ALB

NYSE Albemarle Corporation
Oct 6, 2026 · 5:31 AM ET LAST TRADE Market Closed

$105.00 ↑ +0.63 (+0.60%) Trading Up from the previous close of $104.37

YTD change
-25.76%
vs 20-day SMA
-6.87%
vs 200-day SMA
-32.35%

Price ranges

Previous day
$103.59 $105.67
open $105.19 close $104.37
-$0.82 (-0.78%)
Today
$0.00 $0.00
$105.00
Past week
$102.37 $108.00
from $107.39 now $105.00
-$2.39 (-2.23%)
Past month
$102.37 $131.31
from $126.28 now $105.00
-$21.28 (-16.85%)
This year
$102.37 $221.00
from $141.44 now $105.00
-$36.44 (-25.76%)

Price & Performance

-68.66 (-39.68%) / 6M

$95.47$138.49$181.50$224.52Apr 6Jul 7Oct 5

Signals & Sentiment

Momentum, market sentiment, and recent alerts

Not So Good
  • The stock is 68.6% away from all-time highs of $334.55
  • ALB is down 26% since the beginning of the year
  • ALB is up 14% over the past 12 months
  • ALB is down 17% over the past 1 month
  • 9% of all ALB investors are betting against ALB
  • Number of investors short ALB has gone up 15% versus last month

ALB reads not so good: price sits below both the 20- and 200-day averages, short interest is rising month over month, the 12-month move is +13.4%.

Financial Strength

Earnings, valuation, and balance sheet

Earnings

Profitable Yes
EPS $3.75
Earnings momentum -45.5% Quarterly EPS growth
Quarterly change -45.5%

Valuation

P/E ratio 403.96
Enterprise value $17.1B
Beta 1.35

Balance sheet & scale

Income$224.2K
Revenue$5.9B
Cash$1.6B
Debt$2.0M
Income / Debt 0.11×

Company & Peers

Company profile and competitor comparison

Company profile

ExchangeNYSE
Sector Manufacturing
Sub Sector Chemical Manufacturing
Market cap $12.4B

Albemarle Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of chemicals for consumer electronics, petroleum refining, utilities, packaging, construction, transportation, pharmaceuticals, crop production, food-safety, and custom chemistry services. It operates through the following segments: Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen. The Energy Storage segment develops and manufactures a broad range of basic lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride. The Specialties segment focuses on optimizing a portfolio of bromine and specialized lithium solutions. The Ketjen segment consists of clean fuels technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions, which is primarily composed of organometallics and curatives. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Competitor comparison

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