NYSE:LXU Lsb Industries Q3 2025 Earnings Report $14.09 -1.21 (-7.93%) Closing price 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$13.95 -0.14 (-0.97%) As of 07:41 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Lsb Industries EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.10Consensus EPS $0.07Beat/MissBeat by +$0.03One Year Ago EPSN/ALsb Industries Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$155.43 millionExpected Revenue$138.30 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$17.13 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ALsb Industries Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2025Date10/29/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, October 30, 2025Conference Call Time10:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Lsb Industries Q3 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrOctober 30, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Negative Sentiment: The company reported a tragic contractor fatality in early October after nine months of injury-free operations, noting it as a reminder to reinforce safety across sites. Positive Sentiment: LSB returned to free cash flow generation with approximately $36 million in Q3 and ~$20 million YTD, holding ~$150 million in cash and net leverage near 2x. Positive Sentiment: Market dynamics are supportive — UAN averaged $336/tonne in Q3 (up 65% YoY) and Tampa ammonia rose to $650/tonne in November amid global supply disruptions, which the company expects to help pricing into 2026. Positive Sentiment: The company completed the shift from HDAN to ammonium nitrate solution for explosives, is meeting 100% of those contractual obligations, and has moved to a more industrial-heavy, contractual sales mix that passes through ~35% of natural gas costs, improving earnings visibility. Neutral Sentiment: The El Dorado low‑carbon CO2 injection project is awaiting a technical permit review expected in Q1 with operations targeted by end‑2026 and an anticipated ~$15 million annual EBITDA contribution beginning mostly in 2027, but it remains subject to permit and execution risk. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLsb Industries Q3 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to the LSB Industries' Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press Star 0 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Kristy Carver, Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Thank you. You may begin. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:00:33Good morning everyone. Joining me today are Mark Behrman, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cheryl Maguire, our Chief Financial Officer, and Damian Renwick, our Chief Commercial Officer. Please note that today's call includes forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the company's current intent, expectations, and projections. They are not guarantees of future performance and a variety of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:01:06For more information about the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied by forward-looking statements, please see the risk factors set forth in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K. On the call, we will reference non-GAAP results. Please see the press release posted yesterday in the Investors section of our website lsbindustries.com for further information regarding forward-looking statements and reconciliations of non-GAAP results to GAAP results. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:01:41At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mark. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:01:46Thank you, Kristy, and good morning, everyone. As a company, we pride ourselves on safety first, and while our teams continue to focus on safe operations as evidenced by our first nine months of injury-free performance, it is with great sadness that I have to report that in early October a contractor working on our prior facility was fatally injured. Our hearts go out to his family and colleagues. This is a tragic reminder about why we put safety first and the importance of the need to remain focused on safety in everything we do. I am confident that our team will learn from this tragedy as we work together to ensure that everyone on our sites remains safe every day. With respect to third quarter financial results, market conditions remain constructive in both our industrial and fertilizer businesses. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:02:38After increased CapEx spending in 2024 and through the first half of 2025, where we elected to execute on several growth projects, we are back to generating free cash flow. We expect to finish the year having generated solid free cash flow, and we're well positioned to keep investing in our strategic priorities. We recognize that there's more work to do, and we see opportunities to continue to enhance our performance across the business. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:03:04Now I'll turn over the call to Damian to review current market dynamics and pricing trends. Damien? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:03:11Thanks Mark, and good morning everyone. Turning to page five, during the third quarter we completed our transition out of high-density AN for fertilizers and into AN solution for explosives. This moves us towards our stated goal of optimizing our sales mix. As a result, we are now supplying 100% of our AN solution contractual obligations to our customers. We continue to see strength in our industrial markets. Demand for AN for explosives is robust, particularly in the mining sector where strong gold and copper prices are boosting activity worldwide. Demand is also benefiting from quarrying aggregate production for infrastructure upgrade and expansion activity. We are seeing continued increases in domestic production of methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI, as a result of tariffs and anti-dumping duties on imported MDI. As a result, our nitric acid sales remained strong. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:04:17Turning to page six, pricing for UAN averaged $336 per ton on a NOLA basis in Q3, up 65% over Q3 2024. Prices continue to be supported by steady exports, lower imports, and strong demand, leading to below average inventory levels throughout the U.S. We expect these favorable dynamics to continue in the near term and position us well as we head into 2026. Urea prices moderated somewhat during the quarter, driven by the resumption of Chinese exports. However, with the results of the latest India urea tender now known, Chinese participation was minimal, and it appears that future exports will once again be restricted, supporting tight supply and higher prices. The ammonia market is healthy and pricing remains at attractive levels. Tampa ammonia increased by $60 to $650 per metric ton for the November settlement. