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David Wang, CFA
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Albemarle Set to Capture Long-Term Lithium Demand Growth with Top-Tier Assets; Raising FVE to $130

Narrow-moat Albemarle’s March 16 investor day gave us even higher conviction that the company can capture incremental value from accelerating lithium demand growth and electric vehicle adoption. As a result of the incremental value from even larger long-term lithium expansion projects, partly offset by weaker refining catalyst cash flows, we have raised our fair value estimate to $130 per share from $125. We continue to view the shares as undervalued, with about 25% upside from current market pr...
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Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of chemicals across a range of end markets including energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, crop protection and custom chemistry services. The company's segments include: Lithium, which develops and manufactures a range of basic lithium compounds and lithium specialties and reagents; Bromine Specialties, which includes products used in fire safety solutions and other chemicals applications; and Catalysts, which includes Clean Fuels Technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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David Wang, CFA

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