Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ: CENX) Recovers 35.74% From 52-Week Low, Is CENX Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

Century Aluminum Co (NASDAQ:CENX) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.80M but it saw 1386089 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.44B USD, the company’s current market price of $15.48 came falling about -2.03 while comparing to the previous closing price of $15.80. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $25.39 and as low as $11.40.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the BMO Capital Markets which upgraded the stock as “Outperform” in its note to investors issued on February 24, 2025, recommending a price target of $22 for it. Wolfe Research upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Peer Perform” on December 03, 2024 while assigning a price target of $27. B. Riley Securities also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $10 and $14.

Over the week, CENX’s stock price is moving -6.30% down while it is -8.24% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -15.04% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -18.01%.

Currently, Century Aluminum Co’s total number of outstanding shares is 93.30M with 43.96% of that held by the insiders while 58.76% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 9.80% and return on equity (ROE) at 18.03%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 13.65 while having a 6.90 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.59. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.99 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.61. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.29% on average.