Albemarle (ALB) Research & Development (2009 - 2025)

Albemarle (ALB) has 17 years of Research & Development data on file, last reported at $12.4 million in Q2 2025.

• For the quarter ending Q2 2025, Research & Development fell 40.09% year-over-year to $12.4 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Jun 2025 stood at $69.0 million (down 21.76% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $51.4 million, down 40.73% from the prior year.
• Research & Development for Q2 2025 stood at $12.4 million, down from $14.1 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Research & Development topped out at $23.5 million in Q1 2024 and bottomed at $12.1 million in Q4 2021.
• The 5-year median for Research & Development is $19.2 million (2022), against an average of $18.1 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Research & Development soared 66.22%; it then plunged 40.09% in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Research & Development shows it stood at $12.1 million in 2021, then surged by 66.22% to $20.2 million in 2022, then grew by 12.9% to $22.8 million in 2023, then declined by 12.01% to $20.0 million in 2024, then slumped by 37.85% to $12.4 million in 2025.
• The last three Research & Development figures came in at $12.4 million (Q2 2025), $14.1 million (Q1 2025), and $20.0 million (Q4 2024), per Business Quant data.

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