LyondellBasell LYB
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $51.69 and $74.2; nine in ten between $46 and $83.38.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 183 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 68% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −64%, peaking Jan 2018 and bottoming Dec 2025 — still unrecovered after 104 months.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $19,800
- Value today
- $18,766
- Return
- -5.2%
- Months invested
- 198
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $25,631 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -26.8%.
Lump sum instead — $19,800 all at once in Apr 2010: $54,987 (+177.7%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jan 2018): $8,080 on $10,500 invested (-23.0%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.
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About LyondellBasell
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. is an American multinational chemical company, incorporated in the Netherlands with U.S. operations headquartered in Houston, Texas and offices in London, UK. The company is the largest licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies. It also produces ethylene, propylene, polyolefins, and oxyfuels. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under materials and specialty chemicals, with a market cap of about $20.0B.
It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.
What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and market / volatility (3.0/5).
Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.
Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.
Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.
Risk Profile
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/536.2
- Max drawdown from ATH3/563.9
- Beta vs S&P 5003/51.2
- Avg daily $ volume1/5292.4m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity3/51.1
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility5/5100
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate
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