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) P/S ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Albemarle Corporation (ALB) trades at a P/S ratio of 1.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.1× (August 2024) to 10.0× (November 2021); the current reading is higher than 20% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 1.5× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 1.6×.

P/S ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
FY2025 3.2× 72.03%
FY2024 1.9× 4.98%
FY2023 1.8× (47.79%)
FY2022 3.4× (57.82%)
FY2021 8.1× 62.21%
FY2020 5.0× 132.69%
FY2019 2.2× (12.93%)
FY2018 2.5× (47.86%)
FY2017 4.7× 28.49%
FY2016 3.7× 67.76%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
Jun 2026 2.7× (29.99%)
Mar 2026 3.9× 19.00%
Dec 2025 3.2× 67.75%
Sep 2025 1.9× 30.63%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.1× High 10.0×
Ten-year median 2.9×
Current reading's percentile 18

P/S ratio against peers

Company P/S ratio
SSL Sasol Ltd. compare n/m
WLK Westlake Corporation compare 0.7×
RPM RPM International Inc. compare 1.6×
ALB Albemarle Corporation 1.9×
SQM Sociedad Quimica y Minera S.A. compare 2.0×
SOLS Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. compare 2.3×
DD DuPont de Nemours, Inc. compare 2.5×
ESI Element Solutions Inc. compare 2.7×
NEU NewMarket Corporation compare 2.9×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 1.5×
Basic Materials sector median 1.6×
Market median 1.9×

What P/S ratio is

Price to Sales Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual sales, whether or not it is profitable.

(Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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