How to use this LyondellBasell investment calculator
This page shows how LyondellBasell stock has performed historically and links to year-specific investment calculators. Use the calculators below to see exactly what a $1,000 investment made in any year would be worth today. Each calculator shows total return, annualised growth rate (CAGR), and an interactive price chart.
LyondellBasell Investment Calculators
Select a year to see stock price return from that year to today:
stock price return 2024 ▼ 38.4%
stock price return 2023 ▼ 29.2%
stock price return 2022 ▼ 36.2%
stock price return 2021 ▼ 33.4%
stock price return 2020 ▼ 36.6%
stock price return 2019 ▼ 29.1%
stock price return 2018 ▼ 47%
stock price return 2017 ▼ 31.5%
stock price return 2016 ▼ 22.1%
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What Drives LyondellBasell Stock Returns?
LyondellBasell makes the plastic building blocks that end up in everything from food packaging to car parts. The Houston-based giant is the world's largest licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies, which means other companies pay them for the know-how to produce these essential plastics. They also manufacture the raw materials themselves - ethylene, propylene, and various polyolefins that feed into countless supply chains. This puts them squarely in competition with chemical heavyweights like Dow and ExxonMobil Chemical. What sets LyondellBasell apart is their technology licensing business, which generates steady royalty income even when commodity chemical prices get volatile. They're essentially selling the recipe while also competing in the kitchen. The stock tends to move with oil prices and economic cycles, since their products are petrochemical derivatives and demand tracks industrial activity. Investors watch this one for its hefty dividend yields during good times and its exposure to global manufacturing trends. When the economy hums, packaging demand surges and LyondellBasell typically prints cash. The company formed through Basell's $12.7 billion acquisition of Lyondell in 2007, creating what became the third largest independent chemical manufacturer in the U.S. That scale matters in a business where plant utilization rates drive profitability.
LyondellBasell Historical Performance
LyondellBasell has behaved as a classic cyclical stock, with returns closely tied to commodity cycles and economic conditions rather than steady growth. The chemical giant's performance swings dramatically based on polyethylene and polypropylene pricing, refining margins, and global manufacturing demand. This creates periods of strong outperformance followed by sharp declines, making it fundamentally different from steady dividend growers or consistent compounders. The stock experienced distinct phases during our data period, including periods of significant gains driven by favorable petrochemical spreads and times of steep losses during commodity downturns and economic uncertainty. Entry timing proved critical for investors, as purchasing during commodity lows versus peaks could mean the difference between substantial gains and prolonged losses. LyondellBasell represents the type of investment where understanding industrial cycles matters more than traditional growth metrics. Use our year-by-year calculators to see how different entry points would have performed, particularly noting how returns varied based on broader economic conditions and energy price movements during each period.
LyondellBasell Stock Splits
During our tracked period from 2016 to present, LyondellBasell has not executed any stock splits. The company has maintained its existing share structure without adjusting the number of outstanding shares through split transactions. This means shareholders have retained their original share quantities throughout this timeframe, with no dilution or multiplication of holdings due to corporate split actions. The absence of splits indicates LyondellBasell's management has chosen to maintain the stock's current price range and share count structure. Our historical calculators and analysis tools automatically account for any stock splits when they occur, ensuring accurate performance calculations and comparisons across different time periods.
No stock splits recorded in our data period.
LyondellBasell Dividends & Total Returns
LyondellBasell has paid dividends throughout our data period, with 41 payments totaling $64.23 from 2016 through 2025. These dividend payments represent additional returns that stockholders receive beyond any stock price appreciation. The return calculations shown in our analysis reflect price changes only and do not include these dividend payments. For LyondellBasell investors, actual total returns would be higher than our displayed price returns once these dividend payments are factored in. The $64.23 in total dividend payments per share represents a meaningful component of the stock's overall investment returns during this period.