Is it safe?
Can ALB take a bad year?
Albemarle Corporation carries $792M of net debt at 1.58× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$792M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.58×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Altman Z-score
- 2.38
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.88B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.09B
- Net debt
- $792M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $501M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$153M
- Debt / equity
- 0.19×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 61%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −84%
- Below its 52-week high
- −37%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.