Olin (OLIN) Climbs 11% on Strong Sales

We recently published 10 Stocks With Monster Gains. Olin Corp. (NYSE:OLN) was one of the top performers on Wednesday.

Olin rallied for a third day on Wednesday, adding 10.95 percent to close at $25.44 apiece as investors continued to digest a strong sales performance last year.

During the period, sales inched up by 3.7 percent to $6.78 billion from $6.54 billion in 2024.

However, Olin Corp. (NYSE:OLN) swung to an attributable net loss of $42.8 million in full-year 2025 from a $108.6 million attributable net income in 2024.

In the fourth quarter alone, sales finished flat at $1.6 billion, while attributable net loss stood at $85.7 million, reversing an attributable net income of $10.7 million in the same period a year earlier.

“During the fourth quarter, we experienced continued headwinds related to the trough market environment exacerbated by customer destocking as well as planned maintenance turnarounds and unplanned operating events. Despite that, we remain committed to executing our value-first commercial approach and are focused on our Optimize the Core strategic priorities: operating safely and reliably, delivering our Beyond250 structural cost reductions and maximizing cash generation,” said Olin Corp. (NYSE:OLN) President and CEO Ken Lane.

Olin Corp. (NYSE:OLN) remained cautious about its outlook for its business in the first quarter of the year.

“As a result of upcoming sequentially higher planned maintenance turnaround costs and higher raw material costs, including increased electrical power costs, we expect first quarter 2026 results from our Chemicals businesses to be lower than fourth quarter 2025. In our Winchester business, as commercial customer inventories become more normalized, we expect our first quarter 2026 results to modestly increase from the fourth quarter 2025. Overall, we expect Olin’s first quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA to be lower than fourth quarter 2025 levels,” Lane said.

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