All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
All nine metrics read as filed from the record.
What did they actually do?
Has it survived what it has been through?
1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2026-03-09.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2026-03-09) (its current reports).
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What has it actually done, year after year?
+5.7% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 5 of 10.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $375 million in fiscal 2016 to $615 million in fiscal 2025, up 5.7% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 42% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How has it treated the people who own it?
Share count shrank 5.6% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 35 sales, 3 purchases.
From the record
Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Lsb Industries Inc's diluted share count shrank about 5.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 35 sales (35 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-26, buying about $31 thousand (their Form 4 filings).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they doing right now?
Is it financially healthy right now?
ROE 5%: 5¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 56%: owes 56¢ per asset dollar.
From the record
Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Lsb Industries Inc earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 9 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 56 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How strong is its position in its industry?
bottom 39% of 9 in its family; net margin 4%.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $615 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 28% by size; a net margin of 4% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of -12% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 6% (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are the people in charge doing?
bottom 36% of 9 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Behrman, Mark T (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-01-02, 7.9 years (top 36% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.3 years (bottom 39%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (bottom 5%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they set up to do next?
How much room does it have to grow?
bottom 40% of 9 in its family for room to expand.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $20 million against debt of $440 million leaves -35.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 15% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.9% of revenue (top 39%); a gross margin of 17% (bottom 44%) (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What could actually drive growth from here?
top 38% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -12% a year over the last three filed years against 5.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 6% of its family); the newest year grew 17.8% (top 6%); capital spending grew 19.1% a year (top 15%) (its annual reports). Lsb Industries Inc tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?
top 19% of 9 in its family for expectations against reality.
From the record
Lsb Industries Inc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $615 million in fiscal 2025 came in 54.7% above the $398 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 6% of its family); net income of $25 million against a prior three-year average of $80 million (top 25%); a net margin of 4% against 8.8% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made