LSB Industries, Inc. Reports Operating Results for the 2025 Fourth Quarter and Full Year and Provides Product Sales Volume Outlook for 2026

LSB Industries, Inc. (NYSE: LXU) (“LSB,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Company”) today announced results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.

Fourth Quarter 2025 Results and Recent Highlights

• Net sales of $165.0 million compared to $134.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2024
• Net income of $16.1 million compared to a net loss of $9.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2024
• Diluted EPS of $0.22 compared to $(0.13) for the fourth quarter of 2024
• Adjusted EBITDA ⁽¹⁾ of $54.1 million compared to $37.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2024
• Repurchased $7.5 million in principal amount of Senior Secured Notes for approximately $7.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2025; repurchased approximately 0.3 million shares of common stock for approximately $2.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2025

Full Year 2025 Results and Highlights

• Net sales of $615.2 million compared to $522.4 million in the full year 2024
• Net income of $24.6 million compared to net loss of $19.4 million in the full year 2024
• Diluted EPS of $0.34 compared to $(0.27) for the full year 2024
• Adjusted EBITDA ⁽¹⁾ of $161.5 million compared to $129.5 million in the full year 2024
• Total cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments of approximately $148.5 million and total debt of $441.0 million as of December 31, 2025
• Repurchased $39.9 million in principal amount of Senior Secured Notes for approximately $39.5 million in 2025; repurchased approximately 0.3 million shares of common stock for approximately $2.8 million in 2025
• Total Recordable Injury Rate of 0.40 (“TRIR”) for the full year 2025 ⁽²⁾

“I am proud of the progress that the team made across our business in 2025. We continued to improve our overall safety performance by achieving a 12-month rolling total reportable incident rate (TRIR) of 0.40 incidents per 200,000 work hours as of December 31, 2025, a record low. We also saw three of our four sites operate injury free for the full year. We delivered significant year-over-year growth in net sales, adjusted EBITDA and EPS in both the fourth quarter and full-year 2025,” stated Mark Behrman, LSB Industries' Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. “Our focused efforts to improve our production performance, combined with disciplined commercial execution, supported our strong financial results and reinforced our ability to convert market conditions into enhanced profitability. The operational progress we achieved during the year enabled us to fully capitalize on favorable pricing momentum across our key products.”

“As we look at the year ahead, we expect to build on the strong operational execution that delivered record nitric acid and ammonium nitrate solution production in 2025. These records reflect the progress we’ve made in plant reliability, throughput, and operational efficiency, which are being driven by operational discipline, process enhancements, and consistent execution, as well as the investment of capital. We are excited about the year ahead and our expectations for generating increased value for shareholders. I am confident in our team’s ability to deliver on our goals for the year.”

Market Outlook

• Industrial business remains consistent:
  • Demand for Ammonium Nitrate (AN) for explosives in mining is strong across all commodities, particularly with copper and gold miners as they maximize production to take advantage of record prices
  • AN demand for explosives for quarrying/aggregate production for infrastructure upgrade and expansion remains steady
  • Demand for coal production increased slightly as the U.S. sought to generate more power from coal, supporting demand for AN
  • Robust demand for domestic nitric acid, supported by tariffs and preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI)

• Agricultural markets are healthy and pricing remains strong:
  • Ammonia prices currently reflect:
    • reduced ammonia supply from the Middle East and Trinidad
    • higher costs of production in Europe and
    • delays in new production capacity, which are constraining global supply availability
  • Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) prices recently improved, reflecting:
    • continued low levels of domestic inventory
    • constrained supply and a strengthening in Urea prices

• Corn market dynamics support fertilizer demand:
  • Although 2025’s record crop exceeded the previous 2023 high, demand is keeping stocks-to-use only modestly above historical levels
  • The USDA recently projected 94 million planted acres for corn for the 2027 season and we anticipate nitrogen demand to track closely with recent years

Low Carbon Ammonia Projects Summary

• El Dorado Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Project with Lapis Carbon Solutions
  • Expect to capture and sequester between 400,000 and 500,000 metric tons of CO ₂ per year, which would reduce our Scope 1 emissions by approximately 25%, yielding between 305,000 and 380,000 metric tons per year of low carbon ammonia
  • Completed stratigraphic well in June to provide data to support EPA in review of Class VI application
  • Lapis Carbon Solutions resubmitted the pre-construction Class VI permit application to the EPA in December 2025. Once the project receives EPA approval, which is expected in Q4 2026, we intend to use the completed stratigraphic well for CO ₂ injections
  • Expect to begin operations by the end of 2026

Fourth Quarter Results Overview

Comparison of Fourth Quarter of 2025 to 2024:

• Higher selling prices combined with increased volumes resulted in higher net sales for the period. Sales volumes were higher as a result of higher operating rates combined with no planned turnaround activity in 2025 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2024.

