Albemarle Stock: Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish?

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Albemarle Corporation (ALB) develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals worldwide. With a marketplace headdress of $11.4 billion, Albemarle operates done Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen segments.

Specialty chemic elephantine Albemarle has notably underperformed the broader marketplace implicit the past year. ALB banal prices have gained 12.9% connected a YTD ground and declined 2.8% implicit the past 52 weeks, compared to the S&P 500 Index’s ($SPX) 14.4% gains successful 2025 and 12.7% returns implicit the past year.

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Narrowing the focus, ALB has outpaced the sector-focused Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund’s (XLB) 2% uptick successful 2025 and 10% plunge implicit the past 52 weeks.

Albemarle’s banal prices observed a marginal dip successful the trading league pursuing the merchandise of its mixed Q3 results connected Nov. 5. While its specialties segment’s volumes dropped by 1%, its vigor retention and Ketjen volumes accrued by 8% each. However, its wide results were severely impacted by unfavorable pricing. ALB’s topline came successful astatine $1.3 billion, down 3.5% year-over-year, but 1.2% supra the Street expectations. Meanwhile, it reported a antagonistic adjusted EPS of $0.19, but it surpassed the consensus estimates by 79.4%.

For the afloat fiscal 2025, ending successful December, Albemarle is expected to present an adjusted nonaccomplishment of $1.59 per share, up from the nonaccomplishment of $2.34 per stock reported successful the year-ago quarter. The institution has a mixed net astonishment history. While it missed the Street’s bottom-line expectations erstwhile implicit the past 4 quarters, it has surpassed the projections connected 3 different occasions.

Among the 28 analysts covering the ALB stock, the statement standing is simply a “Hold.” That’s based connected six “Strong Buys,” 2 “Moderate Buys,” 16 “Holds,” and 2 “Strong Sells.”

This configuration is somewhat pessimistic compared to a period ago, erstwhile 7 analysts gave “Strong Buy” recommendations.

On Nov. 7, Truist Securities expert Peter Osterland maintained a “Hold” standing connected ALB and raised the terms people from $87 to $91.

As of writing, ALB is trading supra its mean terms people of $95.21. Meanwhile, the street-high people of $135 suggests a 38.9% upside imaginable from existent terms levels.

On the day of publication, Aditya Sarawgi did not person (either straight oregon indirectly) positions successful immoderate of the securities mentioned successful this article. All accusation and information successful this nonfiction is solely for informational purposes. This nonfiction was originally published connected Barchart.com