Albemarle Corp. (NYSE:ALB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.18M but it saw 1800573 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 10.34B USD, the company’s current market price of $88.00 came falling about -1.10 while comparing to the previous closing price of $88.98. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $203.62 and as low as $71.97. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $87.55 while lowest mark touched by it was $88.67.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Albemarle Corp. (ALB) gives us an average price of $83.46, while its current price level is -56.78% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 22.27% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $90.51 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $116.20. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.69% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 5.08%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 51.35 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Robert W. Baird which downgraded the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on August 05, 2024, recommending a price target of between $102 and $85 for it. Berenberg downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Buy” on July 31, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $160-$83. HSBC Securities also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $95.
Over the week, ALB’s stock price is moving -0.68% down while it is -4.88% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -39.09% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -53.60%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 2.74 beaten by the consensus estimate of 3.99 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Oct-30, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.23 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.32. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.47B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $5.6B and seeing the company making $6.25B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.4B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Albemarle Corp.’s total number of outstanding shares is 117.36M with 0.35% of that held by the insiders while 95.58% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -3.73% and return on equity (ROE) at -4.76%. It has a 25.23 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.55. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.15 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.39. Its return on asset (ROA) is -2.67% on average.
