In last trading session, Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) saw 1.24 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 2.69. Company’s recent per share price level of $18.60 trading at $0.2 or 1.09% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.72B. That closing price of CENX’s stock is at a discount of -36.51% from its 52-week high price of $25.39 and is indicating a premium of 38.71% from its 52-week low price of $11.40. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.49 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.74 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Century Aluminum Co (CENX), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 1.00. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 1 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 0 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.56 in the current quarter.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 1.09%, in the last five days CENX remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 03/28/25 when the stock touched $18.60 price level, adding 5.05% to its value on the day. Century Aluminum Co’s shares saw a change of 2.09% in year-to-date performance and have moved -2.11% in past 5-day. Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) showed a performance of 1.86% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.64 million shares which calculate 2.07 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 18 to the stock, which implies a fall of -3.33% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 18 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 18. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 3.23% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 3.23% for stock’s current value.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 5.62% from the last financial year’s standing.
3 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 577.1M for the same. And 2 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 614.65M in the next quarter. Company posted 489.5M and 560.8M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 199.70% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 60.86%.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 44.61% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 58.92 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 106.37%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 58.92% institutions for Century Aluminum Co that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at CENX for having 9.8 million shares of worth $164.13 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.5703 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 5.83 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.2892 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $97.65 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Feb 28, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 3.33 shares of worth $61.91 million or 3.61% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 1.59 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $29.61 million in the company or a holder of 1.72% of company’s stock.