Albemarle Corporation (ALB) Stock

About Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle Corporation is led by CEO Jerry Kent Jr., employs 7,800 people, headquartered in Charlotte, US, publicly traded since 1994.

Albemarle Corporation (ALB) stock trades at $93.67 with a market capitalization of $11.05B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 224.21, price-to-book of 1.24, price-to-sales of 2.15. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $81.97 and $221.00, and currently trades 57.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.52%.

On profitability, Albemarle Corporation generates a return on equity (ROE) of 2.26%, return on capital employed of 5.03%, an operating margin of 1.83%, a net profit margin of 3.79%.

Albemarle Corporation by the numbers, 2016–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 Albemarle Corporation reported revenue of $2.7B rising to $5.1B, a change of +92.1% across 10 years. Compounded, revenue has grown 10.4% a year over five years, -11.1% over three, -4.4% over the last twelve months. Net profit fell to $-511.0M.

Operating margin went from 19.0% in 2016 to 1.8% in 2025, a fall of 17.2 percentage points. The most recent net margin is 3.79%. On a trailing twelve-month basis to Jun '26, revenue is $5.9B and net profit $224.0M.

Borrowings rose from $2.4B to $3.3B, cash from operations was $1.3B in the latest year, positive in 10 of the last 10.

Return on equity has averaged 7.1% over five years, and was -5.4% in the most recent year.

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