Albemarle Corporation vs Solstice Advanced Materials Inc., two Chemicals stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Solstice Advanced Materials, freshly spun off into specialty materials, earns a 22.61% return on equity and an 8.93% net margin, and the market pays up for it at 8.87 times book. Albemarle mines lithium and is loss-making this cycle, net margin -4.24%, so there is no earnings figure to anchor and it trades at just 1.57 times book. Leverage separates them too: Solstice carries a heavier 1.33 debt-to-equity, Albemarle a light 0.19. Free-cash yields sit close, 2.59% for Solstice and 3.63% for Albemarle. Solstice is priced as a high-return specialty debut, Albemarle as a commodity producer at the bottom of its price cycle.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | ALB | SOLS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $126.04 | $61.31 |
| Market cap | $14.9B | $9.8B |
| Sector | Chemicals | Chemicals |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/B | 1.48 | 6.57 |
| P/S | 2.72 | 2.59 |
| EV/EBITDA | 31.5 | 58.1 |
| Revenue growth | +9.5% | +8.7% |
| Gross margin | 35.1% | — |
| Operating margin | 16.3% | — |
| Net margin | -4.2% | 8.9% |
| Return on equity | -2.3% | 22.6% |
| Return on assets | -1.5% | 5.8% |
| Return on invested capital | -1.0% | — |
| FCF yield | 3.9% | 3.5% |
| Dividend yield | 1.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.19 | 1.33 |
| Current ratio | 2.07 | 1.43 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.00 | 2.21 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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