Witnessing the stock’s movement on the chart, on Thursday, Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) had a quiet start as it plunged -1.47% to $101.10, before settling in for the price of $102.61 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, ALB posted a 52-week range of $71.97-$153.54.
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The Basic Materials Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 30.25%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 16.09%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -107.06%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $117.54 million, simultaneously with a float of $117.05 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $11.88 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $100.81, while the 200-day Moving Average is $105.81.
Albemarle Corp (ALB) Ownership Facts and Figures
Nothing is more important than checking the behaviour of major investors towards the stock of the Specialty Chemicals industry. Albemarle Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.42%, in contrast to 92.17% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 19 ’24, Company’s Chief Operations Officer sold 1,060 for 106.04, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 112,403. This particular insider is now the holder of 30,360 in total.
Albemarle Corp (ALB) Earnings and Revenue Records
Albemarle Corp’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -107.06% and is forecasted to reach 0.91 in the upcoming year.
Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Albemarle Corp (ALB). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.58. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 4.45. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 1.83.
In the same vein, ALB’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -16.75, a figure that is expected to reach -0.64 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 0.91 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Albemarle Corp (ALB)
Going through the that latest performance of [Albemarle Corp, ALB]. Its last 5-days volume of 1.81 million was inferior to the volume of 2.91 million it revealed a year ago. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 26.71% While, its Average True Range was 4.34.
Raw Stochastic average of Albemarle Corp (ALB) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 73.32%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 12.54% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 38.58% that was lower than 57.66% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
