secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NL INDUSTRIES INC (NL)
CIK:        0000072162
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-03-09T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000059255-22-000012
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

NL Industries Q4 net income $14.9M ($0.31/sh) up from $4.3M; CompX and Kronos results improve
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- Net income attributable to NL stockholders $14.9M ($0.31 per share) in Q4 2021 vs $4.3M ($0.09) in Q4 2020; full year $51.2M ($1.05) vs $14.7M ($0.30).
- CompX net sales $34.1M in Q4 (+14% YoY), income from operations $3.8M vs $2.3M; full year sales $140.8M, ops income $20.5M.
- Equity in earnings of Kronos $9.6M in Q4 vs $3.1M; Kronos net sales $496M (+20% YoY), income from operations $52.0M vs $20.4M.
- Unrealized gain on marketable equity securities (Valhi stock) $6.5M in Q4 ($16.2M FY) vs $2.4M gain ($8.7M loss FY) in 2020.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000005925522000012/0000059255-22-000012-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000005925522000012/nl8k220309.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000059255-22-000012

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