LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB)

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $29 billion in fiscal 2016 to $30 billion in fiscal 2025, up 0.4% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 40% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, LyondellBasell Industries N.V. lost about 7 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 8 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 70 cents per dollar of assets (the filed statements).

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s standing among 20 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $30 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of -2.4% ranks in the top 37%; revenue growth of -15.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 18% (its annual reports).

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Vanacker, Peter Z. E. (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-05-25, 4.5 years (top 34% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (top 37%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (top 9%; 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.

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3.4 billion against debt of $12 billion leaves -25.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 21% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.3% of revenue (top 37%); a gross margin of 8.5% (bottom 47%); research spending of 0.5% of revenue (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -15.8% a year over the last three filed years against 0.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 29% of its family); the newest year grew -9.7% (bottom 39%); research spending grew 3.1% a year (top 42%); capital spending grew -0.2% a year (top 44%) (its annual reports). LyondellBasell Industries N.V. 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.

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LyondellBasell Industries N.V.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $30 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 11% above the $27 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 29% of its family); net income of $738 million against a prior three-year average of $2.5 billion (bottom 24%); a net margin of -2.4% against 6.1% before (bottom 34%) (its annual reports).