Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB)’s traded shares stood at 0.84 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.76. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $54.34, to imply a decrease of -0.68% or -$0.37 in intraday trading. The ALB share’s 52-week high remains $137.50, putting it -153.04% down since that peak but still an impressive 9.04% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $49.43. The company has a valuation of $6.39B, with an average of 4.8 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 2.99 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Albemarle Corp (ALB), translating to a mean rating of 2.45. Of 19 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give ALB a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 6 advise Hold as 11 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at -0.63.
Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB) trade information
After registering a -0.68% downside in the latest session, Albemarle Corp (ALB) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -7.13%, and -24.94% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -36.87%. Short interest in Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB) saw shorts transact 12.75 million shares and set a 4.45 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $68 and $127 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, ALB has been trading -133.71% off suggested target high and -25.14% from its likely low.
Albemarle Corp (ALB) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -5.60% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 17 analysts is 1.17B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 16 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 1.24B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 1.36B and 1.43B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -13.84% before dropping -13.05% in the following quarter.
ALB Dividends
Albemarle Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-11. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Albemarle Corp has a forward dividend ratio of 1.61, with the share yield ticking at 2.97% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 1.13%.
Albemarle Corp (NYSE:ALB)’s Major holders
Albemarle Corp insiders hold 0.38% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 99.27% of the shares at 99.65% float percentage. In total, 99.27% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 14.31 million shares (or 12.1856% of shares), all amounting to roughly $1.37 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 9.96 million shares, or about 8.4776% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $951.72 million.
We also have AMERICAN BALANCED FUND and GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Albemarle Corp (ALB) shares. Going by data provided on Dec 31, 2024 , AMERICAN BALANCED FUND holds roughly 4.45 shares. This is just over 3.78% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $241.37 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 4.0, or 3.40% of the shares, all valued at about 217.13 million.
