ALB·Albemarle Corporation

Realized volatility (21d)

46.7% 69th pct

Below its peak

-59.5%

vs 200-day average

-16.1%

Up days (1y)

53%

Albemarle Corporation is currently running 46.7% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against ALB's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 69th percentile — a little above its own norm, against a typical reading of 38.5%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

ALB is trading -59.5% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -35.4%, and the deepest was -60.4% in 2023. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -16.1% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 21st percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year ALB closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a falling streak.

On September specifically: over 13 years of records, ALB finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +2.4% and an average of +1.4%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +6.9% on average, its weakest March at -3.2%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: ALB has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 231 of 3,267 sessions (7.1% of the time), with the largest gaps running +9.3% and -21.8%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, ALB moved an average of 3.8% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -0.5% and a largest of -6.1%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-09-05 and 2026-09-04, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against ALB's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.