Oppenheimer rated Underperform Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) on 08/16/2011. Previously Oppenheimer rated Perform Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) on 08/06/2009., when the stock price was $31.90. Since then, Albemarle Corporation has gained 81.47% as of 08/16/2011's recent price of $57.89.

Albemarle Corporation is a major producer of fine and performance chemicals including polymer intermediates, cleaning product intermediates and additives, agricultural chemical intermediates, pharmaceutical intermediates, catalysts, brominated flame retardants, bromine chemicals and potassium and chlorine chemicals.

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