Albemarle Corporation
ALB Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals
Albemarle Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $5.1 billion, down 4.37% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 31.1%, EPS grew 2,425.0%, free cash flow grew 708.4% and total debt fell 48.2%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years.
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Albemarle Corporation (ALB) Altman Z-score
Albemarle Corporation's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 2.31, in the grey zone (1.81–2.99).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2.31 | 0.80 |
| FY2024 | 1.52 | (0.88) |
| FY2023 | 2.40 | (1.40) |
| FY2022 | 3.80 | (0.30) |
| FY2021 | 4.10 | 1.59 |
| FY2020 | 2.50 | 0.59 |
| FY2019 | 1.91 | (0.85) |
| FY2018 | 2.76 | (0.61) |
| FY2017 | 3.37 | 0.74 |
| FY2016 | 2.63 | 1.35 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.13 | — | 0.16 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.28 | — | 0.39 | |
| EBIT / total assets | (0.02) | — | −0.07 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 2.52 | — | 1.51 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.31 | — | 0.31 | |
| Altman Z-score | Grey zone | 2.31 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Safe zone | 3.21 | ||
Z and Z″ put Albemarle Corporation in different zones: grey zone by Z, safe zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
| Company | Altman Z-score |
|---|---|
| NEU NewMarket Corporation compare | 4.4× |
| RPM RPM International Inc. compare | 3.7× |
| SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare | 3.1× |
| ALB Albemarle Corporation | 2.3× |
| SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare | 2.3× |
| ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare | 2.2× |
| SSL Sasol Ltd. compare | 1.9× |
| WLK Westlake Corporation compare | 1.6× |
| DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare | 0.4× |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets
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