Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
107.28USD
-6.9400 (-6.08%)
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Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. It offers flat-rolled plate, sheet, and coil; extruded rod, bar, hollows, and shapes; drawn rod, bar, pipe, tube, and wire; and cast aluminum products. The company also offers aero/HS products, such as heat-treated plates and sheets, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rods and bars, and seamless drawn tubes and billets used for end uses in the global aerospace, space, and defense industries, as well as packaging products, including bare and coated 3000 and 5000-series alloy aluminum coils used in beverage and food packaging industry. In addition, the company provides general engineering products comprising 6000-series aluminum alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire, and standard extruded shapes used in various applications, including the production of armor for military vehicles, ordnances, semiconductor manufacturing cells, electronic devices, power transmission bus pipe and bar, after-market motor sport parts, tooling plates, machinery and equipment parts, bolts, screws, and rivets. Further, it offers automotive extrusions consisting of 6000-series extruded aluminum products for structural components, crash management systems, anti-lock braking systems, and drawn tubes for drive shafts, as well as offers fabrication services, such as sawing and cutting to length. The company sells its products directly to aerospace and automotive manufacturers, tier one aerospace and automotive suppliers, beverage and food packaging manufacturers, and metal service centers through sales personnel located in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Kaiser Aluminum Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
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Reading the stored fundamentals…
Dated 52-week rows are the highest and lowest CLOSE and the day each happened, which sits a little inside the intraday range a vendor quotes. Quotes are refreshed once a night — during a session the price above is the previous close.
Is the price low against peers, cash flow and analyst targets?
Do analysts expect earnings and revenue to keep growing?
2 of 6 checks could not be assessed (too few analysts cover it and there is no analyst coverage stored).
Has the business grown and earned good returns on its filed numbers?
Can the balance sheet carry its debt?
Is the dividend decent, covered and steady?
Each axis asks six plain questions of the stored data. A check that passes counts one. A check the stored data cannot answer is left out of the count, never counted as a fail, and an axis needs four answerable checks to show a result. Axes are never added together: there is no overall score. The thresholds are conventional rules of thumb and are blunt across sectors, so each check is listed with its rule and the figure it used.
P/E below peers
Trailing P/E is positive and below the median of its peers: the companies in its industry if there are at least 5, else its sector if at least 10, else the whole market if at least 30, always in the same currency.
P/E 8.3 against a peer median of 23.9 (35 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector).
Passed
PEG ratio
The PEG ratio is positive and at most 1.5.
PEG 1.17.
Passed
EV/EBITDA below peers
EV/EBITDA is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E. Not applied to financial companies.
EV/EBITDA 5.8 against a peer median of 10.0 (43 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector).
Passed
Price/book below peers
Price to book is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E.
Price/book 1.78 against a peer median of 2.75 (47 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector).
Passed
Statements: SEC filings, newest period 09/2026.
Peers: P/E against 35 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector; EV/EBITDA against 43 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector; price/book against 47 USD companies in the Basic Materials sector.
Rules of thumb applied to stored filings and quote data. Statements are as of the newest period shown above; multiples, analyst targets, estimates and yield come from a best-effort refresh and can lag by days. A count of plain checks, not a rating, a valuation or investment advice. Terms
Free cash flow yield
Free cash flow is at least 4.5% of market cap, the risk-free rate used across this site. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow yield 7.1% against a 4.5% risk-free rate.
Passed
Analyst target above price
The mean analyst target is at least 15% above the last close, from at least 3 analysts. A published consensus, not a fair value.
Mean analyst target above the last close by 47.5% (5 analysts).
Passed
Earnings growth, next year
Consensus EPS for next fiscal year is at least 10% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's EPS: consensus down 11.8% (5 analysts).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, this year
Consensus EPS for this fiscal year is at least 10% above last year's figure on the same street basis, from at least 3 analysts.
Only 2 analysts behind the estimate; 3 are needed.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, next year
Consensus revenue for next fiscal year is at least 5% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's revenue: consensus down 0.2% (4 analysts).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, this year
Consensus revenue for this fiscal year is at least 5% above last year's reported revenue, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's revenue: consensus up 42.2% (4 analysts).
Passed
Estimates rising
More analysts raised than cut this year's EPS estimate over the last 90 days, with at least 2 revisions in all.
No analyst estimates are stored for this security.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, latest quarter
Revenue in the latest quarter is at least 8% above the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest-quarter revenue up 44.0% on a year earlier.
Passed
Earnings growth, multi-year
Net income grew at least 5% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures, positive at both ends).
Net income grew 31.3% a year, FY2020 to FY2025.
Passed
Earnings growth, last year
Net income over the latest twelve months is above the twelve months before it, and positive.
Net income up 109.9% (twelve months to 09/2026).
Passed
Revenue growth, multi-year
Revenue grew at least 3% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures).
Revenue grew 23.5% a year, FY2020 to FY2025.
Passed
Return on equity
Return on equity is at least 15%: twelve-month net income over average equity. Not meaningful when equity is negative.
Return on equity 24.5%: twelve-month net income over the average equity.
Passed
Return on assets
Return on assets is at least 5%: twelve-month net income over average assets. Not applied to financial companies.
Return on assets 7.9%: twelve-month net income over the average assets.
Passed
Cash earnings
Operating cash flow over the latest twelve months is positive and at least net income. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow was at or above net income over the last twelve months.
Passed
Current ratio
Current assets are at least 1.0x current liabilities. Not applied to financial companies.
Current ratio 2.6x.
Passed
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities
Current assets are at least the liabilities that fall due after a year (total liabilities less current liabilities). Not applied to financial companies.
Current assets are 1.2x the liabilities due after a year.
Passed
Debt to equity
Total debt is at most 100% of equity; no debt passes, negative equity with debt does not. Not applied to financial companies.
Total debt is 109% of equity.
Did not pass
Net debt to EBITDA
Net debt (total debt less cash) is at most 3.0x EBITDA; a net cash position passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Net debt is 2.0x EBITDA.
Passed
Interest cover
Operating income covers interest expense at least 3.0x; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating income covers interest 6.1x.
Passed
Cash flow to debt
Operating cash flow is at least 20% of total debt; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow is 21.3% of total debt.
Passed
Dividend yield
The dividend yield is at least 2%.
Dividend yield 2.87%.
Passed
Payout ratio
Dividends paid are at most 75% of net income. Not applied to real estate companies, whose net income is after depreciation.
Dividends paid were 24% of net income.
Passed
Free cash flow cover
Free cash flow covers the dividends paid at least 1.0x. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow covers dividends 2.4x.
Passed
Paid every year
A dividend was paid in every one of the last 4 to 8 fiscal years stored (consecutive years, all present). A year missing from the filings data is not read as no dividend, so a gap makes this not assessed.
A dividend was paid in all 8 fiscal years, FY2018 to FY2025.
Passed
No cuts
Total dividends paid never fell by more than 20% from one fiscal year to the next in that window.
No fall of more than 20% between fiscal years, FY2018 to FY2025.
Passed
Growing dividend
Total dividends paid grew at least 3% a year across that window. The total, not per share: no per-share dividend history is stored.
Total dividends grew 4.5% a year, FY2018 to FY2025.
Passed