CENX (Century Aluminum Co) climbed 4.25 at the last close: Is This Today’s Most Popular Stock?

On Tuesday, Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) was 4.25% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $20.94. A 52-week range for CENX has been $9.65 – $25.39.

Basic Materials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 7.36% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 420.20%. With a float of $51.08 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $92.80 million.

The firm has a total of 2939 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. 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

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Century Aluminum Co stocks. The insider ownership of Century Aluminum Co is 44.95%, while institutional ownership is 57.73%. 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. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 92.66% during the next five years compared to 9.20% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Century Aluminum Co (CENX) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.56. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.96.

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)

Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Century Aluminum Co, CENX], we can find that recorded value of 2.01 million was better than the volume posted last year of 1.51 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 67.73%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.32.

During the past 100 days, Century Aluminum Co’s (CENX) raw stochastic average was set at 66.10%, which indicates a significant decrease from 81.27% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 64.66% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 63.73% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $19.72, while its 200-day Moving Average is $17.61. Now, the first resistance to watch is $22.22. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $22.60. The third major resistance level sits at $23.34. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $21.10, it is likely to go to the next support level at $20.36. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $19.98.

Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Key Stats

There are 92,799K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 2.03 billion. As of now, sales total 2,185 M while income totals -43,100 K. Its latest quarter income was 539,100 K while its last quarter net income were 47,300 K.