Century Aluminum Co (CENX) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $15.51, with 4.04 million shares of worth about $62.66 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -11.57% during that period and on May 08, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.96%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 93.30M shares, out of which, 51.36M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -7.68% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 13.21%. Year-to-date (YTD), CENX shares are showing a performance of -14.87% which decreased to -10.86% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $11.40 but also hit the highest price of $25.39 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Century Aluminum Co shares is 1.91 million. The stock is currently trading -4.19% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -11.25% for SMA50 and it goes to -12.37% lower than SMA200.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) currently have 93.30M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 57.45% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $1.45B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 2.64. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 13.61, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.14 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.29 and has Quick Ratio of 0.63 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.66. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CENX, volatility over the week remained 5.45% while standing at 6.26% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 133.63% while it is estimated to decrease by -3.81% in next year.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by BMO Capital Markets on February 24, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $22 to it. Coverage by Wolfe Research stated Century Aluminum Co (CENX) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on December 03, 2024, suggesting a price target of $27 for the stock. Stock get an Underperform rating from Wolfe Research on July 11, 2023.
