CENXCentury Aluminum Company

$36.76+33% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet, but big price swings.

1 good, 1 to watch, 4 without data
SurvivalSafe zoneSEC EDGAR · Dec 31, 2025

Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.

Drawdown risk66% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -88% · now 47% below its 52-week high.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Volatilitybehind 83% of the market
Max drawdownbehind 85% of the market

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can CENX take a bad year?

The deepest fall in CENX's price history on file is −88%; it is 47% below its high today.

2.65

Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · grey zone: neither safe nor distressed on this model

Annualised volatility
66%

Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing

Worst drawdown on file
−88%

Worst drawdown on file · −47% today

Details›
Cash and short-term investments
$343M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$759M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$675M
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
66%
Worst drawdown on file
−88%
Below its 52-week high
47%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.