During the last session, Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX)’s traded shares were 1.78 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 2.61. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $19.00, reflecting an intraday gain of 2.15% or $0.4. The 52-week high for the CENX share is $25.39, that puts it down -33.63 from that peak though still a striking 40.0% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $11.40. The company’s market capitalization is $1.75B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 1.51 million shares, and the average trade volume was 1.68 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 2.15% upside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 2.15% in intraday trading to $19.00, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -3.70%, and it has moved by -5.85% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 43.72%. The short interest in Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) is 4.64 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.07 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $18, which implies a decrease of -5.56% 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 5.26% off the target high and 5.26% off the low.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) estimates and forecasts
In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 5.62% 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 577.1M as predicted by 3 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 2 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 614.65M 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 17.90% and then jump by 9.60% in the coming quarter.
While earnings are projected to return 186.79% 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 on 2025-Feb-19. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 1.84%.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX)’s Major holders
Century Aluminum Co insiders own 44.61% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 58.71%, with the float percentage being 106.00%. BLACKROCK INC. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 311.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 9.8 million shares (or 10.5703% of all shares), a total value of $164.13 million in shares.
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 Small-Cap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Feb 28, 2025 indicates that iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF owns about 3.33 shares. This amounts to just over 3.61 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $63.24 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.59, or about 1.72% of the stock, which is worth about $30.25 million.
