secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     NL INDUSTRIES INC (NL)
CIK:        0000072162
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000072162-25-000016
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

NL Q1 net income falls to $0.7M from $6.8M, hurt by $8.5M unrealized loss
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- Net income of $0.7M ($0.01 per share), down from $6.8M ($0.14) YoY.
- CompX sales rose to $40.3M (+6%) and segment profit to $5.9M from $3.7M.
- Kronos net sales $489.8M (+2%), income from operations $38.4M (vs $19.5M).
- NL equity in Kronos earnings increased to $5.5M from $2.5M.
- Corporate expenses rose $0.3M on higher remediation and G&A costs.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216225000016/0000072162-25-000016-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72162/000007216225000016/nl-20250507x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072162-25-000016

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