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:05:24Tampa ammonia has now increased by almost $260 per ton, or 65%, since hitting its 2025 low of $392 per ton in June. The market continues to be dictated by ongoing unplanned supply disruptions from the Middle East, the higher cost of production in Europe, and continued delays in the startup of new production capacity in the U.S. Increased natural gas curtailments and other issues in Trinidad are also maintaining the pressure on global supply. In the U.S., we expect to see a typical fall ammonia application season, subject to seasonal weather outcomes. Now I'll turn the call over to Cheryl to discuss our third quarter financial results and our outlook. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:06:12Thanks Damian and good morning. On page seven you'll see a summary of our third quarter 2025 financial results. Solid third quarter volumes and net sales reflect the progress we are making on our reliability journey along with the absence of planned turnaround activity during the quarter. Page eight bridges our third quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $17 million to our third quarter 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $40 million. Higher pricing and increased sales volumes were somewhat offset by higher natural gas and other costs. Costs were higher in the third quarter, primarily related to the transition out of the HDAN business along with higher maintenance and operating costs. On page nine you can see that our balance sheet remains solid with approximately $150 million in cash and net leverage at approximately 2x. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:07:06After several quarters of heavy investment, we are back to generating free cash flow with approximately $20 million of free cash flow generated year-to-date and approximately $36 million in the third quarter, and we expect to continue to build on that in the fourth quarter. Turning to the fourth quarter outlook, Tampa ammonia settled at $650 per metric ton for November, up from $590 per ton for October, and NOLA UAN has averaged above $300 per ton so far this quarter. Additionally, Henry Hub natural gas cost is averaging approximately $3.45 per MMBtu, but is expected to trend higher as we approach seasonally cooler temperatures. With the transition of our HDAN business into industrial grade, approximately 35% of our natural gas costs are passed through in our selling price to customers. This provides improved visibility into our earnings profile. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:08:10Overall, we'd expect the fourth quarter of 2025 to be higher than the prior year fourth quarter due to higher selling prices and higher production, somewhat offset by higher variable and other costs. Now I'll turn it back over to Mark. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:08:27Thank you, Cheryl. Page 10 is an overview of our low-carbon project at our El Dorado facility. We continue to expect the technical review of our permit to be completed in the first quarter of next year, with operations to then begin by the end of 2026. We're excited about this opportunity as we expect to generate approximately $15 million in annual EBITDA from the project, with the majority of it beginning in 2027. Our El Dorado CCS injection project is a good example of how our industry can decarbonize and provide customers with low-carbon ammonia and derivative products in a cost-effective manner. We have made strong progress in the first nine months of 2025, driven by increased production volumes of ammonia, UAN, and AN, and expect to end the year in line with our total sales volume targets set out at the beginning of the year. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:09:20We've also continued to successfully shift our sales mix towards more contractual industrial sales, which allows us to pass through natural gas costs to our customers and provides us with greater earnings stability and visibility. At the same time, we've reduced our outstanding debt and continue to maintain a healthy cash balance while we evaluate several growth opportunities and continue to invest in the reliability and efficiency of our plants. I remain extremely optimistic about the future of our company, both for the remainder of the year and looking ahead to 2026. The market outlook remains robust, and we are well positioned to continue to improve our operational and financial performance while delivering sustainable growth and profitability. Before we open it up for questions, I'd like to mention that we will be participating in the NYSE Industrials virtual conference on November 18th and 19th. We look forward to speaking with some of you at this event. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:10:16That concludes our prepared remarks, and we will now be happy to take your questions. Thanks. Operator00:10:23Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Lucas Beaumont with UBS. Please proceed with your question. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:11:00Thank you. Good morning. I just wanted to sort of start on the ammonia market. It's been tight with the limited supply, and the ammonia contracts continue to kind of move higher. Sort of depending on what we assume there for December, it looks like pricing could be up $130 sequentially, if not more, into the fourth quarter. I guess just kind of what's your view on the market there generally to begin with? Then, assuming we see sort of a large kind of increase somewhere in that range, how should we think about that flowing through to your fourth quarter pricing? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:11:35Morning, Lucas. At a high level, it is a tight supply and demand market globally. On top of that, clearly we've got some issues going on in Trinidad that are affecting the market today and could have long term effects on the market. I think also while it's a little early, we feel like we're going to have a really healthy fall ammonia application season. I think everything's really setting up to have good demand, certainly in the United States and globally, a bit tighter supply. That's why you're seeing pricing move up. I'll let Damian give a little bit more color on the market itself. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:12:19Yeah, good morning, Lucas. You know, again, like Mark said, this is a story about lack of supply more than anything else. You've got issues in the Middle East with the Martin plant in Saudi Arabia having a very extended outage for a significant volume of tons. Other issues as well. You've got the news coming out of Trinidad with production coming out of the market for who knows how long, and the market is just reacting to that. How long does that continue for? It'll continue for as long as that supply is out of the market. The wildcard is when does the new capacity come online in the U.S. Gulf? You know, there's indications that some of that could be up later this year or early next year. You know, who knows? The proof will be in the pudding when that happens. