polyolefin manufacturing. The company runs operations in locations including the United States, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Poland, France, Japan, China, and the Netherlands.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, LyondellBasell Industries traces its founding to 2009. Its stock trades on the NYSE under the ticker LYB.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: specialty
- Website
- lyondellbasell.com
LyondellBasell Industries GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
LyondellBasell Industries’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 67.2, in the Accumulation zone, up 2.6 points over five sessions.
67.2Accumulation
Up 2.6 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 62 | −0.6% | −0.3% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 256 | −0.6% | −2.5% | ||
| Neutral | 333 | −0.1% | +0.2% | ||
| Distribution | 20 | +3.4% | +6.8% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average LYB share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is LyondellBasell Industries stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
LyondellBasell Industries trades 12.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $66.48, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what LyondellBasell Industries shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$66.48
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
12.3% Undervalued
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LyondellBasell Industries insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for LyondellBasell Industries, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in LYB were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
LyondellBasell Industries has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Dec 31, 2025
- $201.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 1.07%
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
2signals, 0% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bearish flow on Sep 17, $1.06M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
1of the funds Gekko tracks holds LYB.
1added0opened0trimmed3sold out
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LyondellBasell Industries earnings: next date and track record
LyondellBasell Industries reports on Oct 30, 2026 (31 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 30, 2026
31 days away
- EPS estimate
- $2.65
- Revenue estimate
- $8.86B
4 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±2.7%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 31, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- LYB reported Q2 EBITDA margin of 23%, driven by Middle East conflict-related disruptions that improved petrochemical market conditions. The company completed divestitures of 4 European assets and plans to close its Brindisi site, reshaping its portfolio toward advantaged assets. Approximately 6 million tons (20-25%) of Middle East polyethylene capacity sustained damage and won't restart until at least 2027. Safety performance remains strong with a 0.1% total recordable incident rate.
- Guidance
- Management expects market normalization to extend beyond the current year, with pricing likely remaining above pre-conflict levels. Middle East polyethylene capacity recovery is measured in quarters, not months, with significant capacity offline until at least 2027. Chinese polyethylene inventory drawdowns may support import demand.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | $4.30 est $3.44 | $9.18B est $9.21B | +0.3% |
| May 1, 2026 | $0.49 est $0.28 | $7.20B est $7.53B | +1.9% |
| Jan 30, 2026 | −$0.26 est $0.11 | $7.09B est $6.80B | +0.6% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | $1.01 est $0.81 | $7.73B est $7.41B | +2.4% |
| Aug 1, 2025 | $0.62 est $0.81 | $7.66B est $7.52B | −12.1% |
| Apr 25, 2025 | $0.54 est $0.36 | $7.68B est $7.41B | −0.9% |
| Jan 31, 2025 | $0.75 est $1.28 | $9.50B est $9.22B | +0.2% |
| Nov 1, 2024 | $1.88 est $1.96 | $10.32B est $10.60B | −3.1% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
LyondellBasell Industries stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for LyondellBasell Industries is $68.59, +17.7% from the last close, from 12 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$68.59consensus 12-month target, +17.7% from the last close
Now $58.27Avg $68.59
Low $56High $83
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 12 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25 | UBS | $62 | +6.4% |
| Sep 21 | Wells Fargo | $70 | +20.1% |
| Sep 11 | KeyBanc | — | — |
| Aug 4 | Morgan Stanley | $72 | +23.6% |
| Aug 4 | Citi | $72 | +23.6% |
−2.5%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+0.4%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.4%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
LyondellBasell Industries seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 26, LyondellBasell Industries averaged +0.4% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +1.5% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +0.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +0.5% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +0.4% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −2.3% | 1 of 5 |
For scale, LYB’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.8%.
LyondellBasell Industries market cap and key statistics
LyondellBasell Industries’s market cap is $18.81B and revenue of $31.19B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $18.81B
- Forward P/E
- 9.1
- EPS, TTM
- −$0.83
- Gekko Fair Value
- $66.48
Trading
- Volume
- 3.19M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 3.59M
- 52-week high
- $83.94
- 52-week low
- $41.58
- Shares outstanding
- 323.0M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $31.19B
- Profit margin
- -1.1%
- Return on equity
- -2.3%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +396.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.35
- Typical daily move
- ±3.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±4.8%
- Dividend yield
- 6.87%
LyondellBasell Industries stock news this week
2 headlines about LyondellBasell Industries from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
LyondellBasell Industries peers
LyondellBasell Industries’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| LINLinde | Accumulation | 2.8% below |
| ECLEcolab | Neutral | 8.2% above |
| APDAir Products and Chemicals | Accumulation | 11.9% below |
| DOWDow | Accumulation | 34.3% below |
| ALBAlbemarle | Accumulation | 24.7% below |
| WLKWestlake | Accumulation | 25.7% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
LyondellBasell Industries stock FAQ
What is LyondellBasell Industries’s market cap?
LyondellBasell Industries’s market cap is $18.81B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $58.27, with 323.0M shares outstanding.
What is the LyondellBasell Industries stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for LyondellBasell Industries is $68.59, +17.7% from the last close. Of the 12 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 6 rate it a buy, 4 a hold and 2 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is LyondellBasell Industries stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate LyondellBasell Industries is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $58.27 is 12.3% below Gekko Fair Value of $66.48. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does LyondellBasell Industries report earnings next?
LyondellBasell Industries is expected to report on Oct 30, 2026 (31 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $2.65 per share on revenue of $8.86B. LyondellBasell Industries beat the earnings estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports, moving 2.7% on average across the report.
What is LyondellBasell Industries’s 52-week high and low?
LyondellBasell Industries’s 52-week high is $83.94 and its 52-week low is $41.58; it closed at $58.27 on Sep 28, 2026, +19.0% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $117.22 on May 31, 2022.
Is LyondellBasell Industries stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and earnings risk), 2 as mixed (trend and seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (smart money). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in LyondellBasell Industries?
Gekko flagged 2 unusual options signals in LyondellBasell Industries over the last 30 days, with $0 of flagged premium in calls and $2.32M in puts. The latest, bearish flow, was on Sep 17, 2026 with $1.06M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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