Century Aluminum Company (CENX)
Materials · NMS
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 16:57 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Century Aluminum Company trades at $36.05, which is 173% below the $98.56 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 47 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 12.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
CENX dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | $0.150 | 3 |
| 2001 | $0.150 | 3 |
| 2000 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 1999 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 1998 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 1997 | $0.200 | 4 |
| 1996 | $0.100 | 2 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
CENX earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 3 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Century Aluminum Company
Century Aluminum Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces primary aluminum and alumina in the United States and Iceland. The company engages in the production of standard-grade and value-added primary aluminum products. It also owns and operates a carbon anode production facility in Vlissingen, the Netherlands; and operates aluminum reduction facilities or smelters; and bauxite mining and alumina refining in Jamaica. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
CENX passes 3 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
11 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$70.60M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$51.36M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$36.61M · 0.0% of book
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, LP$21.81M · 0.1% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$16.67M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
CENX peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Aluminum), then in the same sector.
- AA Alcoa Corporation
- CSTM Constellium SE
- KALU Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
- LIN Linde plc
- BHP BHP Group Limited
- BHP.L BHP Group
- BHP.AX BHP Group
- BHG.JO BHP Group
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Common questions
Is Century Aluminum Company (CENX) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $98.56, CENX at $36.05 is 173% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own CENX?
11 of the institutions we track reported a position in CENX in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is CENX's P/E ratio?
CENX trades at 12.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its CENX data?
Fundamentals for CENX come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 16:57 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.