Kaiser Aluminum Financial Ratios
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Kaiser Aluminum ratio analysis
Kaiser Aluminum earned a net margin of 3.3% in FY 2025, up from 2.2% a year earlier. Gross margin was 13.1% compared with a median of 18.0% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 13.6%, meaning Kaiser Aluminum generated 0.14 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 1.28 versus 1.40 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.95. At the end of FY 2025, KALU traded at 17.8 times earnings; across the 8 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 15.3 to 54.6, with a median of 17.6. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Kaiser Aluminum financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 17.77 | 17.47 | 16.91 | — | — | 54.64 | 29.04 | 17.15 | 40.63 | 15.26 |
| Price / sales | 0.58 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.35 | 0.57 | 1.33 | 1.18 | 0.97 | 1.30 | 1.04 |
| Price / book | 2.35 | 1.52 | 1.61 | 1.91 | 2.15 | 2.13 | 2.42 | 2.09 | 2.43 | 1.72 |
| Gross margin | 13.1% | 11.8% | 11.6% | 7.2% | 10.4% | 19.7% | 19.7% | 18.0% | 22.3% | 24.8% |
| Operating margin | 5.6% | 3.7% | 4.0% | 0.1% | 2.5% | 6.9% | 8.3% | 9.1% | 11.1% | 13.6% |
| Net margin | 3.3% | 2.2% | 2.2% | -0.9% | -0.7% | 2.5% | 4.1% | 5.8% | 3.2% | 6.9% |
| Free cash flow margin | -0.8% | -0.5% | 2.2% | -6.0% | 0.8% | 13.2% | 11.4% | 4.8% | 4.7% | 6.7% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 13.6% | 8.8% | 9.6% | -4.7% | -2.7% | 3.9% | 8.4% | 12.4% | 6.1% | 11.4% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 4.4% | 2.7% | 3.0% | -1.3% | -0.8% | 1.5% | 4.1% | 6.5% | 3.3% | 6.4% |
| Debt / equity | 1.28 | 1.40 | 1.47 | 1.64 | 1.50 | 1.14 | 0.67 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.46 |
| Current ratio | 2.95 | 2.68 | 2.68 | 2.49 | 2.64 | 7.08 | 4.58 | 3.20 | 3.79 | 3.98 |
| Revenue growth | 11.5% | -2.0% | -9.9% | 30.7% | 123.6% | -22.5% | -4.5% | 13.5% | 5.0% | -4.4% |
| EPS growth | 68.4% | -4.5% | — | — | -164.6% | -52.7% | -29.5% | 106.5% | -48.3% | — |