Growth Metrics

Century Aluminum (CENX) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Century Aluminum's Return on Invested Capital history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.23% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 35.0% year-over-year to 0.23%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.23%, down 35.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 1.11%, 94.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.23% in Q4 2025 per CENX's latest filing, down from 0.18% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Invested Capital ranged from a high of 0.18% in Q2 2025 to a low of 1.48% in Q1 2023.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.06%, with a median of 0.01% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: plummeted -156bps in 2023, then skyrocketed 147bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.12% in 2021, then rose by 15bps to 0.13% in 2022, then crashed by -63bps to 0.05% in 2023, then soared by 145bps to 0.12% in 2024, then crashed by -291bps to 0.23% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CENX's Return on Invested Capital are 0.23% (Q4 2025), 0.18% (Q3 2025), and 0.18% (Q2 2025).