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Central’s investment objective is long-term growth of capital. The fund invests primarily in common stocks, but may invest in bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of governments, banks and corporations. Managements philosophy is based on value investing combined with a policy of remaining generally fully invested. Management employs a variety of strategies and does not use a particular formula.
Central Securities trades on the AMEX stock market under the symbol CET.
As of April 17, 2026, CET stock price climbed to $53.14 with 39,663 million shares trading.
CET has a beta of 0.74, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CET has a correlation of 0.81 to the broad based SPY ETF.
CET has a market cap of $1.57 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, CET traded as high as $53.34 and as low as $33.85.
CET has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +30.8% while the SPY ETF gained +36.5%. CET has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +2.2% and +6.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.9% and +8.3%, respectively.
CET support price is $51.64 and resistance is $53.46 (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 CET shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
