CET Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Central Securities | AMEX:CET)

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 3, 2025, CET stock price declined to $43.57 with 55,381 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 0.76 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CET has a market cap of $1.26 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, CET traded as high as $49.51 and as low as $33.01.

CET has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +10.6% while the SPY ETF gained +4.8%. CET has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -3.9% and -4.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned -7.9% and -5.1%, respectively.

CET support price is $44.53 and resistance is $45.57 (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.