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$95.79 +2.67 (+2.87%)
Closing price 10/24/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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KALU vs. CENX, AA, CSTM, AMBP, TRS, NWPX, EAF, FRD, NNBR, and TPCS

Should you be buying Kaiser Aluminum stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kaiser Aluminum include Century Aluminum (CENX), Alcoa (AA), Constellium (CSTM), Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMBP), TriMas (TRS), NWPX Infrastructure (NWPX), GrafTech International (EAF), Friedman Industries (FRD), NN (NNBR), and Techprecision (TPCS). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.

Kaiser Aluminum vs. Its Competitors

Kaiser Aluminum (NASDAQ:KALU) and Century Aluminum (NASDAQ:CENX) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Kaiser Aluminum presently has a consensus price target of $88.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.13%. Century Aluminum has a consensus price target of $27.75, indicating a potential downside of 9.87%. Given Kaiser Aluminum's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Kaiser Aluminum is more favorable than Century Aluminum.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kaiser Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Century Aluminum
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

99.3% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Kaiser Aluminum shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Century Aluminum shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Kaiser Aluminum has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Century Aluminum has a beta of 2.52, indicating that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Kaiser Aluminum had 4 more articles in the media than Century Aluminum. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Kaiser Aluminum and 18 mentions for Century Aluminum. Kaiser Aluminum's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Century Aluminum's score of 0.55 indicating that Kaiser Aluminum is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Kaiser Aluminum
8 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Century Aluminum
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Century Aluminum has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kaiser Aluminum. Kaiser Aluminum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Century Aluminum, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kaiser Aluminum$3.21B0.48$46.80M$5.5317.32
Century Aluminum$2.43B1.18$336.80M$1.1626.54

Century Aluminum has a net margin of 4.94% compared to Kaiser Aluminum's net margin of 2.85%. Century Aluminum's return on equity of 18.02% beat Kaiser Aluminum's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kaiser Aluminum2.85% 10.67% 3.25%
Century Aluminum 4.94%18.02%6.21%

Summary

Century Aluminum beats Kaiser Aluminum on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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KALU vs. The Competition

MetricKaiser AluminumMETAL PROC&FABR IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.51B$2.55B$7.96B$10.67B
Dividend Yield3.95%2.85%4.57%4.81%
P/E Ratio17.3228.9025.3030.71
Price / Sales0.4810.061,256.17173.93
Price / Cash9.3732.7728.0061.44
Price / Book1.922.414.996.61
Net Income$46.80M$107.36M$790.14M$277.10M
7 Day Performance22.70%4.48%1.86%2.56%
1 Month Performance29.43%4.15%3.19%3.77%
1 Year Performance40.17%16.47%31.01%33.01%

Kaiser Aluminum Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KALU
Kaiser Aluminum
3.344 of 5 stars
$95.79
+2.9%
$88.00
-8.1%
+42.3%$1.51B$3.21B17.324,000Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
CENX
Century Aluminum
3.267 of 5 stars
$32.91
+8.6%
$28.50
-13.4%
+73.5%$2.83B$2.22B28.372,971News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
AA
Alcoa
3.5541 of 5 stars
$36.19
+3.3%
$43.04
+18.9%
-6.1%$9.07B$11.90B9.4513,900Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Down
CSTM
Constellium
2.0883 of 5 stars
$15.09
+4.7%
$16.33
+8.3%
+55.7%$2.01B$7.34B79.4012,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
AMBP
Ardagh Metal Packaging
2.6942 of 5 stars
$3.69
+1.5%
$4.27
+15.9%
-2.8%$2.17B$5.23B-122.836,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
TRS
TriMas
4.1995 of 5 stars
$35.88
+0.1%
$45.00
+25.4%
+46.2%$1.46B$925.01M39.433,900News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
NWPX
NWPX Infrastructure
2.5995 of 5 stars
$50.49
+2.1%
$57.50
+13.9%
+25.5%$477.19M$492.55M15.211,358Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
EAF
GrafTech International
0.9233 of 5 stars
$19.50
+6.9%
$16.25
-16.7%
-6.9%$470.87M$538.78M-2.381,072Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
FRD
Friedman Industries
1.2047 of 5 stars
$20.23
+2.0%
N/AN/A$139.99M$444.60M16.86100Positive News
NNBR
NN
3.1292 of 5 stars
$1.89
+3.8%
$4.00
+111.6%
-54.3%$91.81M$464.29M-1.672,900Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
TPCS
Techprecision
0.9256 of 5 stars
$5.21
+0.8%
N/A+33.9%$51.46M$34.03M-27.42160Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓

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This page (NASDAQ:KALU) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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