How to buy LSB Industries stock

LSB Industries, Inc is a chemicals business based in the US. LSB Industries shares (LXU) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. LSB Industries employs 573 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

LSB Industries share price

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LSB Industries shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-30.

52-week range	$1.00 - $6.69
50-day moving average	$5.34
200-day moving average	$3.69
Wall St. target price	$9.65
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$-2.71

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Is LSB Industries under- or over-valued?

Valuing LSB Industries stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of LSB Industries's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

LSB Industries's EBITDA

LSB Industries's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $55.3 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a LSB Industries's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

LSB Industries financials

Revenue TTM	$351.3 million
Gross profit TTM	$17 million
Return on assets TTM	-0.91%
Return on equity TTM	-13.7%
Profit margin	-17.62%
Book value	$5.02
Market capitalisation	$191.6 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting LSB Industries shares

There are currently 407,643 LSB Industries shares held short by investors – that's known as LSB Industries's "short interest". This figure is 11.5% down from 460,762 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting LSB Industries shares can be evaluated.

LSB Industries's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

LSB Industries's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of LSB Industries shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of LSB Industries shares traded daily (recently around 156785.76923077). LSB Industries's SIR currently stands at 2.6. In other words for every 100,000 LSB Industries shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2600 shares are currently held short.

However LSB Industries's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of LSB Industries shares, or, against the total number of tradable LSB Industries shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case LSB Industries's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 LSB Industries shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0203% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable LSB Industries shares, roughly 20 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against LSB Industries.

Find out more about how you can short LSB Industries stock.

LSB Industries share dividends

We're not expecting LSB Industries to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have LSB Industries's shares ever split?

LSB Industries's shares were split on a 105:100 basis on 13 June 1982. So if you had owned 100 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 105 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your LSB Industries shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 4.8% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for LSB Industries shares which in turn could have impacted LSB Industries's share price.

LSB Industries share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, LSB Industries's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1 up to $6.69. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while LSB Industries's is 2.4313. This would suggest that LSB Industries's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.

LSB Industries overview

LSB Industries, Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells chemical products in the United States. It provides nitrogen-based fertilizers, such as ammonia, fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate (HDAN), and urea ammonia nitrate for fertilizer and fertilizer blends for corn and other crops, and NPK fertilizer blends applications. The company also offers high purity and commercial grade ammonia, high purity ammonium nitrate, sulfuric acids, mixed nitrating acids, carbon dioxide, and diesel exhaust fluids, as well as concentrated, blended, and regular nitric acids for various applications, including semi-conductor and polyurethane intermediates; pulp and paper, alum, water treatment, metals, and vanadium processing; power plant emissions abatement, water treatment, refrigerants, and metals processing; and exhaust stream additive, and horticulture/greenhouse applications; and refrigeration. In addition, it provides industrial grade ammonium nitrate, ammonium nitrate solutions, and HDAN solutions for the specialty emulsions for mining, surface mining, quarries, and construction applications. The company sells its products through distributors, as well as directly to end customers. It serves to the agricultural, industrial, and mining markets.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of LSB Industries is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 16.844% of LSB Industries shares are held by insiders and 44.321% by institutions.

• How many people work for LSB Industries?

  Latest data suggests 573 work at LSB Industries.

• When does the fiscal year end for LSB Industries?

  LSB Industries's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is LSB Industries based?

  LSB Industries's address is: 3503 NW 63rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, 73116-2238

• What is LSB Industries's ISIN number?

  LSB Industries's international securities identification number is: US5021601043

• What is LSB Industries's CUSIP number?

  LSB Industries's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 502160104