ALBAlbemarle
Smart Score
How it is scored →The Smart Score (1–10) describes how this instrument compares with its peers on published, rules-based measures of value, quality, trend, stability and dividend safety. It is not a forecast and not personal advice.
Compared with: Materials companies in USA (n = 71)
Current rating first published: · last recomputed · rating log
Factor scores
Percentiles within the peer group (100 = the best of its peers); dividend safety in points.
Main drivers
- Gross profit growth / assets (5 y)weighs on the score · percentile 9
- Share issuance (1 y)weighs on the score · percentile 4
- Volatility (1 y)weighs on the score · percentile 13
Red flags and notes
- Caution:Cash burn Negative free cash flow in at least two of the last three years.
- Caution:Dividend cut risk Dividend Safety below 40 points.
- Caution:Payout above earnings Dividends exceed earnings or free cash flow.
- Caution:High leverage Net debt above 4× EBITDA or interest cover below 2×.
Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.
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Key metrics
Valuation
- P/E
- 201.3
- P/B
- 1.4
- P/S
- 2.0
- EV/EBIT
- 56.7
- Free-cash-flow yield
- 11.6%
- Market cap (EUR)
- €10.3B
Profitability and debt
- Return on equity
- 2.2%
- Return on invested capital
- 1.5%
- Gross margin
- 23.8%
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.27
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 1.66%
- Payout ratio
- 625%
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- 0.9%
- Years of dividend growth
- 24
Returns and risk
- 1 day
- +0.3%
- 1 month
- −14.8%
- 1 year
- +3.0%
- Volatility, 1 yr
- 56.0%
- Max drawdown, 1 yr
- −54.4%
- Beta
- 1.38
Ratios from SEC filings and end-of-day prices; returns are price changes without dividends.
News and filings
- ALBEMARLE CORP: 8-K — Director or officer change; Regulation FD disclosure
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 3 Sep 2026
- ALBEMARLE CORP: 8-K — Director or officer change
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 21 Aug 2026
- ALBEMARLE CORP: 10-Q — Quarterly report for the period ending 2026-06-30
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 5 Aug 2026
- ALBEMARLE CORP: 8-K — Results of operations
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 5 Aug 2026
- ALBEMARLE CORP: 8-K — Director or officer change; Regulation FD disclosure
FactSEC EDGAR · Filing · 23 Jul 2026
- FactA filing (SEC EDGAR) or an exchange notice (Moscow Exchange): the issuer's or the exchange's own statement.
- Media reportA headline from a named media outlet. We link to it and do not check it.
- RumourUnconfirmed: the headline itself hedges (“reportedly”, “sources say”, “in talks”), names no publisher, or comes from a news aggregator or an automated republisher.
Source: Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR. The tone is scored automatically from the headline and can be wrong.
Score changes in the last 12 months
Every published rating and change, logged when it was published (EU Market Abuse Regulation).
| Date | Event | Balanced | Growth · Income | Warnings | Price at publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First rating | 1/10 | 1 · 1 | Caution:Cash burnCaution:Dividend cut riskCaution:Payout above earningsCaution:High leverage | Available with Invest Pro |
Ratings are rules-based descriptions, valid until the next scoring run (about 06:20 and 21:50 UTC) and the same for every visitor.
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