Company Metrics

• 21.11 P/E
• 2.18 P/S
• 3.25 P/B
• 3.139 EPS
• 10.57% Cash ROIC
• 1.17 Cash Ratio
• 0.84 / 1.27% Dividend
• 736,730.00 Avg. Vol.
• 87.84M Shares
• 5.915B Market Cap.

Company Description

Albemarle Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Polymer Solutions, Catalysts, and Fine Chemistry. The Polymer Solutions segment provides brominated, mineral, and phosphorus based flame retardants used in plastic enclosures for consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, wire and cable, electrical connectors, textiles, foam insulation, and foam seating in furniture and automobiles; and plastic and other additives, such as curatives, antioxidants, and stabilizers. The Catalysts segment offers refinery catalysts, including hydroprocessing catalysts, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts, and additives; polyolefin catalysts comprising aluminum and magnesium-alkyls used as co-catalysts and in the preparation of organic intermediates; and metallocene/single-site catalysts to develop and produce new polymers. The Fine Chemicals segment provides elemental bromine, alkyl bromides, inorganic bromides, brominated powdered activated carbon, and bromine fine chemicals used in chemical synthesis, oil and gas well drilling and completion fluids, mercury control, paper manufacturing, water purification, and beef and poultry processing. It also offers tertiary amines for surfactants, biocides, disinfectants, and sanitizers; potassium-based products for industrial applications; alkenyl succinic anhydride used in paper-sizing formulations; and aluminum oxides used in various refractory, ceramic, and polishing applications. In addition, this segment supplies fine chemical products and performance chemicals for the pharmaceutical and agricultural uses, as well as provides custom manufacturing, research, and chemical scale-up services for companies. The company markets its products through distributors, sales representatives, and specialists. Albemarle Corporation was founded in 1993 and is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Albemarle Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets engineered specialty chemicals in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Polymer Solutions, Catalysts, and Fine Chemistry. The Polymer Solutions segment provides brominated, mineral, and phosphorus based flame retardants used in plastic enclosures for consumer electronics, printed circuit boards, wire...
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