Basic Materials
Lanxess AG(LNXSF)
Live Price
Offline$17.25
+0.00% today
1Y Change
-37.88%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
- Market Cap
- $1.57B
- Revenue Growth
- -10.9%
- EPS Growth
- -225.9%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.6%
Coverage: 249 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Lanxess AG (LNXSF) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $1.57B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $17.25 and down 37.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 23, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -10.9%, EPS growth of -225.9%, a dividend yield of 0.6%. What stands out right now is revenue -10.9%, EPS -225.9%, free cash flow -129.8% with operating margin -2.2% and ROIC -1.7%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.6%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at price/sales 0.3. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines LNXSF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-10.9% vs 0.0% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
-2.2% vs +10.5% peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 7, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -10.9% and EPS is at -225.9%, with operating margin around -2.2%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 0.6%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged -4.7% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 0 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 7, 2026 | โ | +0.0% | +0.0% | +0.0% |
2026 Mar 19, 2026 | +155.4% | -5.2% | -5.2% | +46.7% |
2025 Nov 6, 2025 | -2852.3% | +0.0% | -8.8% | -14.2% |
Benchmark Edge
LNXSF vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
LNXSF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
LNXSF Max Drawdown
-55.41%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for LNXSF and SPY.
Company Overview
Lanxess AG
Other OTC
LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft, a specialty chemicals company, develops, manufactures, and markets chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals, and plastics worldwide. It operates through four segments: Advanced Intermediates, Specialty Additives, Consumer Protection, and Engineering Materials. The Advanced Intermediates segment provides advanced industrial intermediates, basic and fine chemicals, organometallics, and inorganic pigments for the agrochemical, automotive, construction, aromas and flavors, semiconductors and photovoltaic, and color pigments industries. The Specialty Additives segment offers additives, including lubricants, flame retardants, plasticizers, and bromine derivatives for various applications of rubber, plastic, paint, construction, and electrical industries. The Consumer Protection segment provides material protection products; disinfectant, hygiene, and preservative solutions; flavors and fragrances; and precursors and intermediates for the agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals industries, as well as technologies for the treatment of water and other liquids. The Engineering Materials segment produces technical plastics, glass fibers, fiber composites, and elastomers on a urethane basis for application in the automotive and electrical/electronics, construction, and medicine industries, as well as sports and leisure sectors. The company was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.
- Leadership
- Matthias Zachert
- IPO Date
- Jan 17, 2012
- Employees
- 12.3k
- Street Address
- Kennedyplatz 1
- Mailing
- Cologne, 50569
- Region
- Cologne, DE
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 49 221 8885 0
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- โ
- EV/EBITDA
- 6.0
- Price/Sales
- 0.3
- Price/Book
- 0.4
Growth
- Revenue
- -10.9%
- EPS
- -225.9%
- Free Cash Flow
- -129.8%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 19.9%
- Operating Margin
- -2.2%
- Net Margin
- -10.2%
- ROE
- -14.7%
- ROIC
- -1.7%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.72
- Current Ratio
- 1.67
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
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