The following tables provide key sales metrics for our products:

Volume Outlook ⁽¹⁾

Estimated ammonia production and product sales volumes for the full year 2026 are as follows:

Conference Call

LSB’s management will host a conference call on Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:00 am ET / 9:00 am CT to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2025 results and recent corporate developments. Participating in the call will be Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Mark Behrman, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Cheryl Maguire and Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, Damien Renwick. Interested parties may participate in the call by dialing (877) 407-6176 / (201) 689-8451. Please call in 10 minutes before the conference is scheduled to begin and ask for the LSB conference call.

A webcast of the call, along with a slide presentation that coincides with management’s prepared remarks, will be available in the Investors section of LSB’s website, at www.lsbindustries.com . The webcast can be found under Events & Presentations. If you are unable to listen to the live call, the conference call webcast will be archived on LSB’s website.

LSB Industries, Inc.

LSB Industries, Inc., headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is committed to playing a leadership role in the production of low and no carbon products that build, feed and power the world. The LSB team is dedicated to building a culture of excellence in customer experiences as we currently deliver essential products across the agricultural and industrial end markets and, in the future, the energy markets. The company manufactures ammonia and ammonia-related products at facilities in Cherokee, Alabama, El Dorado, Arkansas and Pryor, Oklahoma and operates a facility for a global chemical company in Baytown, Texas. Additional information about LSB can be found on our website at www.lsbindustries.com .

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this release that are not historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: our business strategy; anticipated future operating results and operating expenses, cash flows, capital resources and liquidity; trends, opportunities and risks affecting our business, industry and financial results; our ability to successfully leverage our existing business platform and portfolio of assets to produce low carbon products; the impact of trade policy on our business; the availability of raw materials; production volumes at our production facilities; and the anticipated cost and timing of our capital projects, including turnarounds. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “will,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “should,” “would,” and similar words or phrases, as well as by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or actual achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or anticipated achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Significant risks and uncertainties relate to, but are not limited to, business and market disruptions; market conditions and price volatility for our products and feedstocks; global and regional economic downturns that adversely affect the demand for our end-use products; disruptions in production at our manufacturing facilities; increased competitive pressures; our ability to fund the working capital and expansion of our businesses; recruiting and retaining skilled and qualified personnel; our ability to obtain necessary raw materials and purchased components; material increases in cost of raw materials; obtaining and maintaining necessary permits; and other financial, economic, competitive, environmental, political, legal and regulatory factors, including tariffs. These and other risk factors are discussed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for our management to predict all risks and uncertainties, nor can management assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance or achievements. Neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Unless otherwise required by applicable laws, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information or future developments.

Non-GAAP Reconciliations

To supplement our financial information presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), we present certain non-GAAP financial measures in this press release and on the related teleconference call.

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation

Management uses EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA as supplemental measures to review and assess the performance of our core business operations and for planning purposes. EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) plus interest expense and interest income, net, less gain on extinguishment of debt, plus depreciation and amortization (D&A) (which includes D&A of property, plant and equipment and amortization of intangible and other assets), plus provision (benefit) for income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA is reported to show the impact of non-cash stock-based compensation, one time/non-cash or non-operating items-such as, one-time income or fees, loss (gain) on sale of a business and/or other property and equipment, certain fair market value (FMV) adjustments, and consulting costs associated with reliability and purchasing initiatives (Initiatives). We historically have performed turnaround activities on an annual basis; however, we have moved towards extending turnarounds to a two or three-year cycle. Rather than being capitalized and amortized over the period of benefit, our accounting policy is to recognize the costs as incurred. Given these turnarounds are essentially investments that provide benefits over multiple years, they are not reflective of our operating performance in a given year.

We believe that certain investors consider EBITDA a useful means of measuring our ability to meet our debt service obligations and evaluating our financial performance. In addition, we believe that certain investors consider adjusted EBITDA as more meaningful to further assess our performance. We believe that the inclusion of supplementary adjustments to EBITDA is appropriate to provide additional information to investors about certain items.

EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA have limitations and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income, operating income, cash flow from operations or other consolidated income or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to a similarly titled measure of other companies. The following table provides a reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA for the periods indicated.

Ammonia, AN, Nitric Acid, UAN Sales Price Reconciliation

The following table provides a reconciliation of total identified net sales as reported under GAAP in our consolidated financial statements reconciled to netback sales which is calculated as net sales less freight and other non-netback costs. We believe this provides a relevant industry comparison among our peer group.

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Company Contact:
Cheryl Maguire, Executive Vice President & CFO
(405) 510-3524
Investors@lsbindustries.com

David Kimmel, Director of Communications
(405) 815-4645
dkimmel@lsbindustries.com