Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) shares traded 4.99% up during most recent session to reach at the closing price of $14.74. The stock exchanged hands 2.8 Million shares versus average trading capacity of 2.07 Million shares, yielding a market cap of $1.33 Billion. Wall Street analysts covering the stock are projecting that the stock will reach $14.13 within the next 52-weeks. The mean target projections are based on 4 opinions.
Taking a broader look brokerage firms’ analysts on the street with an expectant view have Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) high price target of $16.5 and with a conservative view have low price target of $10.
Deutsche Bank “Downgrades” Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) in a research note issued to investors on 2/28/17 to Sell with price target of $0.
Additionally on 1/19/17 Standpoint Research “Downgrades” Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) to Hold setting price target at $0 and on 10/28/16 JP Morgan “Upgrades” the stock to Neutral. Furthermore on 2/23/16 BMO Capital “Downgrades” the stock to Market Perform.
On the other hand the company has Relative Strength Index (RSI 14) of 59.29 along with Average True Range (ATR 14) of 0.72, Consequently Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX)’s weekly and monthly volatility is 5.73%, 4.65% respectively. The company’s beta value is at 0.61.
In terms of Buy, Sell or Hold recommendations, Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) has analysts’ mean recommendation of 3.3. This is according to a simplified 1 to 5 scale where 1 represents a Strong Buy and 5 a Strong Sell.
According to analysts Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX)’s minimum EPS for the current quarter is at $0.15 and can go high up to $0.28. The consensus mean EPS for the current quarter is at $0.22 derived from a total of 3 estimates from the analysts who have weighed in on projected earnings. However the company reported $-0.05 earnings per share for the same quarter during last year.
Previously Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) reported $-0.05 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $-0.21 by $0.16. The company posted an earnings surprise of 76.2%.
While considering growth estimates of the company, it has next quarter growth estimates of 174.2% whereas during current quarter it has 540% estimations over growth, comparing to the estimations of 205.6% during current year and -6.7% for next year. Past 5 years growth of Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) observed at 12.25%, looking forward for the next 5 years it has a strong prediction of -20.33% over growth.
Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX)’s revenue estimates for the current quarter are $397.27 Million according to 3 number of analysts, for the current quarter the company has high revenue estimates of $407 Million in contradiction of low revenue estimates of $390.8 Million. For the current year the company’s revenue estimates are $1.54 Billion compared to low analyst estimates of $1.49 Billion and high estimates of $1.6 Billion according to 3 number of analysts.
Currently Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX)’s shares owned by insiders are 0.7%, whereas shares owned by institutional owners are 70.1%. However the six-month change in the insider ownership was recorded -5.18%, as well as three-month change in the institutional ownership was recorded 1.25%.
Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX) 52-week high price stands at $16.53 and low price stands at $5.53, its price distance from 52-week high is -10.83% while its distance from 52-week low price is 166.55%. The stock hit its 52-week high on 02/07/17, and 52-week low on 09/14/16.
Century Aluminum C (NASDAQ:CENX)’s trailing twelve month revenues are $1.37 Billion, whereas its price to sales ratio for the same period is 0.98. Its book value per share for the most recent quarter is $8.51 while its price to book ratio for the same period is 1.73, as for as the company’s cash per share for the most recent quarter is $1.39, however its price to cash per share ratio for the same period is 10.59. The stock has 5 year expected PEG ratio of 0 whereas its trailing twelve month P/E ratio is 0.
