Growth Metrics

Century Aluminum (CENX) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Century Aluminum's Operating Margin history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 5.21% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin fell 55.0% year-over-year to 5.21%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 5.93%, up 164.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 6.25%, 137.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 5.21% in Q4 2025 per CENX's latest filing, down from 8.84% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 10.93% in Q3 2024 to a low of 17.45% in Q2 2022.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 1.68%, with a median of 3.87% recorded in 2023.
  • The largest YoY upside for Operating Margin was 1910bps in 2022 against a maximum downside of -1974bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 7.66% in 2021, then plummeted by -175bps to 5.76% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 184bps to 4.86% in 2023, then increased by 18bps to 5.75% in 2024, then decreased by -9bps to 5.21% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CENX's Operating Margin are 5.21% (Q4 2025), 8.84% (Q3 2025), and 2.88% (Q2 2025).