LyondellBasell LYB
- Employees
- 18,970
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX
- Next results
- around Jan 29, 2027
Where each dollar of revenue went, FY2024
Revenue of $33.4B through the costs to a net profit of $1.4B · income statement of the 10-K
LYB among Materials peers
Six ratios from the latest 10-K. Each corner is the share of 23 peers the company is above, not a score.
What changed
1 accounting fact worth reading about.
Each row opens the detail with the quote and the filing. A row is a change worth reading, not a verdict.
Accounting checks
10 checks on the latest 10-K. Checks, not verdicts.
1fact worth reading about the other 9 checks found nothing to note
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Critical audit matters changedNew this year: Income Taxes - Identification and recognition of liabilities for Unrecognized Tax Benefits (“As described in Notes 2 and 18 to the consolidated financial statements, as of December 31, 2025, the Company has recorded liabilities of $239 million for unrecognized tax benefits. The Company operates in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world, and its tax returns are periodically audited or s”); Interim Goodwill Impairment Test - A Certain Reporting Unit within the Advanced Polymer Solutions (APS) Segment (“As described in Notes 2 and 9 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s goodwill balance was $708 million as of December 31, 2025. Goodwill is tested for impairment annually in the fourth quarter or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the fair value of a reporting”). No longer listed: Taxation - Provisions for unrecognized tax benefits
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Cash from operations $2.3B vs net income −$738.0M (FY ending Dec 31, 2025)
8 more checks with nothing to note
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Inventory -24.2% vs revenue -9.7% (-14.4 pts)
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Same auditor in both 10-Ks: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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No statement of substantial doubt about going concern
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No 8-K item 4.02 in the last 2 years
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No NT 10-K or NT 10-Q in the last 2 years
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No sentence in the 10-K concludes that controls were not effective because of a material weakness
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No 8-K item 2.06 in the last 2 years
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No 8-K item 1.03 in the last 2 years
In their words
No new paragraphs in Risk Factors
No new paragraphs in Risk Factors, or fewer than two 10-Ks to compare.
New risk paragraphs, against peers
Latest 10-K of each, Materials companies closest in revenue
Paragraphs in Risk Factors with nothing like them in the company's 10-K the year before. A count of text, not of risk.
Financial performance
Last 4 fiscal years · 10-K XBRL
| Metric | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $50.5B | $33.3B | $33.4B | $30.2B |
| Net income | $3.9B | $2.1B | $1.4B | −$738.0M |
| Operating cash flow | $6.1B | $4.9B | $3.8B | $2.3B |
| Free cash flow | $4.2B | $3.4B | $2.0B | $384.0M |
Revenue, FY2016 to FY2025
Ten fiscal years, each from its own 10-K · XBRL · USD
$30.2B ▼ 9.7% in FY2025−$738.0M in FY2025$384.0M ▼ 80.6% in FY2025
Recent filings
2 filings in the last 30 days · SEC EDGAR
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8-KOct 30, 2026Quarterly results, Other events 8-K items 2.02, 8.01
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10-QOct 30, 2026Quarterly report (10-Q) period ended Sep 30, 2026
About the company
LyondellBasell, Houston, TX · from the 10-K filed Feb 20, 2026
- Headquarters
- Houston, TX
- Country
- United States
- Reports in
- USD
- Listed on
- NYSE
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31
- Last results
- Oct 30, 2026
- Incorporated in
- Netherlands
Employees, at the top of the page: "Demographics - As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 18,970 employees, a decrease of approximately 7% when compared to 2024, driven by fixed cost reductions attributable to our cash improvement plan and Houston Refinery shutdown" (10-K). Address and exchange: SEC's company file.
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Sources
Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks; filings from SEC EDGAR.
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