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:13:25I think just to add on to that, while that has been well known that that production's coming online and we could have some more supply in the marketplace, the wild card now is Trinidad and what happens there. Could that offset all or just partial some of that new demand, new supply coming on? Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:13:45Yeah. Lucas, in terms of how that pulls through in the financial results, as you know, we are tied to Tampa ammonia, and you will see that pull through in our pricing for the fourth quarter. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:14:00Great, thanks. I guess just thinking about UAN as we kind of headed into the spring here. We've sort of been seeing some sort of softness in pricing there a bit as euros sort of come off and we're out at a kind of high period of seasonal demand so far. It seems like that's probably going to continue to soften here a bit through the fourth quarter. Last year we had pretty strong price increases and tight local supply demand conditions as we sort of got into the spring. I was just wondering if you guys could talk us through how you see the setup for 2026 now. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:14:41Look, Lucas, I think we're a little more optimistic on UAN. We're well sold forward. I think, -- are prices softening at the moment? I mean, yeah, sure, urea has softened a little bit, but I think that's set up for a recovery shortly as that market tightens as Chinese exports exit their short entry in the last few months. The UAN market, I think producers are pretty comfortable here in the U.S. We all came out of last season with very little inventory, and, you know, there's been turnarounds, et cetera, in the last few months. I think that tight supply is set up to continue, and we're confident that prices will be pretty healthy heading into Q1 and then into Q2 into the application season. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:15:43Tim, just wanted to ask one on the volume side. There's been a bit of noise this year. With the shift in the turnaround timing and kind of just the impact on sort of volume in the product mix between 3Q and 4Q, it seemed that was probably like flowing through to sort of costs in a few different ways as well. I was just wondering if you could kind of help us understand sort of the impacts that you saw there in the third quarter and how you see the setup for the fourth quarter on the sort of the volume and the cost side due to that. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:16:17Yeah. If we're thinking about the third quarter, we did have some mix changes flowing through with the transition of HDAN into AN solution for the industrial markets. We did see some higher costs related to that. I believe that's what you're alluding to. Part of that is, look, we're switching rail cars, and with that comes higher maintenance costs as we change out the fleet. We've got to restore the other cars to original state, which does lead to some higher maintenance costs. You do see that pull through in the third quarter. As we're thinking about the fourth quarter, I think we would expect to see our ammonium nitrate, nitric acid volumes kind of in line with the third quarter. Ammonia as well, and UAN, I would suspect, would be a bit higher in the fourth quarter as compared to the third quarter. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:17:22Great, thank you. Operator00:17:26As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Wong with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Andrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital Markets00:17:39Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. With the stronger industrial demand, which appears to be continuing, how does that impact your negotiating position for contracts and margins you're able to secure? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:17:57That's a tough question, that one. Andrew, hi. Look, I think it's really going to depend on when those particular contracts expire and what's happening at the time. I mean, at any one time, we do have contracts rolling off, but they are typically smaller than some of our more substantial ones, which are under longer term durations. It would just come down to the specific situation. I think at the moment prices are healthy, and the broader happenings with Tampa ammonia and natural gas make the environment well set up to maintain or even increase prices if and when contracts expire. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:18:50I would just say that healthy overall nitrogen prices certainly help negotiating new contracts or renewal of new contracts when they come up for sale. Andrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital Markets00:19:04Okay, great, that's helpful. Just in terms of growth for LSB, given that stronger industrial backdrop, is that a path that we can expect to see LSB take in terms of spending on more upgrade capacity? If you were to take that path, do you maybe need to have some sort of backstop on longer term contracts to guarantee a certain return on those projects? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:19:31Yeah, Andrew, we're constantly looking at ways that we can increase our production capacity. We did a urea expansion up at our prior facility. There is a second urea expansion that is in the early stages of evaluation, and that might not necessarily just go to UAN. You know, we could enter the DEF market, which would be an industrial product. I think we're evaluating whether we want to do that or not. At El Dorado, we've talked in the past about an ammonia expansion there, and that ammonia expansion would probably add in the neighborhood of 100,000 tons. We are down a pathway to evaluate and really do our engineering studies to see if that really makes sense for us. Would we backstop that? I think at 100,000 tons, we're probably pretty comfortable. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:20:31If we did a big expansion, I think we would want to backstop it, as is a lot of our risk aversion for trying to lock in some returns for the investment of capital. I think we're not prepared yet to talk about the expansion. We'll wait until we get through our engineering studies, and if it makes sense and the board supports it, then we'll certainly announce it. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:00Okay, great. I appreciate that. Thank you. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:03Yeah. Operator00:21:06Our next question comes from the line of Laurence Alexander with Jefferies. Please proceed with your question. Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:21:12Good morning. Two, if I may. First, on the industrial market side of your business, can you just give a baseline for your seasonality going into next year with the current mix of contracts? How do you think about extending the amount of pre selling if there is any sort of fly up in ammonium nitrate prices? Secondly, with El Dorado, what's your current thoughts around changing your offtake structure or signing more offtake agreements as the project gets closer to completion? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:53Damien, I'll let you handle the first one. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:21:54Okay. Seasonality, Laurence, most of the offtake through the year is fairly ratable. We do see some seasonality in our industrial business for explosives, and that's simply related to weather. We've got sales up into the northern parts of the U.S. and into Canada, and when it gets cold, it becomes more difficult for those miners to blast and so mitigate some of that demand. We're well set up to manage that with our current infrastructure and arrangements with our customers. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:22:38As far as the project at El Dorado, Lawrence, are you referring to the carbon capture and sequestration project, or are you referring to if we were to expand our ammonia production capacity? Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:22:51Sticking to the CCS injection project? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:22:56Yeah. The CCS project, we've already got a negotiated per ton of CO2 sequestered rate with our partner Lapis Energy. That's already locked in. As you know, we're generating the CO2 today. We're just venting it in the air. The project here is to capture it, dehydrate it, compress it, and then sequester it in a well that is actually already drilled on our property. The real gating item here is just the permit, the Class 6 permit from the EPA to allow us to, or to allow Lapis to, really sequester the CO2. Obviously, once we get that, we need to build a compression facility. There are lots of those around the world, and that's not complicated technology. Whether we sign additional AN solution contracts or nitric acid customer contracts for those products at a premium, the team is working on that and certainly engaged in conversations with customers. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:24:08The other thing that we could do, and we spent a fair amount of time looking at, is you could sell in the interim the environmental attribute. There's a value to that as well. I think we're looking at all avenues to monetize the low-carbon ammonia and the environmental attribute that is associated with that. Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:24:33Thank you. Operator00:24:37A final reminder, if you would like to ask a question, press Star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from the line of Robert McGuire with Granite Research. Please proceed with your question. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:24:49Good morning. Could you please talk about UAN volumes? It looks like they're down from 150,000 to about 135,000 year over year. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:25:00Yeah, Rob, we did have a bit of a miss on our UAN production in the third quarter. I would say we didn't quite meet our expectations. We would expect to be in line with our expectations in the fourth quarter. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:25:16Okay, great. Can you talk, what's your revenue mix of Ag vs Industrial now that your HDAN is being sold as ANS into the mining markets? Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:25:28Hard to look at it on a revenue basis, Rob, because revenue is really going to be driven by what the pricing looks like at any given time. I think it's probably better to look at it from a volume or a tons perspective. I think from the industrial side, we're probably 40% to 45%, with the balance being on the ag market side. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:25:49Thank you. You talked about the proposed anti-dumping duties on imported MDI. Can you give us a little more color around the dynamics around that topic? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:26:00Yeah. Hi, Rob. That evaluation is currently working its way through all the typical formal proceedings here in the U.S. I think there's a preliminary determination that's out there, and we're awaiting the formal determination. That will then officially put in place the anti-dumping duties on Chinese MDI. The effect of that is we're seeing domestic producers ramp up their MDI production as much as possible, and nitric acid is a raw material into that production chain, which is pretty complex. I won't try and explain it to you, but we're seeing some pull through there and certainly efforts to increase production where possible. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:26:55Wonderful. Just one last question. Can you give us an update on your value creation initiatives? Mark, you told us about what may be up and coming, but just what's left where you're at in terms of your progress? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:27:10Oh boy, we have a lot left. I would say on our reliability and maintenance efforts, we've still got a fair amount of opportunity out there. Maybe we're somewhere between 25% and 50% complete with that. I really do believe we have a lot of opportunity to not only improve our reliability and therefore the production tons, but do it in a much more efficient manner, so lower cost. We're focused on both of those. When it comes to profit optimization, I think we outlined that there was probably $20 million or so that we expect to come from that, and we're somewhere again between 40% and 50% when it comes to that. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:28:10As far as some of the other initiatives that we have, the greatest thing about all of this is we're like kids in a candy store here. Every day, we're trying to solve for issues or improve the overall profitability of the company, and you sort of peel that onion back and then you find two other things that you can work on to really create value. I think it's a never ending process, to be honest. I do think that we'll give a lot more color, Rob, on our fourth quarter conference call, our year end conference call of exactly where we are and what we expect to achieve in 2026. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:28:57Thank you. Operator00:29:01We have no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to you for closing comments. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:29:08Thank you everyone on. Thank you for their interest and great questions. As you can tell, we're really excited about the business and where the markets are today. Stay tuned. Thanks so much. Operator00:29:20Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesKristy CarverSVP and TreasurerCheryl MaguireEVP and CFOAnalystsRobert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite ResearchLucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS GroupMark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB IndustriesDamian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB IndustriesAndrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital MarketsLaurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at JefferiesPowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckEarnings Release(8-K)Quarterly Report(10-Q) Lsb Industries Earnings HeadlinesRiverwater Micro Opportunities Strategy’s Investment Thesis for LSB Industries (LXU)May 6 at 10:30 AM | insidermonkey.comLSB Industries Earnings Call Signals Cash-Rich UpswingMay 4 at 11:17 PM | theglobeandmail.comYour book is insideThe "Sucker's Bet" Most New Options Traders Fall For Most people who try options lose money the same way. They don't know the rules. 