ALB Albemarle Corporationdata gap · 80% coverage
Materials · Specialty Chemicals · close $95.48 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Albemarle Corporation (ALB) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 58/100 (grade C), ranking #8 of 57 in Materials. Its strongest pillars are cash flow (82) and balance sheet (63); its weakest is valuation (26). Data gap: 3 factors without usable data, so 80% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 18.3% and operating margin 4.3%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift, EPS growth YoY (TTM). Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 80% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 59| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (22.2%) | 18.3% | 74 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
| Revenue acceleration (11.1%) | -1.6% | 30 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 55| Operating margin (10.7%) | 4.3% | 18 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (9.3%) | 16.1% | 98 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 63| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 0.27× | 85 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 2.09 | 55 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | 1.21× | 17 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 82| FCF margin (6.7%) | 13.5% | 76 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | 6.1% | 87 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 26| P/E (inverted) (6.7%) | 367.23× | 0 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.7%) | 1.95× | 52 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 26.4 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 99.71 / 105.18 |
| 200-day SMA | 153.23 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 0.87× |
| 20-day return | -17.0% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
- WATCHTrend: close below 200-day average
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Gross profit: GrossProfit · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestAndDebtExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is ALB's House Rating?
- ALB scores 58 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #8 of 57 Materials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about ALB?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does ALB report earnings next?
- ALB's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-11-04 (window 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-11), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is ALB a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology