Kaiser Aluminum PE ratio KALU

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months, since 2011.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 8.3×
10-year median: 23.2×
Against its 10-year history: 0th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 8.3× to 498×
Peer median: 23.8×

Kaiser Aluminum's PE ratio is 8.3× as of Oct 23, 2026: a share price of $107.28 against $12.93 of earnings per share over the last twelve months.

That is below its ten-year median of 23.2×, lower than on 100% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 8.3× in Oct 2026 to 498× in May 2021.

The median for 10 manufacturing metal fabrication stocks of a similar size is 23.8×.

PE ratio over time

median 23.2×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	8.3×	8.3×	25.4×
2025	21.3×	16.4×	33.6×
2024	23.9×	23.6×	83.9×
2023	87.9×	67.0×	125×
2022	n/m a value too high to mean anything
2021	442×	62.0×	498×
2020	130×	14.6×	131×
2019	19.0×	15.4×	34.7×
2018	28.7×	21.7×	55.6×
2017	22.1×	14.3×	23.7×
2016	17.6×	14.9×	21.1×
2015	20.4×	15.5×	20.4×
2014	16.1×	12.5×	16.5×
2013	15.6×	12.9×	15.6×
2012	14.0×	13.5×	50.4×
2011	44.1×	38.7×	64.4×

Against its peers

Companies in Manufacturing - Metal Fabrication nearest Kaiser Aluminum's size, closest first, today.

Company	PE ratio
KALUKaiser Aluminum	8.3×
PRLBProto Labs	68.5×
HLMNHillman Solutions	32.7×
XPELXPEL	21.9×
NWPXNWPX Infrastructure	19.5×
NXQuanex Building Products CORP	20.2×
GEFGreif	n/m
AZZAZZ	23.8×
SLGNSilgan	15.4×
GFFGriffon	24.8×
MTRNMATERION	51.5×
Peer median	23.8×

Where Kaiser Aluminum ranks

What the PE ratio tells you

Share price divided by earnings per share over the last twelve months. It is the price tag on a dollar of profit: 20× means you pay $20 for $1 of yearly earnings.

Blank while earnings are negative. A very low PE can mean the market expects profits to fall, so read it with growth and the company's own history.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.