LyondellBasell Industries (LYB) Stock Forecast & Price Target $69.66 -0.06 (-0.09%) Closing price 05/22/2026 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$69.74 +0.09 (+0.12%) As of 05/22/2026 07:34 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. Add Compare Share Share Analyst Forecasts Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsDividendEarningsFinancialsHeadlinesInsider TradesOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort InterestTrendsBuy This Stock LyondellBasell Industries - Analysts' Recommendations and Stock Price Forecast (2026) How MarketBeat Calculates Price Target and Consensus Rating Consensus Rating HoldBased on 22 Analyst RatingsSell3Hold10Buy9 Based on 22 Wall Street analysts who have issued ratings for LyondellBasell Industries in the last 12 months, the stock has a consensus rating of "Hold." Out of the 22 analysts, 3 have given a sell rating, 10 have given a hold rating, 7 have given a buy rating, and 2 have given a strong buy rating for LYB. Consensus Price Target $76.7610.20% Upside According to the 22 analysts' twelve-month price targets for LyondellBasell Industries, the average price target is $76.76. The highest price target for LYB is $94.00, while the lowest price target for LYB is $55.00. The average price target represents a forecasted upside of 10.20% from the current price of $69.66. MarketBeat calculates consensus analyst ratings for stocks using the most recent rating from each Wall Street analyst that has rated a stock within the last twelve months. Each analyst's rating is normalized to a standardized rating score of 1 (sell), 2 (hold), 3 (buy) or 4 (strong buy). Analyst consensus ratings scores are calculated using the mean average of the number of normalized sell, hold, buy and strong buy ratings from Wall Street analysts. 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LYB Analyst Ratings Over TimeTypeCurrent Forecast5/25/25 to 5/25/261 Month Ago4/25/25 to 4/25/263 Months Ago2/24/25 to 2/24/261 Year Ago5/25/24 to 5/25/25Strong Buy2 Strong Buy rating(s)1 Strong Buy rating(s)0 Strong Buy rating(s)1 Strong Buy rating(s)Buy7 Buy rating(s)7 Buy rating(s)1 Buy rating(s)2 Buy rating(s)Hold10 Hold rating(s)12 Hold rating(s)17 Hold rating(s)9 Hold rating(s)Sell3 Sell rating(s)4 Sell rating(s)5 Sell rating(s)2 Sell rating(s)Consensus Price Target$76.76$72.05$51.12$69.75Forecasted Upside10.20% Upside3.20% Upside-12.43% Downside24.26% UpsideConsensus RatingHoldHoldReduceHold LYB Analyst Recommendations By MonthAnalyst Ratings Chart DescriptionThe chart below shows how a company's ratings by analysts have changed over time. Each bar represents the previous year of ratings for that month. Within each bar, the sell ratings are shown in red, the hold ratings are shown in yellow, the buy ratings are shown in green, and the strong buy ratings are shown in dark green.Skip Chart & View Analyst Rating History LYB Price Targets by MonthAverage Share Price and Price Target by Month Chart DescriptionThe chart below shows how a company's share price and consensus price target have changed over time. The dark blue line represents the company's actual price. The lighter blue line represents the stock's consensus price target. The even lighter blue range in the background of the two lines represents the low price target and the high price target for each stock.Skip Chart and View Analyst Price Target HistorySkip Chart & View Price History Table LyondellBasell Industries Stock vs. The CompetitionTypeLyondellBasell IndustriesBasic Materials CompaniesBroader MarketConsensus Rating Score 2.36 2.57 2.52Consensus RatingHoldModerate BuyModerate BuyPredicted Upside10.20% Upside180.04% Upside15.09% UpsideNews Sentiment RatingPositive NewsSee Recent LYB NewsPositive NewsPositive News Recent Analyst Forecasts and Stock Ratings All Ratings Strong Buy Buy Hold Sell Rating Show All Upside > 100% Upside 50% - 100% Upside 20% - 50% Upside 10% - 20% Upside 0% - 10% Downside 0% - 10% Downside 10% - 20% Downside 20% - 50% Downside 50% - 100% Downside > 100% Upside/Downside All Actions Upgrades Downgrades Initiates Coverage Raises Target Lowers Target Reiterates Rating Action Custom Range 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months Year-to-Date 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years Time Frame Start Date End Date Most Recent from Each Brokerage All Show Export DateBrokerageAnalystActionRatingPrice TargetReport Date Upside/DownsideDetails5/19/2026 Weiss RatingsNot Rated UpgradeSell (D+) ➝ Hold (C-)5/14/2026 Evercore3 of 5 stars Boost Target$70.00 ➝ $73.00-0.99%5/5/2026 BMO Capital Markets4 of 5 stars Boost TargetMarket Perform$82.00 ➝ $88.00+14.37%5/5/2026 Wells Fargo & CompanySubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingMichael SisonSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingLower TargetEqual Weight$87.00 ➝ $80.00+4.34%5/5/2026 Deutsche Bank AktiengesellschaftSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingDavid BegleiterSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetHold$75.00 ➝ $80.00+4.34%5/5/2026 UBS GroupSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingJoshua SpectorSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetNeutral$79.00 ➝ $82.00+6.94%5/4/2026 The Goldman Sachs GroupSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating Boost TargetSell$51.00 ➝ $75.00-2.53%5/4/2026 JPMorgan Chase & Co.Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingJeffrey ZekauskasSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetNeutral$50.00 ➝ $75.00+0.81%5/4/2026 Royal Bank Of CanadaSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingArun ViswanathanSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetOutperform$91.00 ➝ $94.00+26.35%5/1/2026 Zacks ResearchSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating UpgradeHold ➝ Strong-BuyGoldman Sachs just told you what to buy (most people missed it) (Ad)Goldman Sachs just revealed that 40% of AI data centers will be crippled by electricity shortages by 2027 - not chips, not funding, but power. Demand is growing 15% per year and the grid can't keep up. One small company makes the exact equipment these data centers need. They're sitting on $1.5 billion in orders, their hardware is already inside Musk's Colossus, and the stock still trades like a name nobody's heard of. Analyst Dylan Jovine is releasing the ticker for free.See the stock positioned to solve AI's biggest power crisis5/1/2026 MizuhoSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingJohn RobertsSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost Target$74.00 ➝ $76.00+1.39%4/21/2026 Morgan StanleySubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingVincent AndrewsSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetOverweight$52.00 ➝ $77.00+11.47%4/16/2026 Jefferies Financial GroupSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating Boost TargetHold$70.00 ➝ $75.00+1.09%4/14/2026 Wolfe ResearchSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating Boost TargetUnderperform$38.00 ➝ $62.00-15.33%4/9/2026 Alembic Global AdvisorsSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating UpgradeNeutral ➝ Overweight4/8/2026 CitigroupSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingPatrick CunninghamSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingBoost TargetBuy$76.00 ➝ $90.00+29.49%4/6/2026 Bank of AmericaSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating Reiterated RatingNeutral ➝ Underperform$55.00-30.94%3/9/2026 Fermium ResearcSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating UpgradeHold ➝ Strong-Buy3/9/2026 Vertical ResearchSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating UpgradeHold ➝ Buy$75.00+11.50%3/4/2026 KeyCorpSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingAleksey YefremovSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingUpgradeSector Weight ➝ Overweight$73.00+25.43%9/12/2025 Rothschild & Co RedburnSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating Lower TargetBuy$80.00 ➝ $75.00+36.28%5/30/2025 ArgusSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingJohn EadeSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingDowngradeBuy ➝ Hold5/1/2025 BarclaysSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingMichael LeitheadSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingLower TargetEqual Weight$72.00 ➝ $62.00+5.59%5/1/2025 Piper SandlerSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy ratingC. NeivertSubscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the analyst's recommendation accuracy ratingLower TargetNeutral$67.00 ➝ $66.00+13.01%Analyst ratings data on MarketBeat is provided by Benzinga and other data providers. This page was last refreshed on Tuesday at 12:00 AM ET. Should I Buy LyondellBasell Industries Stock? LYB Pros and Cons Explained These pros and cons were generated based on recent news and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest and most accurate insights. They were last updated on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. Please send any questions or comments about these LyondellBasell Industries pros and cons to contact@marketbeat.com. LyondellBasell Industries Bull Case Here are some ways that investors could benefit from investing in LyondellBasell Industries: The current stock price is around $76.76, which reflects a stable valuation in the market, making it an attractive entry point for potential investors. Recent analyst upgrades, including a price target increase from UBS Group to $82.00, indicate positive sentiment and potential for stock appreciation. The company has demonstrated resilience with improved pricing despite facing volume pressures, suggesting strong demand for its products in key markets. LyondellBasell Industries has a diverse portfolio supplying raw materials across various sectors, including packaging and automotive, which can mitigate risks associated with market fluctuations. With a focus on sustainability and advanced polymers, the company is well-positioned to capitalize on growing trends in environmentally friendly products. LyondellBasell Industries Bear Case Investors should be bearish about investing in LyondellBasell Industries for these reasons: Profitability metrics are mixed, with a reported negative net margin, indicating that non-operating items and restructuring costs may be impacting overall financial health. Analyst commentary is mixed, with some concerns about higher feedstock costs and uneven segment performance, which could affect future earnings stability. Despite recent price target increases, some analysts maintain a "sell" rating, suggesting caution among market experts regarding the stock's potential. Volume pressures have been noted, which could hinder growth prospects and affect the company's ability to meet market demand effectively. The overall economic environment and fluctuations in raw material prices could pose risks to LyondellBasell Industries' profitability and operational efficiency. LYB Forecast - Frequently Asked Questions What is LyondellBasell Industries' forecast for 2026? According to the research reports of 22 Wall Street equities research analysts, the average twelve-month stock price forecast for LyondellBasell Industries is $76.76, with a high forecast of $94.00 and a low forecast of $55.00. Should I buy or sell LyondellBasell Industries stock right now? 22 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for LyondellBasell Industries in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings, 7 buy ratings and 2 strong buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" LYB shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LYB, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares. Does LyondellBasell Industries's stock price have much upside? According to analysts, LyondellBasell Industries's stock has a predicted upside of 10.20% based on their 12-month stock forecasts. Has LyondellBasell Industries been upgraded by Wall Street analysts recently? Over the previous 90 days, LyondellBasell Industries's stock had 10 upgrades by analysts. What analysts cover LyondellBasell Industries? LyondellBasell Industries has been rated by research analysts at Alembic Global Advisors, Bank of America, BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Evercore, Fermium Researc, Jefferies Financial Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co., KeyCorp, Mizuho, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank Of Canada, The Goldman Sachs Group, UBS Group, Vertical Research, Weiss Ratings, Wells Fargo & Company, Wolfe Research, and Zacks Research in the past 90 days. Do Wall Street analysts like LyondellBasell Industries more than its competitors? Analysts like LyondellBasell Industries less than other "basic materials" companies. The consensus rating for LyondellBasell Industries is Hold while the average consensus rating for "basic materials" companies is Moderate Buy. Learn more on how LYB compares to other companies. 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