CENX Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Century Aluminum Company | NASDAQ:CENX)

Century Aluminum Co produces primary aluminum standard grade and value-added products. The firm operates smelter facilities in the United States and Iceland. The majority of revenue is generated from Glencore, which agreed to purchase nearly all of Century Aluminum's North American production. The company produces high purity aluminum, standard-grade aluminum sow and tee bars, and value-added billet and foundry products. The company also owns a carbon anode production facility in the Netherlands.

Century Aluminum Company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CENX.

As of August 19, 2026, CENX stock price declined to $43.58 with 5,634,046 million shares trading.

CENX has a beta of 1.73, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CENX has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CENX has a market cap of $4.31 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Century Aluminum Company reported $752 million in Revenue and $2.46 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-81 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.12.

In the last 3 years, CENX traded as high as $70.43 and as low as $5.70.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CENX belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, XME, VTI, IWM, VB.

CENX has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +95.3%, while the SPY ETF gained +20.7%. However, in the most recent history, CENX shares have underperformed the stock market with its stock returning -20.6% in the last 3 month period and -7.5% for the last 2 week period, while SPY has returned +4.4% and -0.3%, respectively.

CENX support price is $43.86 and resistance is $47.46 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CENX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.