LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -2.16% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $63.91.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $65.32, falling within a range of $63.5 and $64.5. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.842 whereas the PE ratio is 19.76 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $100.46, and the low was $51.11. On the whole, LYB has fluctuated by 5.50% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of LyondellBasell Industries NV currently standing at about $20.54 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-25. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.39, with its dividend yield at 8.43%.
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 Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 4.48, with the price of LYB currently trading nearly 5.60% and 8.70% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 60.79, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.46% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.89%. Furthermore, LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB)’s beta value is 0.84.
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 -2.16% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -13.95%%.
Data on historical trading for LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 3.43 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.02 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 322.95 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 20.39% of LyondellBasell Industries NV’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 74.10% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 11.15 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 2.59. According to the data, the short interest in LyondellBasell Industries NV (LYB) stood at 347.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 9.62 million. The stock has fallen by -31.43% 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.
