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Albemarle Corp

ALB
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers
SEC CIK
0000915913

No open-market purchases or sales by Albemarle Corp insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 949 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $15.6B in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Other share classesALB.PA

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
12.4M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+151.5K
+1.2% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
5.28
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
2.35M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 13,634,704 sharesNov 15, 2024: 12,338,709 sharesNov 29, 2024: 12,715,602 sharesDec 13, 2024: 13,194,455 sharesDec 31, 2024: 13,218,998 sharesJan 15, 2025: 13,151,195 sharesJan 31, 2025: 13,160,204 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 11,245,487 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 12,012,540 sharesMar 14, 2025: 12,751,247 sharesMar 31, 2025: 12,973,993 sharesApr 15, 2025: 14,441,189 sharesApr 30, 2025: 17,056,357 sharesMay 15, 2025: 18,833,138 sharesMay 30, 2025: 18,628,368 sharesJun 13, 2025: 18,702,937 sharesJun 30, 2025: 17,324,709 sharesJul 15, 2025: 14,734,696 sharesJul 31, 2025: 14,771,116 sharesAug 15, 2025: 13,371,409 sharesAug 29, 2025: 12,749,135 sharesSep 15, 2025: 15,483,585 sharesSep 30, 2025: 13,721,041 sharesOct 15, 2025: 13,030,103 sharesOct 31, 2025: 10,084,460 sharesNov 14, 2025: 10,851,770 sharesNov 28, 2025: 9,751,669 sharesDec 15, 2025: 9,764,134 sharesDec 31, 2025: 9,380,735 sharesJan 15, 2026: 9,698,304 sharesJan 30, 2026: 9,130,533 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 8,590,028 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 9,924,799 sharesMar 13, 2026: 9,357,663 sharesMar 31, 2026: 9,998,649 sharesApr 15, 2026: 10,484,921 sharesApr 30, 2026: 10,285,902 sharesMay 15, 2026: 10,711,686 sharesMay 29, 2026: 10,755,174 sharesJun 15, 2026: 10,975,478 sharesJun 30, 2026: 11,001,407 sharesJul 15, 2026: 10,733,519 sharesJul 31, 2026: 11,190,342 sharesAug 14, 2026: 10,236,285 sharesAug 31, 2026: 9,633,162 sharesSep 15, 2026: 11,113,554 sharesSep 30, 2026: 11,764,871 sharesOct 15, 2026: 12,251,426 sharesOct 30, 2026: 12,402,907 shares
Short interest in ALB by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202612.4M+151.5K+1.2%2.35M5.28
Oct 15, 202612.3M+486.6K+4.1%2.48M4.95
Sep 30, 202611.8M+651.3K+5.9%2.61M4.51
Sep 15, 202611.1M+1.48M+15.4%2.65M4.20
Aug 31, 20269.63M−603.1K−5.9%1.84M5.23
Aug 14, 202610.2M−954.1K−8.5%2.42M4.22
Jul 31, 202611.2M+456.8K+4.3%2.37M4.73
Jul 15, 202610.7M−267.9K−2.4%1.87M5.75
Jun 30, 202611.0M+25.9K+0.2%2.92M3.77
Jun 15, 202611.0M+220.3K+2.1%2.38M4.61
May 29, 202610.8M+43.5K+0.4%1.99M5.41
May 15, 202610.7M+425.8K+4.1%2.26M4.75
Apr 30, 202610.3M−199.0K−1.9%2.40M4.29
Apr 15, 202610.5M+486.3K+4.9%1.61M6.51
Mar 31, 202610.0M+641.0K+6.9%1.99M5.02
Mar 13, 20269.36M−567.1K−5.7%2.13M4.38
Feb 27, 20269.92M+1.33M+15.5%2.43M4.09
Feb 13, 20268.59M−540.5K−5.9%3.03M2.84
Jan 30, 20269.13M−567.8K−5.9%4.07M2.24
Jan 15, 20269.70M+317.6K+3.4%3.46M2.80
Dec 31, 20259.38M−383.4K−3.9%2.71M3.46
Dec 15, 20259.76M+12.5K+0.1%3.23M3.02
Nov 28, 20259.75M−1.10M−10.1%4.10M2.38
Nov 14, 202510.9M+767.3K+7.6%4.20M2.59
Oct 31, 202510.1M−2.95M−22.6%3.12M3.24
Oct 15, 202513.0M−690.9K−5.0%3.50M3.73
Sep 30, 202513.7M−1.76M−11.4%3.31M4.14
Sep 15, 202515.5M+2.73M+21.5%4.72M3.28
Aug 29, 202512.7M−622.3K−4.7%3.31M3.85
Aug 15, 202513.4M−1.40M−9.5%4.83M2.77
Jul 31, 202514.8M+36.4K+0.3%6.32M2.34
Jul 15, 202514.7M−2.59M−15.0%4.15M3.55
Jun 30, 202517.3M−1.38M−7.4%3.42M5.06
Jun 13, 202518.7M+74.6K+0.4%3.23M5.80
May 30, 202518.6M−204.8K−1.1%3.80M4.90
May 15, 202518.8M+1.78M+10.4%3.28M5.73
Apr 30, 202517.1M+2.62M+18.1%3.39M5.03
Apr 15, 202514.4M+1.47M+11.3%4.93M2.93
Mar 31, 202513.0M+222.7K+1.8%2.14M6.07
Mar 14, 202512.8M+738.7K+6.2%3.16M4.04
Feb 28, 202512.0M+767.1K+6.8%2.56M4.69
Feb 14, 202511.2M−1.91M−14.6%3.10M3.62
Jan 31, 202513.2M+9.01K+0.1%2.27M5.80
Jan 15, 202513.2M−67.8K−0.5%2.08M6.32
Dec 31, 202413.2M+24.5K+0.2%1.86M7.09
Dec 13, 202413.2M+478.9K+3.8%1.84M7.19
Nov 29, 202412.7M+376.9K+3.1%1.69M7.53
Nov 15, 202412.3M−1.30M−9.5%2.81M4.39
Oct 31, 202413.6M−83.8K−0.6%2.03M6.73

