Century Aluminum Company
At today's price, Century Aluminum Company (CENX) is priced for +25.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
Century Aluminum is a pure-play primary-aluminum smelter, which means the numbers have to be read as a commodity producer near a cyclical high, not a steady business. Current operating margin of 19.2% reflects aluminum prices at multi-year highs and U.S. tariff-driven regional premiums, conditions that are favorable today but inherently cyclical. At $51.76 the price pays about 11x company-wide operating income, which the model reads as growth held near the self-funding ceiling for roughly 6 yea
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370 institutional managers reported holding CENX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 97 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 8.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (4.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CENX's share count grew 9.9% over the past five years. It pays no dividend.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at CENX over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CENX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-10 | -5.9% | +10.4% |
| 2023-08-10 | -8.5% | -19.9% |
| 2023-11-09 | +1.8% | +71.0% |
| 2024-03-16 | +0.4% | +48.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CENX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-17 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-03 (items 4.02); 2026-02-19 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-02 (items 1.01, 2.01, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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