LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.81% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $56.96.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $55.94, falling within a range of $56.3 and $57.28. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.915 whereas the PE ratio is 13.75 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $107.02, and the low was $51.11. On the whole, LYB has fluctuated by -22.68% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of LyondellBasell Industries NV currently standing at about $18.39 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-30. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.36, with its dividend yield at 9.41%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 31.32B, with a low estimate of 6.66B and a high estimate of 8.77B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 7.41B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that LYB’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.36, with the price of LYB currently trading nearly -9.97% and -19.50% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 36.10, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.49% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.21%. Furthermore, LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB)’s beta value is 0.92, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.25.
A comparison of LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. LYB showed an intraday change of 1.81% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -42.56%%.
Data on historical trading for LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.7 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.51 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 323.89 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 20.41% of LyondellBasell Industries NV’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 72.70% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 8.13 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.36. According to the data, the short interest in LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB) stood at 315.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 5.65 million. The stock has fallen by -23.31% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the LYB stock heading into the next quarter.
