On Friday, Century Aluminum cleared a key performance benchmark, seeing its Relative Strength (RS) Rating jump into the 90-plus percentile with an improvement to 92, up from 89 the day before.
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This exclusive rating from Investor's Business Daily identifies market leadership with a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score. The score shows how a stock's price performance over the last 52 weeks holds up against all the other stocks in our database.
Decades of market research reveals that the top-performing stocks typically have an 80 or higher RS Rating as they begin their largest runs.
Century Aluminum is trying to complete a consolidation with a 25.39 entry. See if it can break out in heavy trade. Keep in mind that it's a later-stage consolidation, and those entail more risk.
Earnings growth picked up last quarter from 0% to 2,900%. But revenue gains fell from 29% to 12%.
Century Aluminum earns the No. 2 rank among its peers in the Metal-Fabricators industry group. Mueller Industries is the No. 1-ranked stock within the group.
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