Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) shares, rose in value on Thursday, March 27, with the stock price up by 0.79% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $19.15.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $19.00, falling within a range of $18.286 and $19.39. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.675 whereas the PE ratio was 5.95 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $25.39, and the low was $11.40. On the whole, CENX has fluctuated by -1.24% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Century Aluminum Co currently standing at about $1.77 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-19.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 2.35B, with a low estimate of 527M and a high estimate of 642.3M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 577.1M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CENX’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.10, with the price of CENX currently trading nearly 0.93% and -0.68% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 49.57, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.43% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 6.38%. Furthermore, Century Aluminum Co (CENX)’s beta value is 2.58, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.20.
A comparison of Century Aluminum Co (CENX) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CENX showed an intraday change of 0.79% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 37.97%%.
Data on historical trading for Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.45 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.69 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 93.29 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 44.93% of Century Aluminum Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 57.86% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 4.64 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.07. According to the data, the short interest in Century Aluminum Co (CENX) stood at 1116.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 4.81 million. The stock has risen by 5.10% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CENX stock heading into the next quarter.
