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.

95.48 2.70 −2.75%
Market cap
$11.6B
P/E
199×
Fwd P/E
14.9×
Dividend yield
1.70%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.31
Beneish M
−3.71
Dividend safety
47/100

Albemarle Corporation (ALB) EV/EBITDA

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As of 16 October 2026, Albemarle Corporation (ALB) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 10.7×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (September 2025) to 52.1× (February 2026); the current reading is higher than 33% of that period. That is below the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 12.8× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 9.4×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 38.5× —
FY2024 0.0× —
FY2023 30.1× 210.54%
FY2022 9.7× (64.89%)
FY2021 27.6× 9.90%
FY2020 25.1× 117.01%
FY2019 11.6× 35.35%
FY2018 8.5× (57.03%)
FY2017 19.9× 64.63%
FY2016 12.1× (25.62%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Jun 2026 15.0× (53.22%)
Mar 2026 32.2× (16.55%)
Dec 2025 38.5× 138.00%
Sep 2025 16.2× —
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.0× High 52.1×
Ten-year median 14.7×
Current reading's percentile 33

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
SSL Sasol Ltd. compare 0.4×
ALB Albemarle Corporation 10.7×
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 12.0×
SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare 13.3×
NEU NewMarket Corporation compare 13.5×
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 14.5×
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare 17.8×
WLK Westlake Corporation compare 18.1×
ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare 18.7×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 12.8×
Basic Materials sector median 9.4×
Market median 11.0×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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