ALB
Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle CorporationALB

Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
99.25USD
+0.89%
Nov 08, 2026
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Vertically Integrated Lithium Producer Supplying Battery-Grade Chemicals
Albemarle is a vertically integrated lithium producer and converter with direct exposure to battery-grade lithium chemicals, alongside a separate bromine-specialties business.
Theme not measured
Lithium has no leadership state this session.
Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads damaged structure, with a near-term setup of base repair.
The tactical setup reads base repair, but the weekly structure is broken.
Attractive valuation
Current market expectations look undemanding relative to the cash the business actually produces.
Solid fundamentals
Free cash flow yield is strong.
Primary risk
Volatility in lithium pricing and demand.
Market Nov 6Filing Sep 30Price action Nov 7Research Aug 28

Conviction Level

Theme Momentum has no canonical measurement for this company — a research-profile dimension, not an input to this score.

PriceAction1.4BusinessPerformance5.0BusinessQuality4.6Valuation7.5ThemeMomentum—Mixed — Revenue is still growing (+19% YoY), but growth has slowed for 2 consecutive quarters, down from +33%. Earnings turned positive: diluted EPS of $2.15 against a loss of -$1.72 a year earlier. — From filed financial statements. Describes the recent trajectory of the business, not the stock. 20 of the 100 Conviction points.

Conviction uses Price Action, Business Performance, Business Quality, Valuation. Theme Momentum is research context, not an input.

Theme momentumPrimary theme · group context, not entry timing
Lithium — Lithium is tracked (3–4 priced members) — too few for a leadership state
Its economic family, Materials & Mining, reads Lagging (−14.1pp vs SPY) — the family’s reading, not this theme’s.
Price
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Price Action

Price trend is broken
Longer-term context reads damaged structure, with a near-term setup of base repair.
The tactical setup reads base repair, but the weekly structure is broken.
EntryDamaged / breakdown

The technical structure itself is broken across timeframes — the weakest entry profile.

Key Financials

Market Cap
$11.7B
Avg Volume (60D)
2.6M
60 sessions
Revenue Growth YoY
-4.4%
FY2025 vs FY2024
Gross Margin
+25.8%
Trailing twelve months
Operating Margin
+10.0%
Trailing twelve months
Free Cash Flow Yield
+12.3%
Distance from 200DMA
-32.6%
P/E
17.2x
EV / EBITDA
9.3x
EV / Sales
1.9x
Market metrics as of Nov 6, 2026
Financial results for the period ended Sep 30, 2026
Filed balance-sheet data as of Sep 30, 2026

Business Performance

Mixed

Revenue is still growing (+19% YoY), but growth has slowed for 2 consecutive quarters, down from +33%. Earnings turned positive: diluted EPS of $2.15 against a loss of -$1.72 a year earlier.

Latest reported: Q3 FY2026, ended Sep 30
Revenue growthSlowing
+19%
$1.55B in Q3 FY2026 · YoY
YoY growth, last 4 quarters
  1. +16%
  2. +33%
  3. +31%
  4. +19%
Earnings growthTurned profitable
$2.15
Diluted EPS $2.15 vs -$1.72 a year earlier · GAAP
Too few comparable EPS quarters: a loss or a turn to profit has no meaningful percentage.
Operating marginExpanding
9.5%
+26.1 pp YoY · gross margin 19.4% (+10.4 pp)

Business Quality

4.6 / 10

How well the business earns on its assets, converts earnings to cash and funds itself — read from its SEC filings.

Fundamentals & Valuation

All three valuation perspectives agree this company is cheap.
Albemarle Corporation has a Cheap valuation stance because current market expectations look undemanding relative to the cash the business actually produces.

Company Research

Thesis
Albemarle is a vertically integrated lithium producer and converter with direct exposure to battery-grade lithium chemicals, alongside a separate bromine-specialties business.
Opportunity
Moderate opportunity
Development, extraction and conversion of lithium supply outside concentrated foreign supply chains to serve battery-material demand and strategic industrial resilience.
Key risk
Volatility in lithium pricing and demand.

Economic classification

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Business & Markets

Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
What they do

Albemarle Corporation produces and supplies lithium compounds and specialty chemicals globally, operating through three segments: Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen. It is vertically integrated in lithium production and conversion, serving battery and industrial markets.

How it earns

The company generates revenue primarily through transactional sales of lithium chemicals and specialty chemical products to industrial customers.

Products & services
Lithium carbonate
Lithium hydroxide
Lithium chloride
Bromine chemicals
Specialty lithium solutions
Refining catalysts (majority stake sold)
Customers & end markets
Battery manufacturers for consumer electronics and electric vehicles
Energy and mobility industries
Industrial specialty chemical users
Market position

Leader in vertically integrated lithium production and specialty chemicals with exposure to battery materials.

Demand drivers
High cyclicality

Lithium pricing and production volumes are sensitive to cyclical demand in electric vehicles and energy storage sectors.