Century Aluminum Company (CENX)

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Century Aluminum Company's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2026-03-03); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2026-03-03) (its current reports).

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Century Aluminum Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.3 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 21% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 3 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Century Aluminum Company's diluted share count grew about 1.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (2 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Century Aluminum Company earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 11 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Century Aluminum Company's standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 37% by size; a net margin of 1.7% ranks in the bottom 46%; revenue growth of -3.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

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Century Aluminum Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Gary, Jesse E (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-07-02, 5.4 years (bottom 48% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 36%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 30%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Century Aluminum Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $134 million against debt of $548 million leaves -18.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 3.4% of revenue (bottom 43%); a gross margin of 10.1% (bottom 11%) (its annual report).

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Century Aluminum Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.1% a year over the last three filed years against 7.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 16% of its family); the newest year grew 13.9% (top 27%); capital spending grew 5.1% a year (bottom 48%) (its annual reports). Century Aluminum Company reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Aluminum at $2.2 billion (89%), Alumina at $284 million (11%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Century Aluminum Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 27.3% above the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 17% of its family); net income of $42 million against a prior three-year average of $93 million (bottom 43%); a net margin of 1.7% against 4.2% before (bottom 33%) (its annual reports).