Pricing Log in Create free account
Saturday 17 October 2026 Export ALB’s income statement to Excel — free account

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
Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios Filings 10-Q 10-K

Albemarle Corporation (ALB) Operating margin

Alert me on Operating margin

Albemarle Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 4.27%, up 11.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (−7.14%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −33.0% (fiscal 2024) to 33.7% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 3.63% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.82%.

Operating margin, annual

Embed this chart

Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 −7.14% 25.90
FY2024 −33.0% (35.66)
FY2023 2.62% (31.12)
FY2022 33.7% 9.75
FY2021 24.0% 7.82
FY2020 16.2% (2.39)
FY2019 18.6% (8.45)
FY2018 27.0% 8.40
FY2017 18.6% (3.84)
FY2016 22.5% 10.24

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 26.0% 9.64
Mar 2026 16.3% 31.56
Dec 2025 −15.2% 1.37
Sep 2025 −16.6% (20.16)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −33.0% High 33.7%
Ten-year median 18.6%
Current reading's percentile 26

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare 33.3%
NEU NewMarket Corporation compare 20.0%
SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare 14.4%
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 12.6%
ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare 12.6%
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 9.90%
ALB Albemarle Corporation 4.27%
SSL Sasol Ltd. compare 0.00%
WLK Westlake Corporation compare −11.0%
Specialty Chemicals industry median 3.63%
Basic Materials sector median 0.82%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

The full definition of Operating margin →

More on ALB