After Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Surges 0.39% From Highs, What Will It Look Like?

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During the last session, Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX)’s traded shares were 2.31 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.61. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $18.07, reflecting an intraday loss of -4.69% or -$0.89. The 52-week high for the CENX share is $25.39, that puts it down -40.51 from that peak though still a striking 42.45% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $10.40. The company’s market capitalization is $1.67B, and the average trade volume was 1.50 million shares over the past three months.

Century Aluminum Co (CENX) received a consensus recommendation of Hold from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.00. CENX has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 1 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 0 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.56.

Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) trade information

Century Aluminum Co (CENX) registered a -4.69% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -4.69% in intraday trading to $18.07, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -6.71%, and it has moved by -2.17% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 71.60%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $18, which implies a decrease of -0.39% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $18 and $18 respectively. As a result, CENX is trading at a premium of 0.39% off the target high and 0.39% off the low.

Century Aluminum Co (CENX) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 8.98% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 602.15M as predicted by 2 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 1 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 666.3M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 489.5M and 560.8M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to grow by 23.01% and then jump by 18.81% in the coming quarter.

While earnings are projected to return 162.76% in 2025, the next five years will return 60.86% per annum.

CENX Dividends

Century Aluminum Co is due to release its next quarterly earnings in April. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.

The next largest institutional holding, with 5.83 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 6.2892% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $97.65 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Century Aluminum Co (CENX) shares are iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Global X Fds-Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF owns about 3.35 shares. This amounts to just over 3.63 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $60.62 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.93, or about 2.09% of the stock, which is worth about $34.87 million.