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Century Aluminum Company (CENX) is a publicly traded aluminum business based in the US which employs around 2,950 staff. Century Aluminum Company is listed on the NASDAQ and traded in US dollars.
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $30.94
| 1 week (2025-11-25) | 7.62% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-11-03) | 8.56% |
| 3 months (2025-09-03) | 40.44% |
| 6 months (2025-06-03) | 56.82% |
| 1 year (2024-12-03) | 30.22% |
| 2 years (2023-12-03) | 275.49% |
| 3 years (2022-12-01) | 226.72% |
| 5 years (2020-12-03) | 156.98% |
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Is Century Aluminum Company under- or over-valued?
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Century Aluminum Company P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.
Century Aluminum Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 35x. In other words, Century Aluminum Company's shares trade at around 35x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of March 2025 (25.37). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Century Aluminum Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $253 million (£191.3 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of Century Aluminum Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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