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The company operates primarily through two segments: Fertilizer Solutions and Commodities Solutions. Through its Fertilizer Solutions segment, LSB produces primary nitrogen products—including anhydrous ammonia and technical-grade ammonium nitrate—that are sold to fertilizer distributors and agricultural retailers across North America. Its Commodities Solutions segment manufactures and sells nitric acid, sodium nitrate and other nitrate-based compounds for industrial applications such as mining, water treatment and specialty chemical production, as well as defense-related formulations used in munitions and pyrotechnics. Incorporated in 1969, LSB Industries has grown from a single production site to multiple manufacturing facilities strategically located in the central United States. These locations are chosen to provide access to key feedstocks, rail networks and customer distribution channels. By leveraging integrated production processes, the company seeks to optimize raw‐material use and control costs, helping to mitigate the effects of commodity price fluctuations. LSB’s footprint in states such as Oklahoma, Arkansas and Wyoming supports its ability to serve both domestic markets and export customers in Latin America. LSB’s management team combines industry veterans with technical experts in chemical engineering, plant operations and supply‐chain management. The company emphasizes safety and environmental stewardship at each facility, maintaining compliance with federal regulations and pursuing initiatives to reduce energy consumption and emissions. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings and welcome to the LSB Industries' Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press Star 0 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Kristy Carver, Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Thank you. You may begin. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:00:33Good morning everyone. Joining me today are Mark Behrman, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cheryl Maguire, our Chief Financial Officer, and Damian Renwick, our Chief Commercial Officer. Please note that today's call includes forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the company's current intent, expectations, and projections. They are not guarantees of future performance and a variety of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:01:06For more information about the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied by forward-looking statements, please see the risk factors set forth in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K. On the call, we will reference non-GAAP results. Please see the press release posted yesterday in the Investors section of our website lsbindustries.com for further information regarding forward-looking statements and reconciliations of non-GAAP results to GAAP results. Kristy CarverSVP and Treasurer at LSB Industries00:01:41At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mark. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:01:46Thank you, Kristy, and good morning, everyone. As a company, we pride ourselves on safety first, and while our teams continue to focus on safe operations as evidenced by our first nine months of injury-free performance, it is with great sadness that I have to report that in early October a contractor working on our prior facility was fatally injured. Our hearts go out to his family and colleagues. This is a tragic reminder about why we put safety first and the importance of the need to remain focused on safety in everything we do. I am confident that our team will learn from this tragedy as we work together to ensure that everyone on our sites remains safe every day. With respect to third quarter financial results, market conditions remain constructive in both our industrial and fertilizer businesses. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:02:38After increased CapEx spending in 2024 and through the first half of 2025, where we elected to execute on several growth projects, we are back to generating free cash flow. We expect to finish the year having generated solid free cash flow, and we're well positioned to keep investing in our strategic priorities. We recognize that there's more work to do, and we see opportunities to continue to enhance our performance across the business. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:03:04Now I'll turn over the call to Damian to review current market dynamics and pricing trends. Damien? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:03:11Thanks Mark, and good morning everyone. Turning to page five, during the third quarter we completed our transition out of high-density AN for fertilizers and into AN solution for explosives. This moves us towards our stated goal of optimizing our sales mix. As a result, we are now supplying 100% of our AN solution contractual obligations to our customers. We continue to see strength in our industrial markets. Demand for AN for explosives is robust, particularly in the mining sector where strong gold and copper prices are boosting activity worldwide. Demand is also benefiting from quarrying aggregate production for infrastructure upgrade and expansion activity. We are seeing continued increases in domestic production of methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI, as a result of tariffs and anti-dumping duties on imported MDI. As a result, our nitric acid sales remained strong. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:04:17Turning to page six, pricing for UAN averaged $336 per ton on a NOLA basis in Q3, up 65% over Q3 2024. Prices continue to be supported by steady exports, lower imports, and strong demand, leading to below average inventory levels throughout the U.S. We expect these favorable dynamics to continue in the near term and position us well as we head into 2026. Urea prices moderated somewhat during the quarter, driven by the resumption of Chinese exports. However, with the results of the latest India urea tender now known, Chinese participation was minimal, and it appears that future exports will once again be restricted, supporting tight supply and higher prices. The ammonia market is healthy and pricing remains at attractive levels. Tampa ammonia increased by $60 to $650 per metric ton for the November settlement. