Albemarle Corporation (ALB) completed business day with performance of 1.15% and closed at $99.2 per share value in Tuesday trading session. The recent trading activity revealed that the stock price is at 14.35% off from its 52-week low and traded with move of -30.95% from high printed in the last 52-week period. The Company kept 107.37M Floating Shares and holds 112.15M shares outstanding.
The company’s earnings per share shows growth of 8.30% for the current year and expected to arrive earnings growth for the next year at 13.09% . Analyst projected EPS growth for the next 5 years at12.70%. The company’s EPS growth rate for past five years was 4.30%. The earnings growth rate for the next years is an important measure for investors planning to hold onto a stock for several years. The company’s earnings will usually have a direct relationship to the price of the company’s stock. The stock observed Sales growth of 4.00% during past 5 years. EPS growth quarter over quarter stands at 14.50% and Sales growth quarter over quarter is at 3.00%.
Shares price moved with -8.77% from its 50 Day high and distanced at 7.07% from 50 Day low. Analyses consensus rating score stands at 2. For the next one year period, the average of individual price target estimates referred by covering sell-side analysts is $126.55.
As took short look on profitability, the firm profit margin which was recorded 10.40%, and operating margin was noted at 27.60%. The company maintained a Gross Margin of 36.40%. The Institutional ownership of the firm is 95.40% while Insiders ownership is 0.10%. Company has kept return on investment (ROI) at 10.40% over the previous 12 months and has been able to maintain return on asset (ROA) at 4.60% for the last twelve months. Return on equity (ROE) recorded at 9.40%.
Albemarle Corporation (ALB) stock recent traded volume stands with 1448529 shares as compared with its average volume of 1445.6K shares. The relative volume observed at 1.
Volume Interpretation:
Volume is simply the number of shares traded during a specified time frame (e.g., hour, day, week, month, etc). The analysis of volume is a basic yet very important element of technical analysis. Volume provides clues as to the intensity of a given price move. Low volume levels are characteristic of the indecisive expectations that typically occur during consolidation periods (i.e., periods where prices move sideways in a trading range). Low volume also often occurs during the indecisive period during market bottoms. High volume levels are characteristic of market tops when there is a strong consensus that prices will move higher. High volume levels are also very common at the beginning of new trends (i.e., when prices break out of a trading range). Just before market bottoms, volume will often increase due to panic-driven selling.
The current ratio of 1.8 is mainly used to give an idea of a company’s ability to pay back its liabilities (debt and accounts payable) with its assets (cash, marketable securities, inventory, accounts receivable). As such, current ratio can be used to make a rough estimate of a company’s financial health. The quick ratio of 1.2 is a measure of how well a company can meet its short-term financial liabilities with quick assets (cash and cash equivalents, short-term marketable securities, and accounts receivable). The higher the ratio, the more financially secure a company is in the short term. A common rule of thumb is that companies with a quick ratio of greater than 1.0 are sufficiently able to meet their short-term liabilities.
The long term debt/equity shows a value of 0.4 with a total debt/equity of 0.48. It gives the investors the idea on the company’s financial leverage, measured by apportioning total liabilities by its stockholders equity. It also illustrates how much debt the corporation is using to finance its assets in relation to the value represented in shareholders’ equity.
Which Moving Averages Are Most Important?
Longer-term investors as well as swing traders often monitor the 50-day simple moving average. This moving average will react quicker than a 200-day moving average. The 50-day moving average is useful for spotting medium-term trends, while the 200-day moving average is only focused on the long-term trend.
Swing traders will mostly focus on short-term trends, as they want to get in and out of the market within a matter of days or weeks. These types of traders will typically use a 20-day, 10-day, five-day simple or exponential moving averages, or a combination of them. Since these moving averages will react quite quickly to price changes, trade signals appear more often, hopefully alerting the short-term trader to opportunities. The lower the length of the moving average the more closely it tracks the price movement. The 200-day moving average shows only the overall price trajectory, while the progressively shorter length averages track smaller and smaller price trends.
Albemarle Corporation (ALB) stock moved down -0.51% in contrast to its 20 day moving average displaying short-term negative movement of stock. It shifted -0.93% down its 50-day simple moving average. This is showing medium-term bearish trend based on SMA 50. The stock price went above 0.82% from its 200-day simple moving average identifying long-term positive trend.
