Albemarle Corporation ALB

109.73 1.48 1.37% as of 25 Sep
Market cap
$12.9B
P/E
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Albemarle Corporation (ALB) 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

Annual

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

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 18

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare 33.3%
SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare 14.4%
ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare 12.6%
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 12.3%
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 9.90%
ALB Albemarle Corporation 4.27%
LYB LyondellBasell Industries N.V. compare 3.09%
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

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