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Century Aluminum Company

CENX Basic Materials Aluminum

Century Aluminum Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.5 billion, up 13.9% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+19.7%
EPS
+5,140.0%
Free cash flow
+779.3%
Total debt
+4.05%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

30.22 2.58 −7.87%
Market cap
$3.0B
P/E
5.0×
Fwd P/E
2.9×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
2.26
Beneish M
−2.65
Dividend safety
n/a
Overview
Financials
Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Sold, $m 353.05
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — 1 3 7 — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 31.02%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 2,980.00
Revenue ttm 2,667.20
Net income ttm 575.90
Free cash flow ttm 351.20
Net debt Q 118.90
Valuation
P/E 4.95
Forward P/E 2.91
Price / sales 1.12
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 8.52
Price / book 1.95
Financial health
Current ratio Q 2.75 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.33 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q 20.95
Growth
Revenue growth Q +19.74% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +1,069.06% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +311.04% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next year A +6.01%
Revenue, next year A +31.69% (at or above 10%: strong)
EPS, past 5 yrs —
EPS, next 5 yrs A +66.45% (at or above 15%: strong)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 1.2×, against a ten-year median of 0.8×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.3× in 2016 to 2.7× in 2026.
P/E against its own 10 years 5.04%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 88.34%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 51.56%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 85.08%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 0.11%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
—
Annual rate
—
Payout ratio
—

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 90 36 136 390
Receivables 169 204 350 391
Inventory 477 539 520 583
Other 3 4 2 7
767 811 1,031 1,402
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 250 187 187 217
ST’ Debt 48 71 97 29
Other 103 114 129 144
763 467 524 509

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 2.63% 9.51% (3.09%)
Cash Flow 19.23% 33.95% 92.59%
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value (0.81%) 11.23% 32.55%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

Q2 FY26 Estimate 2.40 Actual 2.39

Earnings per share against the consensus, by quarter
Quarter Estimate Reported Result
Q3 FY25 0.79 0.15 Miss by 0.64
Q4 FY25 1.25 0.02 Miss by 1.23
Q1 FY26 1.16 1.06 Miss by 0.10
Q2 FY26 2.40 2.39 Miss by 0.01
Q3 FY26 2.61 — Reports 5 November 2026

