secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NL INDUSTRIES INC (NL)
CIK:        0000072162
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-11-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000072162-24-000037
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

NL Industries reports Q3 net income of $36M ($0.74 EPS) vs year-ago loss of $0.1M
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- Net income attributable to NL stockholders $36.0M ($0.74/share) vs net loss $0.1M (nil per share) in Q3 2023.
- Results include $18.6M unrealized gain on marketable equity securities; equity in earnings of Kronos was $21.9M (vs loss $6.2M).
- CompX net sales fell to $33.6M from $40.3M; operating income dropped to $3.3M from $6.6M due to lower Security Products sales.
- Kronos net sales up 22% to $484.7M; income from operations of $38.9M vs loss of $25.3M; includes $64.5M non-cash gain from LPC acquisition.
- Nine-month net income $50.7M ($1.04/share) vs loss $9.9M ($0.20 loss/share) in prior year.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000037/0000072162-24-000037-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216224000037/nl-20241106x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-24-000037

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