Century Aluminum Company
Rank #450HypergrowthCENX · Nasdaq · Basic Materials
Century Aluminum Company (CENX) — Rank #450 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.09) · ROE 3.0% · Piotroski F-Score N/A.
As-of 2026-09-15 · CIK 0000949157 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.
About
Century Aluminum Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces primary aluminum and alumina in the United States and Iceland.
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The company engages in the production of standard-grade and value-added primary aluminum products. It also owns and operates a carbon anode production facility in Vlissingen, the Netherlands; and operates aluminum reduction facilities or smelters; and bauxite mining and alumina refining in Jamaica.
The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
- Industry
- Aluminum
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- State
- DE
- Filer Category
- Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal Year End
- December 31
- Website
- centuryaluminum.com
Financials
Stable
Direction over 5 fiscal years
- Free cash flowimproving
- Gross marginimproving
- Gross profitabilityimproving
- Net cashimproving
- Operating marginimproving
- Return on equitydeteriorating
- Share count (dilution)deteriorating
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Each fiscal year is read as-of that year’s own 10-K filing, so nothing restated after the fact leaks backwards. Line items this filer never tagged are omitted. Hover or tap a badge for the diagnostic behind it.
| Fiscal year end | 2022-12-31filed 2023-02-27 | 2021-12-31filed 2022-02-25 | 2020-12-31filed 2021-03-04 | 2019-12-31filed 2020-02-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||
| Revenue | 2,777.3 | 2,212.5 | 1,605.1 | 1,836.6 |
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 74.8% | 39.2% | 1.0% | 15.6% |
| Gross profit | 46.7 | 124.2 | (36.5) | (23.9) |
| Gross margin | 1.7% | 5.6% | -2.3% | -1.3% |
| Net income | (14.1) | (167.1) | (123.3) | (80.8) |
| Net margin | -0.5% | -7.6% | -7.7% | -4.4% |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.15 | -$1.85 | — | — |
| EPS growth (YoY) | 91.9% | — | — | — |
| Cash flow | ||||
| Operating cash flow | 25.9 | (64.7) | 42.9 | 17.7 |
| Capital expenditures | 86.3 | 83.0 | 13.4 | 59.6 |
| Free cash flow | (60.4) | (147.7) | 29.5 | (41.9) |
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