US-based Albemarle will be named to the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. The Index measures the performance of S&P 500 companies that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 consecutive years.
On February 26, 2019, the company declared a dividend increase of 10% and paid the fourth quarter of that dividend on January 2, 2020, marking 25 sequential years of dividend growth.