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in ALB by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 9, 202638,857$102.10$3.97M
Oct 5, 202682$104.59$8.58K
Oct 1, 20262,164$105.78$228.9K
Sep 28, 20261,000$109.73$109.7K
Sep 23, 202629,339$116.80$3.43M
Sep 22, 202699$112.92$11.2K
Sep 21, 20267,162$110.91$794.3K
Sep 18, 20262,402$115.05$276.4K
Sep 11, 2026359$122.11$43.8K
Sep 8, 202635$126.28$4.42K
Sep 3, 20261,248$137.75$171.9K
Sep 2, 202612,247$135.54$1.66M
Aug 31, 202631,015$137.36$4.26M
Aug 28, 20261$135.77$135.77
Aug 24, 20263,502$143.25$501.7K
Aug 17, 20262,065$136.15$281.1K
Aug 14, 2026314$130.48$41.0K
Aug 13, 202628$128.34$3.59K
Aug 12, 2026118,166$129.36$15.3M
Aug 10, 20261,511$131.11$198.1K
Jul 31, 20263,522$117.76$414.8K
Jul 16, 20261,582$124.74$197.3K
Jul 14, 20261,031$125.79$129.7K
Jul 6, 2026400$135.56$54.2K
Jul 2, 2026548$136.08$74.6K
Jul 1, 20261,169$135.03$157.9K
Jun 29, 20262,814$133.70$376.2K
Jun 26, 20262,156$141.05$304.1K
Jun 24, 2026266$149.98$39.9K
Jun 22, 2026100$160.35$16.0K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in ALB by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 12, 2026521,917215733,74971.1%
Nov 11, 2026342,401177595,60757.5%
Nov 10, 2026527,0643,706855,16261.6%
Nov 9, 2026684,2522,1931,154,46359.3%
Nov 6, 2026513,2913,509877,94658.5%
Nov 5, 20261,086,1192222,042,05753.2%
Nov 4, 20261,070,548921,744,26461.4%
Nov 3, 2026311,996192562,13655.5%
Nov 2, 2026429,7933,283669,28364.2%
Oct 30, 2026429,1230778,62555.1%
Oct 29, 2026474,17673880,22753.9%
Oct 28, 2026590,4050990,48359.6%
Oct 27, 2026433,6301,017875,40049.5%
Oct 26, 2026500,40427935,87053.5%
Oct 23, 2026412,93534,678661,96662.4%
Oct 22, 2026454,915390837,65254.3%
Oct 21, 2026688,3351,0861,107,30962.2%
Oct 20, 2026425,071135754,15856.4%
Oct 19, 2026380,996124707,71553.8%
Oct 16, 2026550,89728,378818,56667.3%
Oct 15, 2026835,44981,115,67674.9%
Oct 14, 2026825,30901,284,61264.2%
Oct 13, 2026797,44501,166,68768.4%
Oct 12, 2026700,7432,5061,185,20959.1%
Oct 9, 2026534,1491,8601,076,59549.6%
Oct 8, 2026468,8917,3201,146,39840.9%
Oct 7, 2026438,943221739,98259.3%
Oct 6, 2026288,11635484,91159.4%
Oct 5, 2026416,593421676,19461.6%
Oct 2, 2026433,784664839,45051.7%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in ALB
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T12,726,34369,1491,825,77532,95059.9%
Oct 12, 2026T13,564,78279,1612,631,71035,04757.5%
Oct 5, 2026T13,151,66666,1651,327,20129,62070.4%
Sep 28, 2026T12,684,13265,6871,759,09230,87760.4%
Sep 21, 2026T12,667,93562,3593,137,92930,97746.0%
Sep 14, 2026T13,004,58670,4182,900,18733,96050.9%
Sep 7, 2026T12,438,32558,6713,239,75526,54442.9%
Aug 31, 2026T13,089,50468,0521,609,93430,12465.7%
Aug 24, 2026T12,251,34159,0211,444,44228,69160.9%
Aug 17, 2026T12,679,82068,0901,794,57629,25759.9%
Aug 10, 2026T12,493,77069,8201,653,53129,36460.1%
Aug 3, 2026T13,690,43684,9512,206,28836,48162.6%