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LyondellBasell Industries N.v. LYB

15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
12 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$30.2B
▼ 9.7% YoY
$-738.0M
▼ 154.0% YoY
$384.0M
▼ 80.6% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

LyondellBasell operates large processing plants that convert liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon feedstocks into plastic resins and other chemicals. Its plastics and chemicals are used by customers to manufacture products including food packaging, home furnishings, automotive components, paints and coatings. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately 18,970 employees. On that date it owned approximately 5,000 patents and patent applications worldwide. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of total revenues in 2025. Operations are managed through five operating segments: Olefins and Polyolefins-Americas, Olefins and Polyolefins-Europe, Asia, International, Intermediates and Derivatives, Advanced Polymer Solutions and Technology. The Technology segment develops and licenses chemical and polyolefin process technologies and manufactures and sells polyolefin catalysts. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. was incorporated as a Naamloze Vennootschap under Dutch law on October 15, 2009.

Written from the business description in LYONDELLBASELL INDUSTRIES N.V.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 30.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 15-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 30.2 · Net income -0.7
20B40B
201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−15.8%
+1.7%
−0.8%
+5.1%
+5.3%
+6.0%
−18.8%
+6.9%
−10.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +1.7% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−2 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -1.4% · Net -2.4%
5%10%15%-1%-2%
201120182025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -6.5%
20%40%60%
201120182025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity lost 7 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 2.0B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 0.4
2.5B5.0B
201120182025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 1.8 · Net buybacks 0.2
3B6BDividendsNet buybacks
20112013201520172019202120232025

USD 1.8B in dividends and USD 201.0M in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 34.0B
EquityUSD 10.1B
CashUSD 3.4B
Gross debtUSD 12.3B
Net debtUSD 8.9B
Current ratio1.77×

Net debt stands at 88% of equity.

The 15-year record

15 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
LYB, 15-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011
Revenue $B30.233.433.350.546.227.834.739.034.529.232.745.644.145.448.2
Operating income $B−0.41.92.75.16.81.64.15.25.55.16.15.75.14.74.3
EBITDA $B1.03.44.36.48.22.95.46.56.66.17.26.86.15.75.3
Income tax $B0.10.30.40.91.2−0.00.60.60.61.41.71.51.11.31.1
Net income $B−0.71.42.13.95.61.43.44.74.93.84.54.23.92.82.1
Free cash flow $B0.42.03.44.25.71.52.33.43.73.44.44.53.33.71.8
EPS, diluted $−2.344.156.4611.8116.754.249.5812.0112.239.139.597.996.754.923.74
Dividend / sh $5.455.274.944.704.444.204.154.003.553.333.042.702.004.205.05
Payout %−239126768326984333293632342985135
ROE %−6.510.816.631.856.717.837.148.865.160.960.240.232.726.220.3
Shares out B0.320.320.320.330.330.330.330.380.390.400.440.490.550.580.57

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 46 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 15 of the 15 fiscal years we could check. Eight checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2011. Four checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2011. Four checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2011.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityIndustrial Organic Chemicals
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code P7
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2010

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