Kaiser Aluminum/$KALU
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About Kaiser Aluminum
Kaiser Aluminum Corp specializes in the production of semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products, such as aluminum plate and sheet, bare and coated coil and extruded and drawn products, for the end market applications: Aero/HS Products; Packaging; GE Products; and Automotive Extrusions. Its products include fabricated aluminum mill products such as flat-rolled (plate, sheet, and coil), extruded (rod, bar, hollows, and shapes), drawn (rod, bar, pipe, tube and wire) and certain cast aluminum products. Geographically, the company generates majority of its revenue from the United States.
- Ticker
- $KALU
- Sector
- Materials
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 3,800
- Headquarters
- Franklin, United States
- Website
- www.kaiseraluminum.com
Kaiser Aluminum Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$1.9B
9.00
$12.93
1.58
$3.08
2.65%
Price and volume
Market cap
$1.9B
Beta
1.58
52-week high
$199.89
52-week low
$87.89
Average daily volume
331K
Dividend rate
$3.08
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.627
Quick ratio
1.175
Long term debt to equity
1.085
Total debt to equity
1.094
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
23.80%
Interest coverage (TTM)
5.99%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
462.2
Gross margin (TTM)
13.35%
Net profit margin (TTM)
4.85%
Operating margin (TTM)
7.59%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
25.27%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$1,190,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
7.76%
Return on equity (TTM)
24.53%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
8.996
Price to revenue (TTM)
0.42
Price to book
1.93
Price to tangible book (TTM)
2.05
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
15.176
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
6.59%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
7.662
Dividend yield (TTM)
2.65%
Forward dividend yield
2.65%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
40.43%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
104.81%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
12.79%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
13.11%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
150.41%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
11.16%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
5.52%
What the Analysts think about Kaiser Aluminum
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Kaiser Aluminum stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Kaiser Aluminum stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Demand remains strong in aerospace and general engineering, while management said commercial aerospace destocking had ended and customer visibility for future supply is improving. Third-quarter shipments rose 11% year on year. (Kaiser Aluminum, Motley Fool)
Recent capacity investments and a shift towards higher-value coated packaging products are beginning to support growth. The Trentwood expansion helped lift shipments, and third-quarter conversion revenue rose 25% year on year. (Kaiser Aluminum)
Kaiser’s balance sheet is stronger: net debt leverage fell to 2.0 times from 3.4 times at the end of 2025, and it generated $176 million of free cash flow in the first nine months of 2026. Moody’s also upgraded its credit rating to Ba3 with a stable outlook. (Kaiser Aluminum)
Operational problems weighed on profitability: third-quarter adjusted EBITDA margin fell to 19.1% from 23.2% a year earlier, with outages, lower operating efficiency and packaging start-up costs among the pressures. The quarter’s margin was also hurt by lower scrap use. (Kaiser Aluminum)
Earnings remain vulnerable to metal-price timing: the year-on-year change in metal-price lag was an adverse $29 million in the third quarter. Management kept its full-year outlook but expects adjusted EBITDA growth towards the lower end of its range, partly because of metal-related headwinds. (Kaiser Aluminum)
Automotive is a weaker end market: third-quarter shipments fell 15% year on year, and management described wider market conditions as mixed amid high consumer finance costs and tariff uncertainty. A planned plant outage contributed to the shipment decline. (Benzinga)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 22 Oct 2026.
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Funds containing Kaiser Aluminum
AllUSDEURGBP
Fund name | Fund size | $KALU weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares S&P SmallCap 600$IDP6 | $3.2B | 0.11% |
iShares S&P Small Cap 600£ISP6 | $3.2B | 0.11% |
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap£R2SC | $5.3B | 0.07% |
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap€R2US | $5.3B | 0.07% |
L&G Global Quality Dividends£LDGG | $353M | 0.03% |
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