Albemarle Corporation (ALB) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Albemarle Corporation (ALB): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Albemarle Corporation
Albemarle Corporation provides energy storage solutions worldwide. It operates through three segments: Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen. The Energy Storage segment offers lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride for use in lithium batteries used in consumer electronics and electric vehicles; power grids and solar panels; high-performance greases; and specialty glass used in consumer appliances and electronics. The Specialties segment provides bromine and highly specialized lithium solutions for various industries, such as energy, mobility, connectivity, and health comprising fire safety compounds; bromine-based specialty chemical products, including elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and various bromine fine chemicals; lithium specialties, such as butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride; cesium products for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries; and zirconium, barium, and titanium products for pyrotechnical applications, including airbag initiators.
Sector: Basic Materials · Industry: Specialty Chemicals · United States · 7,800 employees · albemarle.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Albemarle Corporation (ALB) had a market capitalization of $14.90B, a trailing P/E of 505.1 (forward 11.2), a dividend yield of 1.24% and a beta of 1.33; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $71.25 – $221.00 (61.2% over the year).
- Market cap
- $14.90B
- Enterprise value
- $17.76B
- Trailing P/E
- 505.1
- Forward P/E
- 11.2
- PEG ratio
- 0.79
- Price / book
- 1.85
- EPS (trailing)
- $0.25
- EPS (forward)
- $11.30
- Dividend yield
- 1.24%
- Payout ratio
- 600.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-09-11
- 52-week range
- $71.25 – $221.00
- 52-week change
- 61.2%
- Beta
- 1.33
- Average volume
- 2.3M
- Shares outstanding
- 118.0M
- Short % of float
- 0.07%
- Profit margin
- 3.8%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-09
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-09 scan of the US universe, Albemarle Corporation (ALB) last closed at $129.57 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 47 (neutral territory), price -3.4% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +4.8%, MACD histogram -0.86.
Sentiment inputs: 71% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 100% bullish; analyst consensus score 68/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 22 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for ALB in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
ALB has been a daily pick 1 time; 0 of 1 graded picks beat SPY over the following five trading days. Most recent: 2026-07-22, rank #2, -0.64% versus SPY (lagged). Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Albemarle Corporation (ALB) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell ALB.
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