ALB Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own ALB shares is 1176, representing 96.62% of the company's common stock.

US BANCORP \DE\, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ALB by -2.16% restricting it's holding to 764.32 thousand shares of worth nearly $100.69M. AMUNDI also lessened -12.18% of the ALB shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 904.35 thousand shares of worth $104.49M. NORTHERN TRUST CORP also shunned ALB shares holding by -2.84% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.17 million shares worth $153.48M.

As per its latest 13F filing, CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC increased its stake in ALB by 4.54% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 714.74 thousand shares having worth more than $94.16M. UBS GROUP AG also added 320.72% more shares of ALB to its portfolio, raising its holding to 856.37 thousand shares of worth $112.82M. LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC also increased its ALB shares holding by 0.48% which brought its holding to 886.29 thousand shares worth $116.76M.

The insider with the most stakes in ALB is KISSAM LUTHER C IV , director at the company. Additionally, ALB stock is highly held by Chairman & CEO Masters J Kent and EVP & CFO Tozier Scott among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.33% percent of Albemarle Corporation's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 2 transaction(s) in which ALB insiders have sold stock, totaling 3.59K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include MASTERS J KENT, JOHNSON NETHA N., and MUMMERT MARK RICHARD.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Albemarle Corporation insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 104.11K Albemarle Corporation shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.33% of ALB stock.

ALB director, KISSAM LUTHER C IV holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ALB shares owned by KISSAM total nearly 106.51 thousand.

CHARLES SCHWAB INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC is the largest institutional owner in ALB which holds 714.74 thousand shares worth $94.16M or 0.61% of the total ALB shares outstanding followed by US BANCORP \DE\ with ownership of 764.32 thousand shares representing 0.65% of the ALB ownership. UBS GROUP AG is the third largest stakeholder with 856.37 thousand shares or 0.73% of the ownership worth more than $112.82M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the ALB is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of ALB shares short is 13.22M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 117.54M shares of ALB are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, ALB has 117.05M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for ALB is 7.14.