Century Aluminum News

Shares of companies showing remarkable turnaround or even hints of it are often the subject of brisk advances.

The firm currently has a $14.00 price target on the stock. A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on CENX.

The analysts wrote, "Century Aluminum Company has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from sell to hold.

The early reaction was favorable to Century Aluminum's announcement that it will buy Rio Tinto Alcan's 500-employee Sebree smelter in the coming weeks.

Monday's news that Century Aluminum was buying the Sebree Aluminum plant in Kentucky struck me as funny for all the wrong reasons.

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The firm currently has an "underperform" rating on the stock. Shares of Century Aluminum Company traded up 12.17% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $7.56. Century Aluminum Company has a 52 week low of $5.52 and a 52 week high of $9.70. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $7.60. The company's market cap is $669.8 million.

Midway through trading Monday, the Dow traded up 0.49 percent to 14,784.76 while the NASDAQ gained 0.84 percent to 3,306.75. The S&P also rose, surging 0.58 percent to 1,591.39. Loews' quarterly profit declined to $242 million, or $0.62 per share, from $367 million, or $0.92 per share, in the year-ago period.

Century Aluminum Co. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of the Sebree aluminum smelter from Rio Tinto Alcan.

The firm currently has an "overweight" rating on the stock. A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on CENX.

Century Aluminum Company released its earnings data on Thursday. The company reported $0.09 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of by $0.13, ARN reports.

Century Aluminum Co., Monterey, Calif., has issued a conditional notice to employees of its Hawesville, Ky., aluminum smelter of its intent to close the plant on Aug.

Markets continued their positive streak for the second day of the current trading week.

But all's not well in alumi-land. Another aluminum manufacturer -- Century Aluminum -- has just warned workers and investors that it might be forced to close down its largest aluminum plant in the United States.