Century Aluminum Company, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells standard-grade and value-added primary aluminum products in the United States and Iceland. It also owns and operates a carbon anode production facility located in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, as well as engages in the bauxite mining and alumina refining business in Jamaica. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.77), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Where CENX ranks in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining
Century Aluminum Company ranks #18 of 86
scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining by moat score — the top 21%.
The widest moat in the group is Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO)
at 90/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CENX in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 78
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 72
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 56
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 52
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 69
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Century Aluminum Company (CENX) scores 64 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #18 of 86 scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining, the top 21%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 85 companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (78/100) and its weakest is Resilience (52/100).
How does Century Aluminum Company compare with other Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining companies?
Century Aluminum Company ranks #18 of 86 scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining by moat score. The widest moat in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining is Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) at 90/100. The companies ranked closest are Constellium SE (CSTM) at 66 just above it and Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU) at 64 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 85 companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Century Aluminum Company scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Century Aluminum Company?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CENX scores: Pricing Power (63), Cost Advantage (78), Customer Stickiness (72), Capital Efficiency (56), Resilience (52), Scale & Market Position (69). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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