Albemarle ALB Price / earnings
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Albemarle’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
The official record: Albemarle’s 10-Q, filed November 6, 2024, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Albemarle's price / earnings?
- Albemarle (ALB) reported price / earnings of 6× in Q3 2023.
- How has Albemarle's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
- Albemarle's price / earnings decreased by 69.8% year-over-year, from 19.9× to 6×.
- What does price / earnings mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
- How do you interpret price / earnings?
- Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
- How does price / earnings compare across companies?
- Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.