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:05:24Tampa ammonia has now increased by almost $260 per ton, or 65%, since hitting its 2025 low of $392 per ton in June. The market continues to be dictated by ongoing unplanned supply disruptions from the Middle East, the higher cost of production in Europe, and continued delays in the startup of new production capacity in the U.S. Increased natural gas curtailments and other issues in Trinidad are also maintaining the pressure on global supply. In the U.S., we expect to see a typical fall ammonia application season, subject to seasonal weather outcomes. Now I'll turn the call over to Cheryl to discuss our third quarter financial results and our outlook. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:06:12Thanks Damian and good morning. On page seven you'll see a summary of our third quarter 2025 financial results. Solid third quarter volumes and net sales reflect the progress we are making on our reliability journey along with the absence of planned turnaround activity during the quarter. Page eight bridges our third quarter 2024 adjusted EBITDA of $17 million to our third quarter 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $40 million. Higher pricing and increased sales volumes were somewhat offset by higher natural gas and other costs. Costs were higher in the third quarter, primarily related to the transition out of the HDAN business along with higher maintenance and operating costs. On page nine you can see that our balance sheet remains solid with approximately $150 million in cash and net leverage at approximately 2x. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:07:06After several quarters of heavy investment, we are back to generating free cash flow with approximately $20 million of free cash flow generated year-to-date and approximately $36 million in the third quarter, and we expect to continue to build on that in the fourth quarter. Turning to the fourth quarter outlook, Tampa ammonia settled at $650 per metric ton for November, up from $590 per ton for October, and NOLA UAN has averaged above $300 per ton so far this quarter. Additionally, Henry Hub natural gas cost is averaging approximately $3.45 per MMBtu, but is expected to trend higher as we approach seasonally cooler temperatures. With the transition of our HDAN business into industrial grade, approximately 35% of our natural gas costs are passed through in our selling price to customers. This provides improved visibility into our earnings profile. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:08:10Overall, we'd expect the fourth quarter of 2025 to be higher than the prior year fourth quarter due to higher selling prices and higher production, somewhat offset by higher variable and other costs. Now I'll turn it back over to Mark. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:08:27Thank you, Cheryl. Page 10 is an overview of our low-carbon project at our El Dorado facility. We continue to expect the technical review of our permit to be completed in the first quarter of next year, with operations to then begin by the end of 2026. We're excited about this opportunity as we expect to generate approximately $15 million in annual EBITDA from the project, with the majority of it beginning in 2027. Our El Dorado CCS injection project is a good example of how our industry can decarbonize and provide customers with low-carbon ammonia and derivative products in a cost-effective manner. We have made strong progress in the first nine months of 2025, driven by increased production volumes of ammonia, UAN, and AN, and expect to end the year in line with our total sales volume targets set out at the beginning of the year. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:09:20We've also continued to successfully shift our sales mix towards more contractual industrial sales, which allows us to pass through natural gas costs to our customers and provides us with greater earnings stability and visibility. At the same time, we've reduced our outstanding debt and continue to maintain a healthy cash balance while we evaluate several growth opportunities and continue to invest in the reliability and efficiency of our plants. I remain extremely optimistic about the future of our company, both for the remainder of the year and looking ahead to 2026. The market outlook remains robust, and we are well positioned to continue to improve our operational and financial performance while delivering sustainable growth and profitability. Before we open it up for questions, I'd like to mention that we will be participating in the NYSE Industrials virtual conference on November 18th and 19th. We look forward to speaking with some of you at this event. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:10:16That concludes our prepared remarks, and we will now be happy to take your questions. Thanks. Operator00:10:23Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press Star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press Star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Lucas Beaumont with UBS. Please proceed with your question. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:11:00Thank you. Good morning. I just wanted to sort of start on the ammonia market. It's been tight with the limited supply, and the ammonia contracts continue to kind of move higher. Sort of depending on what we assume there for December, it looks like pricing could be up $130 sequentially, if not more, into the fourth quarter. I guess just kind of what's your view on the market there generally to begin with? Then, assuming we see sort of a large kind of increase somewhere in that range, how should we think about that flowing through to your fourth quarter pricing? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:11:35Morning, Lucas. At a high level, it is a tight supply and demand market globally. On top of that, clearly we've got some issues going on in Trinidad that are affecting the market today and could have long term effects on the market. I think also while it's a little early, we feel like we're going to have a really healthy fall ammonia application season. I think everything's really setting up to have good demand, certainly in the United States and globally, a bit tighter supply. That's why you're seeing pricing move up. I'll let Damian give a little bit more color on the market itself. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:12:19Yeah, good morning, Lucas. You know, again, like Mark said, this is a story about lack of supply more than anything else. You've got issues in the Middle East with the Martin plant in Saudi Arabia having a very extended outage for a significant volume of tons. Other issues as well. You've got the news coming out of Trinidad with production coming out of the market for who knows how long, and the market is just reacting to that. How long does that continue for? It'll continue for as long as that supply is out of the market. The wildcard is when does the new capacity come online in the U.S. Gulf? You know, there's indications that some of that could be up later this year or early next year. You know, who knows? The proof will be in the pudding when that happens. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:13:25I think just to add on to that, while that has been well known that that production's coming online and we could have some more supply in the marketplace, the wild card now is Trinidad and what happens there. Could that offset all or just partial some of that new demand, new supply coming on? Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:13:45Yeah. Lucas, in terms of how that pulls through in the financial results, as you know, we are tied to Tampa ammonia, and you will see that pull through in our pricing for the fourth quarter. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:14:00Great, thanks. I guess just thinking about UAN as we kind of headed into the spring here. We've sort of been seeing some sort of softness in pricing there a bit as euros sort of come off and we're out at a kind of high period of seasonal demand so far. It seems like that's probably going to continue to soften here a bit through the fourth quarter. Last year we had pretty strong price increases and tight local supply demand conditions as we sort of got into the spring. I was just wondering if you guys could talk us through how you see the setup for 2026 now. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:14:41Look, Lucas, I think we're a little more optimistic on UAN. We're well sold forward. I think, -- are prices softening at the moment? I mean, yeah, sure, urea has softened a little bit, but I think that's set up for a recovery shortly as that market tightens as Chinese exports exit their short entry in the last few months. The UAN market, I think producers are pretty comfortable here in the U.S. We all came out of last season with very little inventory, and, you know, there's been turnarounds, et cetera, in the last few months. I think that tight supply is set up to continue, and we're confident that prices will be pretty healthy heading into Q1 and then into Q2 into the application season. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:15:43Tim, just wanted to ask one on the volume side. There's been a bit of noise this year. With the shift in the turnaround timing and kind of just the impact on sort of volume in the product mix between 3Q and 4Q, it seemed that was probably like flowing through to sort of costs in a few different ways as well. I was just wondering if you could kind of help us understand sort of the impacts that you saw there in the third quarter and how you see the setup for the fourth quarter on the sort of the volume and the cost side due to that. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:16:17Yeah. If we're thinking about the third quarter, we did have some mix changes flowing through with the transition of HDAN into AN solution for the industrial markets. We did see some higher costs related to that. I believe that's what you're alluding to. Part of that is, look, we're switching rail cars, and with that comes higher maintenance costs as we change out the fleet. We've got to restore the other cars to original state, which does lead to some higher maintenance costs. You do see that pull through in the third quarter. As we're thinking about the fourth quarter, I think we would expect to see our ammonium nitrate, nitric acid volumes kind of in line with the third quarter. Ammonia as well, and UAN, I would suspect, would be a bit higher in the fourth quarter as compared to the third quarter. Lucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS Group00:17:22Great, thank you. Operator00:17:26As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Wong with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Andrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital Markets00:17:39Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. With the stronger industrial demand, which appears to be continuing, how does that impact your negotiating position for contracts and margins you're able to secure? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:17:57That's a tough question, that one. Andrew, hi. Look, I think it's really going to depend on when those particular contracts expire and what's happening at the time. I mean, at any one time, we do have contracts rolling off, but they are typically smaller than some of our more substantial ones, which are under longer term durations. It would just come down to the specific situation. I think at the moment prices are healthy, and the broader happenings with Tampa ammonia and natural gas make the environment well set up to maintain or even increase prices if and when contracts expire. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:18:50I would just say that healthy overall nitrogen prices certainly help negotiating new contracts or renewal of new contracts when they come up for sale. Andrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital Markets00:19:04Okay, great, that's helpful. Just in terms of growth for LSB, given that stronger industrial backdrop, is that a path that we can expect to see LSB take in terms of spending on more upgrade capacity? If you were to take that path, do you maybe need to have some sort of backstop on longer term contracts to guarantee a certain return on those projects? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:19:31Yeah, Andrew, we're constantly looking at ways that we can increase our production capacity. We did a urea expansion up at our prior facility. There is a second urea expansion that is in the early stages of evaluation, and that might not necessarily just go to UAN. You know, we could enter the DEF market, which would be an industrial product. I think we're evaluating whether we want to do that or not. At El Dorado, we've talked in the past about an ammonia expansion there, and that ammonia expansion would probably add in the neighborhood of 100,000 tons. We are down a pathway to evaluate and really do our engineering studies to see if that really makes sense for us. Would we backstop that? I think at 100,000 tons, we're probably pretty comfortable. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:20:31If we did a big expansion, I think we would want to backstop it, as is a lot of our risk aversion for trying to lock in some returns for the investment of capital. I think we're not prepared yet to talk about the expansion. We'll wait until we get through our engineering studies, and if it makes sense and the board supports it, then we'll certainly announce it. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:00Okay, great. I appreciate that. Thank you. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:03Yeah. Operator00:21:06Our next question comes from the line of Laurence Alexander with Jefferies. Please proceed with your question. Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:21:12Good morning. Two, if I may. First, on the industrial market side of your business, can you just give a baseline for your seasonality going into next year with the current mix of contracts? How do you think about extending the amount of pre selling if there is any sort of fly up in ammonium nitrate prices? Secondly, with El Dorado, what's your current thoughts around changing your offtake structure or signing more offtake agreements as the project gets closer to completion? