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Century Aluminum Co. CENX

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.5B
▲ 13.9% YoY
$41.8M
▼ 87.6% YoY
$84.8M
In brief

What this company does

Century Aluminum Company is a global producer of primary aluminum and operates aluminum reduction facilities, or "smelters," in the United States and Iceland. It also holds a 55% joint venture interest in the Jamalco bauxite mining operation and alumina refinery in Jamaica, with the remaining 45% interest indirectly owned by the Government of Jamaica. It also owns a carbon anode production facility in the Netherlands that supplies carbon anodes to its aluminum smelter in Grundartangi, Iceland. It produced approximately 638,000 tonnes of primary aluminum in 2025. The company operates its business on a consolidated basis through a single operating segment, which is also its single reportable segment. For the year ended December 31, 2025, it derived approximately 54.0% of its consolidated sales from Glencore plc and its affiliates. As of December 31, 2025, it had 2,906 employees, of whom 1,324 were domiciled in the United States, 857 in Jamaica, 636 in Iceland and 89 in the Netherlands. Century Aluminum Company is a Delaware corporation with its principal executive offices located at One South Wacker Drive, Suite 1000, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

Written from the business description in CENTURY ALUMINUM CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 3 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 2.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 2.5 · Net income 0.0
1B2B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−3.1%
+9.5%
+2.6%
+5.3%
−2.4%
−2.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +9.5% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
1 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 6.3% · Net 0.6%
5%10%-10%-20%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 5.6%
20%40%60%-10%-20%-30%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 6 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 84.8
80M-80M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2017 · Dividends — · Net buybacks -0.4
20M40M-40M-80M200920102011201220132014201520162017

Total assetsUSD 2.3B
EquityUSD 805.6M
CashUSD 134.2M
Current ratio1.97×

Equity funds 35% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B2.52.22.22.82.21.61.81.91.61.31.91.91.51.31.41.20.9
Operating income $B0.20.10.0−0.20.1−0.1−0.1−0.10.1−0.2−0.00.1−0.0−0.00.00.1−0.1
EBITDA $B0.20.20.1−0.10.10.00.00.00.2−0.10.00.20.00.10.10.2−0.0
Income tax $B−0.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.00.3−0.0−0.0−0.2−0.1−0.1−0.10.0−0.3−0.10.1−0.0−0.00.00.1−0.2
Free cash flow $B0.1−0.10.0−0.1−0.10.0−0.0−0.20.00.0−0.00.2−0.00.0−0.00.10.0
EPS, diluted $0.423.27−0.47−0.15−1.85−1.38−0.91−0.760.51−2.90−0.681.30−0.45−0.400.110.59−2.73
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %·················
ROE %5.664.2−11.4−3.4−34.6−20.2−11.2−8.36.1−28.6−5.612.1−4.1−3.51.05.4−19.3
Shares out B0.100.090.090.090.090.09·0.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.090.09·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPrimary Production of Aluminum
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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