Century Aluminum Co. (CENX) last month volatility was 5.46%: Don’t Ignore this Blaring Warning Signal

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Century Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ: CENX) started the day on Wednesday, with a price decrease of -1.65% at $16.74, before settling in for the price of $17.02 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CENX posted a 52-week range of $5.70-$17.58.

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The company of the Basic Materials sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded 5.29%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 9.20%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -44.44%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $92.69 million, simultaneously with a float of $51.10 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1.55 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $12.16, while the 200-day Moving Average is $9.31.

Century Aluminum Co. (CENX) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Aluminum Industry. Century Aluminum Co.’s current insider ownership accounts for 44.70%, in contrast to 65.11% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 04 ’24, this organization’s SVP, Strategy & Business Dev’t sold 3,766 shares at the rate of 10.61, making the entire transaction reach 39,957 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 59,248. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 28 ’23, Company’s SVP, Finance and Treasurer sold 13,908 for 12.32, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 171,347. This particular insider is now the holder of 41,998 in total.

Century Aluminum Co. (CENX) Earnings and Revenue Records

Century Aluminum Co.’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -44.44% and is forecasted to reach 1.05 in the upcoming year.

Century Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ: CENX) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Century Aluminum Co. (CENX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.38. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.78. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.71. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 145.92.

In the same vein, CENX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -0.52, a figure that is expected to reach -0.12 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 1.05 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Century Aluminum Co. (CENX)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Century Aluminum Co. (NASDAQ: CENX), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.53 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 1.45 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 83.35% While, its Average True Range was 0.83.

Raw Stochastic average of Century Aluminum Co. (CENX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 91.85%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 83.47% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 40.96% that was lower than 62.37% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.