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 3.23 2.39 — — —
’25 0.28 (0.05) 0.15 0.02 0.42
’24 2.26 (0.03) 0.46 0.47 3.29
’23 (0.42) 0.07 (0.45) 0.30 (0.47)
’22 0.18 0.36 0.43 (1.24) (0.15)
’21 (1.55) (0.39) (0.58) 0.59 (1.85)
’20 (0.03) (0.30) (0.65) (0.40) (1.38)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 649 752 — — —
’25 634 628 632 634 2,528
’24 490 561 539 631 2,220
’23 552 576 545 512 2,185
’22 754 857 637 530 2,777
’21 444 528 581 659 2,213
’20 421 402 393 389 1,605
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 68 168 — — —
’25 72 8 2 103 185
’24 (15) 12 20 (41) (25)
’23 0 (2) 42 66 106
’22 37 31 (11) (31) 26
’21 (50) (38) 76 (53) (65)
’20 35 37 (38) 10 43
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 194 108 — — —
’25 51 (16) (18) 68 85
’24 (44) (3) (2) (55) (105)
’23 (14) (24) 41 34 36
’22 11 6 (30) (47) (60)
’21 (57) (57) 56 (89) (147)
’20 29 33 (40) 9 31
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.4
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Jun ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 1,319 1,589 1,893 1,837 1,605 2,213 2,777 2,185 2,220 2,528 2,667 +7.5% 3,329 4,136 3,997 +16.5%
Gross margin, % (0.46) 8.26 (1.21) (1.30) (2.27) 5.61 1.68 4.01 7.75 10.14 19.20 +10.6 pt
EBT (251) 55 (71) (85) (126) (198) 33 (71) 310 3 577 n/m
EBT margin, % (19.02) 3.49 (3.73) (4.66) (7.87) (8.93) 1.20 (3.25) 13.95 0.11 21.65 +19.1 pt
Net income (252) 49 (66) (81) (123) (167) (14) (57) 307 16 576 n/m
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 15.14 18.06 21.61 20.68 17.93 24.53 30.39 23.65 23.93 26.84 26.94 +6.6%
Earnings (2.90) 0.51 (0.76) (0.91) (1.38) (1.85) (0.15) (0.47) 3.46 0.42 6.10 n/m
Cash flow 0.44 0.59 (0.79) 0.20 0.48 (0.72) 0.28 1.14 (0.27) 1.96 3.44 +18.1%
Capex (0.24) (0.20) (0.95) (0.67) (0.13) (0.92) (0.94) (0.75) (0.86) (1.06) 0.11 +18.0%
Free cash flow 0.20 0.39 (1.74) (0.47) 0.35 (1.63) (0.65) 0.39 (1.13) 0.90 3.55 +18.3%
Book value 8.69 9.43 8.70 7.60 6.10 4.67 4.37 3.72 8.68 9.87 15.50 +1.4%
Shares, m 87 88 88 89 90 90 91 92 93 94 96 +0.9%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 41.92 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.27 93.29 4.95 14.0
P/S 0.57 1.18 0.34 0.36 0.62 0.68 0.27 0.50 0.76 1.46 1.12 0.7
P/B 0.99 2.27 0.84 0.99 1.81 3.55 1.87 3.20 2.10 3.97 1.95 2.2
EV/Sales 0.65 1.23 0.46 0.50 0.75 0.86 0.44 0.68 0.98 1.63 1.17 0.8
EV/FCF 49.70 57.53 (5.74) (21.99) 38.94 (12.87) (20.42) 41.06 (20.87) 48.73 8.86 15.4
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 38 52 (69) 18 43 (65) 26 106 (25) 185 341 +19.2%
Capex (21) (17) (83) (60) (12) (83) (85) (69) (80) (100) 10 +19.0%
Free cash flow 17 34 (152) (42) 31 (147) (60) 36 (105) 85 351 +19.3%
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 261 363 282 254 216 71 267 4 344 508 892 +7.7%
Net debt 122 88 240 254 224 403 472 389 493 441 119 +15.3%
Shareholders’ equity 757 830 762 675 546 421 399 344 805 930 1,535 +2.3%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (15.33) 3.11 (4.24) (5.32) (8.51) (11.25) (0.93) (2.60) 16.08 1.82 25.01 +17.2 pt
ROIC (16.21) 6.62 (3.68) (4.85) (6.53) 5.01 (10.77) 2.34 5.22 7.21 25.81 +23.4 pt
ROE (28.59) 6.13 (8.32) (11.24) (20.19) (34.56) (3.44) (11.60) 55.48 4.61 54.37 +33.2 pt
People
People Employees 1,741 1,864 2,069 2,079 2,078 2,512 1,956 2,939 2,971 2,906 — +5.9%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.76 0.85 0.92 0.88 0.77 0.88 1.42 0.74 0.75 0.87 — +1.5%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

All 10 years →

Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026 · fundamentals updated 26 Oct 2026

Century Aluminum Company vs peers in the Basic Materials sector (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
ASH Ashland Inc. $3.5B 67.1× 39.4× +4.40% (above 0%: growing) n/m +400.00% (above 0%: growing) 35.94% 5.82% Compare
KNF Knife River Corporation $3.3B 24.3× 22.6× +5.97% (above 0%: growing) −3.99% (below 0%: shrinking) −27.51% (below 0%: shrinking) 22.55% 16.79% Compare
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. $3.2B 36.6× 36.3× +11.90% (above 0%: growing) +23.06% (above 0%: growing) +1.32% (above 0%: growing) 24.41% 13.35% Compare
ARIS Aris Mining Corporation $3.2B 11.1× — +62.31% (above 0%: growing) n/m −140.02% (below 0%: shrinking) 58.58% 48.02% Compare
WDFC WD-40 Company $3.0B 37.0× 32.3× +8.14% (above 0%: growing) −31.85% (below 0%: shrinking) +63.49% (above 0%: growing) 52.78% 10.78% Compare
CENX Century Aluminum Company $3.0B 5.0× 2.9× +19.74% (above 0%: growing) n/m +779.25% (above 0%: growing) 30.30% 28.13%
ERO Ero Copper Corp. $2.9B 10.1× 6.5× +110.39% (above 0%: growing) +35.06% (above 0%: growing) +441.33% (above 0%: growing) 40.25% 35.04% Compare
CSTM Constellium SE $2.8B 5.0× 5.6× +21.84% (above 0%: growing) +40.05% (above 0%: growing) +420.83% (above 0%: growing) 13.91% 7.09% Compare
USAR USA Rare Earth Inc. $2.8B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) — n/m −1,034.95% (below 0%: shrinking) (27.19%) (795.64%) Compare
Median of peers $3.1B 24.3× 27.5× +11.90% +23.06% +32.41% 30.18% 12.07%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 24 April 2026

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together less than 1%
Glencore AG(b) 30.00%
BlackRock, Inc.(c) 8.60%
Ownership is the proxy’s own table: the directors and officers as a group, and every holder of 5% or more. Read the proxy statement

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