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Key Takeaways From Century Aluminum's 4Q Earnings (Part 10 of 16) (Continued from Part 9) Working capital management
Working capital management is a key focus area for any company. A company has to allocate funds towards its working capital. Generally, this capital is in the form of short-term borrowings. These borrowings have interest costs attached to them. As a result, companies’ interest expenses increase if they have higher working capital. In this part, we’ll analyze Century Aluminum’s working capital management.
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Positive impact
Working capital management had a positive impact of $10 million on Century Aluminum’s (CENX) fourth quarter cash flows. Century Aluminum changed its suppliers’ payment terms. As a result, its days payable outstanding, or DPO, increased to 26.66 days. Its DPO was 21.49 days in 3Q14. You can define DPO as the average number of days that a company takes to pay its suppliers. A higher DPO is generally associated with good working capital management.
Century Aluminum also took more time to collect payments from its buyers. Its days sales outstanding, or DSO, increased in the fourth quarter. It took an average of 12.51 days to collect payment from its buyers. This can be seen in the above chart. Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS) sources raw material from Century Aluminum.
However, working capital had a positive impact on Century Aluminum’s cash flows. There are several other parts of Century Aluminum’s cash flows that investors should understand. We’ll discuss them in more detail in the next part of this series.
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Century Aluminum is a producing company based in United states of america. Century Aluminum is listed in United States of America. Its market capitalisation is US$ 1.1 billions as of today (€ 1.0 billions). Its stock quote reached its lowest recent point on March 06, 2009 at US$ 1.06, and its highest recent level on September 12, 2024 at US$ 13.04. Century Aluminum has 87 260 000 shares outstanding. |