Albemarle Corporation
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $138.00, Albemarle Corporation (ALB) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~5.0 years. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 25, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Just under half the business is lithium and the rest is not: Energy Storage is 53% of revenue, with bromine-based Specialties at 27% and the Ketjen refining-catalyst business at 21%, which is why a lithium trough dented rather than erased the company. • Earnings are set by a price Albemarle does not control, and the 10-K says so directly: ⟦Energy Storage net sales and profitability are strongly dependent on lithium market prices, which are volatile⟧. • Second-quarter results land August 5, 202
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947 institutional managers reported holding ALB in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 90% of the company; the top 10 hold 46%. 180 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, Capital Group (American Funds), BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 11.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 9% of shares outstanding (4.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
ALB's share count grew 0.9% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 10 years straight; the current rate is $1.62 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $520.60M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at ALB over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $167k. 20 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ALB's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | -4.2% | -22.2% |
| 2023-11-02 | -1.7% | +9.1% |
| 2024-02-16 | +4.7% | -8.5% |
| 2024-05-02 | +4.2% | -20.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ALB's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-21 (items 5.02); 2026-08-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-07-23 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-06-05 (items 5.02); 2026-05-08 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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