Is the price fair?
What ALB's price assumes
Today's price asks for 12% free cash flow growth a year; over the last three years Albemarle Corporation delivered −16%, the price is ahead of the record.
3.87
Price / sales · no P/E: the last twelve months did not end in a profit
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.0%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Chemicals median 3.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +12%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +12% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −16% a year over the last three.
- Price / book
- 2.16
Price / book · as of 2026-Q1
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.16
- EV / EBIToperating margin −2.8%: the multiple describes the denominator
- not meaningful
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 4.01
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $575M
- Market capitalisation
- $18.9B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −14%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −16%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.