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:21:53Damien, I'll let you handle the first one. Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:21:54Okay. Seasonality, Laurence, most of the offtake through the year is fairly ratable. We do see some seasonality in our industrial business for explosives, and that's simply related to weather. We've got sales up into the northern parts of the U.S. and into Canada, and when it gets cold, it becomes more difficult for those miners to blast and so mitigate some of that demand. We're well set up to manage that with our current infrastructure and arrangements with our customers. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:22:38As far as the project at El Dorado, Lawrence, are you referring to the carbon capture and sequestration project, or are you referring to if we were to expand our ammonia production capacity? Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:22:51Sticking to the CCS injection project? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:22:56Yeah. The CCS project, we've already got a negotiated per ton of CO2 sequestered rate with our partner Lapis Energy. That's already locked in. As you know, we're generating the CO2 today. We're just venting it in the air. The project here is to capture it, dehydrate it, compress it, and then sequester it in a well that is actually already drilled on our property. The real gating item here is just the permit, the Class 6 permit from the EPA to allow us to, or to allow Lapis to, really sequester the CO2. Obviously, once we get that, we need to build a compression facility. There are lots of those around the world, and that's not complicated technology. Whether we sign additional AN solution contracts or nitric acid customer contracts for those products at a premium, the team is working on that and certainly engaged in conversations with customers. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:24:08The other thing that we could do, and we spent a fair amount of time looking at, is you could sell in the interim the environmental attribute. There's a value to that as well. I think we're looking at all avenues to monetize the low-carbon ammonia and the environmental attribute that is associated with that. Laurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at Jefferies00:24:33Thank you. Operator00:24:37A final reminder, if you would like to ask a question, press Star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from the line of Robert McGuire with Granite Research. Please proceed with your question. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:24:49Good morning. Could you please talk about UAN volumes? It looks like they're down from 150,000 to about 135,000 year over year. Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:25:00Yeah, Rob, we did have a bit of a miss on our UAN production in the third quarter. I would say we didn't quite meet our expectations. We would expect to be in line with our expectations in the fourth quarter. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:25:16Okay, great. Can you talk, what's your revenue mix of Ag vs Industrial now that your HDAN is being sold as ANS into the mining markets? Cheryl MaguireEVP and CFO at LSB Industries00:25:28Hard to look at it on a revenue basis, Rob, because revenue is really going to be driven by what the pricing looks like at any given time. I think it's probably better to look at it from a volume or a tons perspective. I think from the industrial side, we're probably 40% to 45%, with the balance being on the ag market side. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:25:49Thank you. You talked about the proposed anti-dumping duties on imported MDI. Can you give us a little more color around the dynamics around that topic? Damian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB Industries00:26:00Yeah. Hi, Rob. That evaluation is currently working its way through all the typical formal proceedings here in the U.S. I think there's a preliminary determination that's out there, and we're awaiting the formal determination. That will then officially put in place the anti-dumping duties on Chinese MDI. The effect of that is we're seeing domestic producers ramp up their MDI production as much as possible, and nitric acid is a raw material into that production chain, which is pretty complex. I won't try and explain it to you, but we're seeing some pull through there and certainly efforts to increase production where possible. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:26:55Wonderful. Just one last question. Can you give us an update on your value creation initiatives? Mark, you told us about what may be up and coming, but just what's left where you're at in terms of your progress? Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:27:10Oh boy, we have a lot left. I would say on our reliability and maintenance efforts, we've still got a fair amount of opportunity out there. Maybe we're somewhere between 25% and 50% complete with that. I really do believe we have a lot of opportunity to not only improve our reliability and therefore the production tons, but do it in a much more efficient manner, so lower cost. We're focused on both of those. When it comes to profit optimization, I think we outlined that there was probably $20 million or so that we expect to come from that, and we're somewhere again between 40% and 50% when it comes to that. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:28:10As far as some of the other initiatives that we have, the greatest thing about all of this is we're like kids in a candy store here. Every day, we're trying to solve for issues or improve the overall profitability of the company, and you sort of peel that onion back and then you find two other things that you can work on to really create value. I think it's a never ending process, to be honest. I do think that we'll give a lot more color, Rob, on our fourth quarter conference call, our year end conference call of exactly where we are and what we expect to achieve in 2026. Robert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite Research00:28:57Thank you. Operator00:29:01We have no further questions at this time. I'd like to turn the floor back over to you for closing comments. Mark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB Industries00:29:08Thank you everyone on. Thank you for their interest and great questions. As you can tell, we're really excited about the business and where the markets are today. Stay tuned. Thanks so much. Operator00:29:20Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation and have a wonderful day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesKristy CarverSVP and TreasurerCheryl MaguireEVP and CFOAnalystsRobert McGuireEquity Research Analyst at Granite ResearchLucas BeaumontDirector Equity Research Analyst at UBS GroupMark BehrmanChairman and CEO at LSB IndustriesDamian RenwickEVP and Chief Commercial Officer at LSB IndustriesAndrew WongEquity Research Analyst of Fertilizers and Uranium at RBC Capital MarketsLaurence AlexanderEquity Analyst at JefferiesPowered by