NL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (NL Industries | NYSE:NL)

NL Industries Inc is a holding company that operates in the component products industry. Through its subsidiary, it manufactures engineered components that are sold to a range of industries, including recreational transportation, postal, office and institutional furniture, cabinetry, tool storage, healthcare, gas stations and vending equipment. It also produces a precision ball bearing slide, security products, and ergonomic computer support systems. The company derives majority of its revenue from Europe.

NL Industries trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NL.

As of December 24, 2025, NL stock price climbed to $5.70 with 10,202 million shares trading.

NL has a beta of 0.76, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NL has a correlation of 0.13 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NL has a market cap of $278.43 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, NL traded as high as $9.42 and as low as $4.46.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NL belongs to (by Net Assets): BSVO, VTI, IWM, VXF, DFAT.

NL has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -21.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.3%. In the last 3 month period, NL fell short of the market, returning -4.6%, while SPY returned +4.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks NL has outperformed the stock market by returning +6.1%, while SPY returned +1.4%.

NL support price is $5.39 and resistance is $5.81 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.