Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) is 10.37% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $11.40 and a high of $25.39 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The CENX stock was last observed hovering at around $19.73 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.38%.
Currently trading at $20.11, the stock is 6.02% and 4.01% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.21 million and changing 1.93% at the moment leaves the stock 13.17% off its SMA200. CENX registered 63.90% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 38.21%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $19.3348 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $17.77045.
The stock witnessed a -3.50% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -1.47%, and is 3.66% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.89% over the week and 7.70% over the month.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) has around 2971 employees, a market worth around $1.86B and $2.22B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 6.18 and Fwd P/E is 6.49. Profit margin for the company is 14.46%. Distance from 52-week low is 76.34% and -20.80% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (27.44%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 162.76% this year
311.0 institutions hold shares in Century Aluminum Co (CENX), with institutional investors hold 106.00% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 93.29M, and float is at 50.82M with Short Float at 10.05%. Institutions hold 58.71% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 9.8 million shares valued at $164.13 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.5703 of the CENX Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.83 million shares valued at $97.65 million to account for 6.2892 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 3.67 million shares representing 3.9537 and valued at over $61.39 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 3.1797 of the shares totaling 2.95 million with a market value of $49.37 million.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Hoffman Robert F, the company’s SVP, IT and CAO. SEC filings show that Hoffman Robert F sold 2,500 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 14 ’25 at a price of $19.99 per share for a total of $49975.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 64083.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Dec 27 ’24, Gary Jesse E (President and CEO) disposed off 50,000 shares at an average price of $18.48 for $0.92 million. The insider now directly holds 753 shares of Century Aluminum Co (CENX).
