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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Albemarle Corp. (NYSE:ALB) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of August 21 and a Sell Date of December 2 has resulted in a geometric average return of 4.85% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 16 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 3.8% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Materials sector, which runs from November 20 to May 5. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Materials Sector Seasonal Chart.

Albemarle Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of chemicals for consumer electronics, petroleum refining, utilities, packaging, construction, transportation, pharmaceuticals, crop production, food-safety, and custom chemistry services. It operates through the following segments: Energy Storage, Specialties, Ketjen, and All Other. The Energy Storage segment develops and manufactures a broad range of basic lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium chloride. The Specialties segment focuses on optimizing a portfolio of bromine and specialized lithium solutions. The Ketjen segment consists of clean fuels technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions, which is primarily composed of organometallics and curatives. The All Other segment refers only to the FCS business that did not fit into any of the company s core businesses. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

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