Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price down by -4.16% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $17.26.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $18.01, falling within a range of $17.2 and $18.17. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 2.544 whereas the PE ratio was 15.22 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 6.02% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Century Aluminum Co currently standing at about $1.61 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-07.
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 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 0.48, with the price of CENX currently trading nearly -3.83% and 2.10% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 44.80, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.95% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.07%. Furthermore, Century Aluminum Co (CENX)’s beta value is 2.54, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.95.
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 -4.16% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 13.25%%.
Data on historical trading for Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.34 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.69 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 93.30 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 44.94% of Century Aluminum Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 56.72% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.21 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 4.08. According to the data, the short interest in Century Aluminum Co (CENX) stood at 1176.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 5.18 million. The stock has fallen by -5.27% 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.
