Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) on Monday, plunged -8.91% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $105.64. Within the past 52 weeks, ALB’s price has moved between $49.43 and $113.91.
The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 38.28%. With a float of $116.84 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $117.67 million.
Albemarle Corp (ALB) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Specialty Chemicals industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Albemarle Corp is 0.89%, while institutional ownership is 97.43%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 09 ’25, was worth 11,020. In this transaction General Counsel & Sec of this company sold 116 shares at a rate of $95.00, taking the stock ownership to the 11,655 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 05 ’24, when Company’s Chairman & CEO sold 2,525 for $101.12, making the entire transaction worth $255,328. This insider now owns 73,747 shares in total.
Albemarle Corp (ALB) Latest Financial update
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported -1.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the period falling under the consensus outlook (set at -0.48) by -1.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of -0.73 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 38.28% per share during the next fiscal year.
Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) Trading Performance Indicators
Albemarle Corp (ALB) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 1.47 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.27.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -9.33, a number that is poised to hit -0.85 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.56 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Albemarle Corp (ALB)
Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) saw its 5-day average volume 3.43 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 3.58 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 71.33%.
During the past 100 days, Albemarle Corp’s (ALB) raw stochastic average was set at 78.99%, which indicates a significant increase from 41.06% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 5.29 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 3.73 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $85.75, while its 200-day Moving Average is $74.11. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $102.57 in the near term. At $108.91, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $112.35. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $92.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $89.35. The third support level lies at $83.01 if the price breaches the second support level.
Albemarle Corp (NYSE: ALB) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 11.32 billion based on 117,683K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 5,378 M and income totals -1,179 M. The company made 1,330 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 22,900 K in sales during its previous quarter.
