Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “ALB.” There were 117,847,220 shares of common stock held by 1,806 shareholders of record as of February 4, 2026. On each of February 27, 2025, May 6, 2025, July 22, 2025 and October 27, 2025, we declared a dividend of $0.405 per share. On each of February 22, 2024 and May 7, 2024, we declared a dividend of $0.40 per share and on each of July 16, 2024 and October 28, 2024, we declared a dividend of $0.405 per share. In each quarter of 2023, we declared a dividend of $0.40 per share. We expect to continue to declare and pay comparable dividends to our shareholders in the future, however, dividends are declared solely at the discretion of our Board of Directors and there is no guarantee that the Board of Directors will continue to declare dividends in the future.

Stock Performance Graph

The graph below shows the cumulative total shareholder return assuming the investment of $100 in our common stock on December 31, 2020 and the reinvestment of all dividends thereafter. The information contained in the graph below is furnished

and therefore not to be considered “filed” with the SEC, and is not incorporated by reference into any document that incorporates this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference.