Albemarle Corporation (ALB)

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Albemarle Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Albemarle Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.7 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 47% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Albemarle Corporation's diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 17% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Albemarle Corporation lost about 5 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 4 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 40 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Albemarle Corporation's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 39% by size; a net margin of -9.9% ranks in the bottom 28%; revenue growth of -11.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

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Albemarle Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Masters, J Kent (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2020-05-11, 6.5 years (top 28% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.3 years (bottom 39%); 12 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Albemarle Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.6 billion against debt of $3.1 billion leaves -9.2% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 13.5% of revenue (top 6%); a gross margin of 13% (bottom 31%); research spending of 1% of revenue (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Albemarle Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -11.1% a year over the last three filed years against 7.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 6% of its family); the newest year grew -4.4% (bottom 31%); research spending grew -10.6% a year (bottom 28%); capital spending grew -22.4% a year (bottom 28%) (its annual reports). Albemarle Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Energy Storage at $2.7 billion, Specialties at $1.4 billion, Ketjen at $1.1 billion. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 53% of revenue (its annual report).

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Albemarle Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 11.6% above the $4.6 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 31% of its family); net income of $511 million against a prior three-year average of $1.0 billion (bottom 31%); a net margin of -9.9% against 10.4% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).