KALU Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Kaiser Aluminum | NASDAQ:KALU)

Kaiser Aluminum Corp specializes in the production of semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products, such as aluminum plate and sheet, bare and coated coil and extruded and drawn products, for the end market applications: Aero/HS Products; Packaging; GE Products; and Automotive Extrusions. Its products include fabricated aluminum mill products such as flat-rolled (plate, sheet, and coil), extruded (rod, bar, hollows, and shapes), drawn (rod, bar, pipe, tube and wire) and certain cast aluminum products. Geographically, the company generates majority of its revenue from the United States.

Kaiser Aluminum trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol KALU.

As of August 7, 2026, KALU stock price climbed to $184.75 with 342,251 million shares trading.

KALU has a beta of 1.20, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. KALU has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KALU has a market cap of $3.02 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Kaiser Aluminum reported $1 billion in Revenue and $5.53 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $125 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $3.50.

In the last 3 years, KALU traded as high as $195.96 and as low as $46.81.

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

KALU has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +155.2% while the SPY ETF gained +23.5%. However, in the short term, KALU had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +5.3% vs +6.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, KALU shares have fared better than the market returning +13.2% compared to SPY +4.6%.

KALU support price is $164.45 and resistance is $177.52 (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 KALU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.