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Chairman & CEO | Chairman, President & CEO | Director
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J Kent Masters is Chairman & CEO at ALB. J Kent Masters's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $7.9M at current prices.
Our model assigns J Kent Masters a middling insider score of 56/100, based on 5 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 33.3% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of -5.5%.
The ALB filings lean toward selling, a net 19,990 shares.
J Kent Masters has 26 Form 4 filings on record from March 2015 to May 2026, all as Chairman & CEO at Albemarle (ALB), 2015–2026.
The 46 reported transactions were 10 stock awards, 10 tax withholdings, 10 option or other derivative awards and 7 open-market sales, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 2 purchases worth about $2.0M and 3 sales worth about $5.3M.
The largest open-market purchase was 5,241 shares of ALB at an average $190.80 on February 18, 2022, about $1.0M. Twelve months later ALB was up 36%.
The largest open-market sale was 16,393 shares of ALB at an average $183.72 on May 15, 2026, about $3.0M.
None of the 3 sales since April 2023 was marked as made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| May 15, 2026 | ALB Albemarle Corporation | Chairman & CEO | Sell | 16,393 | $183.72 | $3,011,766.41 | -15.8% | -27.7% | - | |
| Mar 10, 2026 | ALB Albemarle Corporation | Chairman & CEO | Sell | 11,783 | $170.81 | $2,012,687.98 | -8.0% | -10.0% | - | |
| Dec 5, 2024 | ALB Albemarle Corp | Chairman & CEO | Sell | 2,525 | $101.12 | $255,328.00 | -3.3% | -26.6% | +23.8% | |
| May 5, 2023 | ALB Albemarle Corp | Chairman & CEO | Buy | 5,470 | $181.64 | $993,570.80 | +11.9% | +10.9% | -28.7% | |
| Feb 18, 2022 | ALB Albemarle Corp | Chairman, President & CEO | Buy | 5,241 | $190.80 | $999,982.80 | +49.3% | +25.6% | +36.1% |