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AA vs CENX

Side-by-side comparison of Alcoa Corporation (AA) and Century Aluminum Company (CENX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AA and CENX operate in Aluminum (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
  • AA is the larger of the two at $20.52B, about 3.2x CENX ($6.33B).
  • Over the past year, AA is up 192.5% and CENX is up 239.7% - CENX leads by 47.3 points.
  • AA has hit the wire 16 times in the past 4 weeks while CENX has been quiet.
  • AA has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for CENX).
PerformanceAA+192.46%CENX+239.71%
2025-06-02+0.00%2026-06-01
MetricAACENX
Company
Alcoa Corporation
Century Aluminum Company
Price
$77.77+0.16%
$63.90-3.16%
Market cap
$20.52B
$6.33B
1M return
+21.91%
+7.50%
1Y return
+192.46%
+239.71%
Industry
Aluminum
Aluminum
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2016
1996
News (4w)
16
0
Recent ratings
25
13
AA

Alcoa Corporation

Alcoa Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products in the United States, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Bauxite, Alumina, and Aluminum. It engages in bauxite mining operations; and processes bauxite into alumina and sells it to customers who process it into industrial chemical products, as well as aluminum smelting, casting, and rolling businesses. The company offers primary aluminum in the form of alloy ingot or value-add ingot to customers that produce products for the transportation, building and construction, packaging, wire, and other industrial markets; and flat-rolled aluminum sheets to customers that produce beverage and food cans. In addition, it owns hydro power plants that produce and sell electricity to the wholesale market to traders, large industrial consumers, distribution companies, and other generation companies. The company was formerly known as Alcoa Upstream Corporation and changed its name to Alcoa Corporation in October 2016. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

CENX

Century Aluminum Company

Century Aluminum Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces standard-grade and value-added primary aluminum products in the United States and Iceland. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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