shares of albemarle corp alb dropped 032 to 23909 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 067 to 443926 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 093 to 3426142 albemarle corp closed 9546 below its 52week high 33455 which the company achieved on november 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as avantor inc avtr fell 024 to 2063 trading volume 15 m remained 575424 below its 50day average volume of 21 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use