ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd

ICL in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
ICL Group makes minerals and chemicals through four businesses: industrial products such as bromine and its compounds, potash and related salts, phosphate-based specialty chemicals and fertilizers, and a growing-solutions unit selling crop nutrition and digital farming tools. It supplies pharmaceuticals, food, oil and gas, construction, battery and agriculture customers among others, mostly through distributors and marketing partners. The group is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo and trades in New York.
Where it sits in the stack
ICL sits outside our index, in the Basic Materials sector under agricultural inputs, closer to fertilizer and specialty-chemical producers than to any part of the AI build-out.
Who it is priced against
The diary holds no peer group for this name; the market most often names Mosaic as the comparable fertilizer and potash producer.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, though momentum is both the standout and the weak point in the current read, with no other module pulling it either way. It holds no seat in our index and has not yet appeared in an edition quote.
What the diary watches
Whether the shares recover toward their high or extend the current losing run, and whether that changes how the momentum module reads next.

ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL) trades on US exchanges, classified under Basic Materials.

The Closelook company score reads 39/100 composite (momentum 44, quality 30, valuation 43) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ICL, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Agricultural Inputs · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Agricultural Inputs

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against ICL on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.84%, quarterly · last 0.0580 USD on 2026-09-02

Dividends and capital return

What ICL pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.21 USD per share · a 3.84% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +64.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.13 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0580 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-02
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.17 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.16 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-12
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 224 m USD 66% of earnings
  • Share count +0.1% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 224 m USD · 172% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Materials in US: −1.9% week · −4.8% month · −3.2% quarter · −2.9% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLB.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL)?

ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd trades as ICL on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is ICL in a Closelook index?

Not currently — ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd's Closelook composite score?

39 out of 100, with momentum 44, quality 30 and valuation 43 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ICL trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.2% vs the 50-day and +0.2% vs the 200-day average, 21.7% below the 52-week high and +15.7% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 3 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd do?

ICL Group makes minerals and chemicals through four businesses: industrial products such as bromine and its compounds, potash and related salts, phosphate-based specialty chemicals and fertilizers, and a growing-solutions unit selling crop nutrition and digital farming tools. It supplies pharmaceuticals, food, oil and gas, construction, battery and agriculture customers among others, mostly through distributors and marketing partners. The group is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo and trades in New York. The diary holds no peer group for this name; the market most often names Mosaic as the comparable fertilizer and potash producer.

Where does ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

ICL sits outside our index, in the Basic Materials sector under agricultural inputs, closer to fertilizer and specialty-chemical producers than to any part of the AI build-out. It carries a Closelook score, though momentum is both the standout and the weak point in the current read, with no other module pulling it either way. It holds no seat in our index and has not yet appeared in an edition quote.

Does ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd pay a dividend?

ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd has paid 0.21 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.84% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0580 USD on 2026-09-02. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 224 m USD in dividends, 172% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 0.1% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ICL, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Agricultural Inputs, then Basic Materials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.