Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) on Friday, soared 0.55% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $18.18. Within the past 52 weeks, CENX’s price has moved between $9.65 and $25.39.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Basic Materials sector was 7.36%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 420.20%. With a float of $51.11 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $92.80 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 2939 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 7.52%, operating margin of 4.92%, and the pretax margin is 15.02%.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Aluminum industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Century Aluminum Co is 44.93%, while institutional ownership is 60.45%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 27 ’24, was worth 924,000. In this transaction President and CEO of this company sold 50,000 shares at a rate of $18.48, taking the stock ownership to the 753 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 26 ’24, when Company’s President and CEO sold 29,243 for $18.97, making the entire transaction worth $554,740. This insider now owns 50,753 shares in total.
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.57 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 420.20% per share during the next fiscal year.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Trading Performance Indicators
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.56 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.81.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.07, a number that is poised to hit 0.56 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.29 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Century Aluminum Co (CENX)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.37 million, its volume of 2.23 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 36.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.14.
During the past 100 days, Century Aluminum Co’s (CENX) raw stochastic average was set at 48.33%, which indicates a significant increase from 38.15% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 80.68% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 61.18% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $20.39, while its 200-day Moving Average is $17.49. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $18.70 in the near term. At $19.12, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $19.49. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $17.91, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.54. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $17.12.
Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 1.70 billion based on 92,799K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 2,185 M and income totals -43,100 K. The company made 539,100 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 47,300 K in sales during its previous quarter.
