Previous close | 204.97 |
Open | 208.30 |
Bid | 204.23 x 1800 |
Ask | 204.26 x 2200 |
Day's range | 201.02 - 208.63 |
52-week range | 171.82 - 334.55 |
Volume | |
Avg. volume | 2,300,864 |
Market cap | 23.935B |
Beta (5Y monthly) | 1.54 |
PE ratio (TTM) | 6.54 |
EPS (TTM) | 31.19 |
Earnings date | 01 Aug 2023 - 07 Aug 2023 |
Forward dividend & yield | 1.60 (0.78%) |
Ex-dividend date | 15 Jun 2023 |
1y target est | 265.98 |
While Albemarle (ALB) faces headwinds from high input costs, it benefits from higher lithium volumes and actions to boost its global lithium capacity.
In addition to the supply of lithium hydroxide, Albemarle (ALB) and Ford plan to explore collaborations to build a closed-loop solution for lithium-ion battery recycling.
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After falling consistently in recent months, Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) stock reversed course this week and was trading up 10% as of 10 a.m. ET Friday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Bumper numbers from Albemarle and lithium prices rebounding after a steep recent fall proved to be the perfect catalysts for investors to hit the buy button. Lithium carbonate prices hit 19-month lows on April 24 on oversupply concerns and fears of declining electric vehicle (EV) sales.
Currently, lithium carbonate, a key ingredient in EV batteries, is down some 70% from highs but back to where it was priced just in late 2021. Bear in mind that Albemarle, a global mining company that has been around for decades, made a hard pivot to lithium in the last few years. This explains why Albemarle's first-quarter 2023 revenue more than doubled year over year, up 129% to $2.6 billion.
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In Q1, the lithium giant's earnings soared 334%, driven by powerful lithium demand for EV batteries
Thank you, Forum, and welcome, everyone, to Albemarle's first-quarter 2023 earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today are Kent Masters, chief executive officer; and Scott Tozier, chief financial officer.
Albemarle (ALB) gains on higher lithium pricing and increased volumes in the first quarter.
Huntsman (HUN) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Albemarle (ALB) is likely to have benefited from higher lithium prices and volumes and its cost-reduction actions in the first quarter amid headwinds from higher input costs.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -While Chile's plan to take control of its lithium industry has caused global shockwaves, state-led production of the metal used to make electric vehicle batteries is seen by analysts as likely years away given technical and political challenges. President Gabriel Boric last week said he would move to gradually nationalize the country's lithium industry, which holds the world's largest reserves of the metal, in a bid to boost Chile's economy. The plan relies on negotiations with lithium producers, public-private partnerships with technology companies, tense negotiations with political rivals, and the creation of a national lithium company, all of which could take years to accomplish, analysts said.
While softer demand in certain end markets is likely to be a drag, Albemarle (ALB), DuPont (DD), Axalta (AXTA) and LyondellBasell (LYB) are likely to have benefited from cost and pricing actions in Q1.
Albemarle (ALB) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
CF Industries' (CF) first-quarter performance will likely reflect the impacts of softer nitrogen prices and high natural gas costs.
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FMC Corp.'s (FMC) first-quarter performance is likely to have gained from healthy demand, pricing actions and new products.
Lithium investors are having a bad day Friday, as reports out of Chile that President Gabriel Boric intends to nationalize the Chilean lithium industry devastate shares of lithium companies with interests in the country. This is bad news for investors in lithium stock Albemarle (NYSE: ALB), shares of which are down 10.4% as of 3 p.m. ET on the news. Specifically, the good news is that while Albemarle may be hurt by Chile's action, it won't be hurt as badly as Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (NYSE: SQM), another lithium miner that's seeing its shares devastated today.
These companies have logged between nearly three and almost seven straight decades of dividend growth.