Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU)
Materials · NMS
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 02:46 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation trades at $151.17. Our model's figure for Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is more than double the highest analyst price target on record. That points to a problem with the inputs rather than a bargain, so we publish no estimate until they produce one that passes this check.
Our moat model scores it 41 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. 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 12.1 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.
KALU dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $2.31 | 3 |
| 2025 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2024 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2023 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2022 | $3.08 | 4 |
| 2021 | $2.88 | 4 |
| 2020 | $2.68 | 4 |
| 2019 | $2.40 | 4 |
| 2018 | $2.20 | 4 |
| 2017 | $2.00 | 4 |
| 2016 | $2.25 | 5 |
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.
KALU earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 4 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 Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. It offers flat-rolled plate, sheet, and coil; extruded rod, bar, hollows, and shapes; drawn rod, bar, pipe, tube, and wire; and cast aluminum products. The company also offers aero/HS products, such as heat-treated plates and sheets, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rods and bars, and seamless drawn tubes and billets used for end uses in the global aerospace, space, and defense industries, as well as packaging products, including bare and coated 3000 and 5000-series alloy aluminum coils used in beverage and food packaging industry. In addition, the company provides general engineering products comprising 6000-series aluminum alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire, and standard extruded shapes used in various applications, including the production of armor for military vehicles, ordnances, semiconductor manufacturing cells, electronic devices, power transmission bus pipe and bar, after-market motor sport parts, tooling plates, machinery and equipment parts, bolts, screws, and rivets. Further, it offers automotive extrusions consisting of 6000-series extruded aluminum products for structural components, crash management systems, anti-lock braking systems, and drawn tubes for drive shafts, as well as offers fabrication services, such as sawing and cutting to length. The company sells its products directly to aerospace and automotive manufacturers, tier one aerospace and automotive suppliers, beverage and food packaging manufacturers, and metal service centers through sales personnel located in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
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.
KALU passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
12 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Ken Fisher, Fisher Asset Management, LLC$69.01M · 0.0% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$30.55M · 0.0% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$27.08M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$19.63M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$12.55M · 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.
KALU peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Aluminum), then in the same sector.
- AA Alcoa Corporation
- CENX Century Aluminum Company
- CSTM Constellium SE
- 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
Which funds own KALU?
12 of the institutions we track reported a position in KALU 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 KALU's P/E ratio?
KALU trades at 12.1 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.
Does Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU) pay a dividend?
Yes. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation yields 1.89% at the current share price. It has paid $3.08 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 19 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
When does KALU report earnings next?
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is scheduled to report on 21 Oct 2026. Companies move earnings dates, so read it as scheduled rather than certain.
Where does SteadyShares get its KALU data?
Fundamentals for KALU 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, 02:46 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, 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.