ALBAlbemarle Corporation

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Albemarle Corporation was incorporated in Virginia in 1993. 10-K, Item 1

Employees: 7,800
Headquarters: Charlotte, NC
CEO: J. Kent Masters
Next results: around Feb 10, 2027

The biggest changes in the 10-K filed 2026-02-11, this fiscal year against the last, and the sentences in the MD&A (Item 7) where management explains them, quoted word for word. Tickdelta picks sentences that name the line, a direction and a cause. It does not write explanations of its own.

Operating margin

-33.0% → -7.1% (+25.9 pts) Big change FY to 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31

The MD&A has no sentence that names a cause for this change. That can be worth a question: ask about the filing.

Gross margin

1.2% → 13.0% (+11.8 pts) Big change FY to 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31

The MD&A has no sentence that names a cause for this change. That can be worth a question: ask about the filing.

Cash from operations

+86.4% Big change FY to 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31

“The increase in cash provided by operating activities in 2025 versus 2024 was primarily due to the receipt of an Energy Storage customer prepayment of $350 million during the first quarter of 2025 and increased earnings from Specialties and Ketjen, partially offset by a decrease in cash flows from working capital changes, lower dividends received from unconsolidated investments and decreased earnings from the Energy Storage segment, driven by lower average lithium market prices in 2025.”
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Revenue

-4.4% FY to 2025-12-31 vs 2024-12-31

“We recorded net sales of $5.1 billion during 2025; driven by 9% year-over-year increase in Energy Storage volume.”
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“Higher sales volume in all of our businesses, driven primarily by Energy Storage”
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