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Revenue
$77.22M+725.27%Company Profile
- CEO
- John C. Hill
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Employees
- 6
- Beta
- 0.74
- Country
- US
- Piotroski score
- 6 / 9 (Middling)
- Altman Z-score
- 249.71
Financials
Revenue
$77.22M+725.3%Net Income
$56.54MEBITDA
$56.63MFree Cash Flow
$25.54M+23.2%EPS (diluted)
$1.91Shares Outstanding (diluted)
29.55M+16.6%Operating Expenses
$0.00Cash & Debt
$86.99MReturn of Capital
$9.16MDividend per Share
$0.31Quote
Valuation & Ratios
Returns & Efficiency
Revenue & Net Income (Annual)
| Fiscal Year | Revenue | Net Income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $86.95M | $265.21M | $9.15 |
| 2024 | $296.20M | $287.97M | $10.14 |
| 2023 | $57.37M | $223.64M | $7.88 |
| 2022 | $-152.65M | $-158.67M | $-5.81 |
| 2021 | $360.31M | $353.58M | $13.47 |
| 2020 | $79.89M | $73.72M | $2.81 |
| 2019 | $256.96M | $251.01M | $9.70 |
| 2018 | $-28.49M | $-34.28M | $-1.34 |
| 2017 | $174.85M | $169.21M | $6.73 |
| 2016 | $118.04M | $112.64M | $4.53 |
| 2015 | $-12.61M | $-17.04M | $-0.69 |
| 2014 | $34.50M | $30.13M | $1.15 |
| 2013 | $147.86M | $143.17M | $5.95 |
| 2012 | $17.45M | $12.94M | $0.51 |
Valuation
Project earnings forward and see what return today's price implies.
Seeded from CET's reported EPS growth of 24.9% a year over 13 years.
- EPS in 5 years
- $27.81
- Implied price
- $166.87
- Return from $54.52
- 25.1% a year
To earn 15.0% a year on these assumptions you'd need to buy at $82.97 — today's price is already 34.3% below that.
How sensitive is that answer?
Annual return across nearby assumptions. If the result is only attractive in one corner, that is the finding.
| growth \ P/E | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.9% | -7.6% | 6.1% | 15.1% | 21.9% | 27.4% |
| 19.9% | -3.6% | 10.7% | 20.1% | 27.2% | 33.0% |
| 24.9% | 0.4% | 15.3% | 25.1% | 32.5% | 38.5% |
| 29.9% | 4.4% | 19.9% | 30.1% | 37.8% | 44.1% |
| 34.9% | 8.4% | 24.6% | 35.1% | 43.1% | 49.6% |
This is arithmetic on assumptions you chose, not a forecast or a recommendation. It ignores dividends, buybacks, share issuance and debt, and it assumes a company still earning money in 5 years. Change any input and the answer changes a lot — that sensitivity is the honest result, not a flaw in the model.
Signal Score (90d)
106Social Signal Score
Mentions (1)
- Newsseekingalpha.com·5h ago·Neutral
CET: Good For Capital Growth, But May Not Be Attractive For Income Central Securities Corporation is a closed-end fund with a long-term record of outperforming the S&P 500, driven by a concentrated, value-oriented equity portfolio. CET avoids heavy technology exposure, instead focusing on financials—particularly insurance underwriters like Plymouth Rock, which accounts for 22.2% of assets and over 50% of income. The fund pays a variable, semi-annual distribution yielding 5.07%, fully covered by …
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Insider trading
Open-market buys and sells by CET officers and directors.
- Bought
- $421k
- Sold
- —
23 trades
0 trades
- Hill John Cbought
- Hill John Cbought
- Blackford Leo Pricebought
- Hill John Cbought
- Hill John Cbought
- Hill John Cbought
- O'neill Andrew Jbought
- Hill John Cbought
77 further Form 4 entries are share awards, option exercises or shares withheld for tax. Those are compensation, not trades, so they are excluded above. Buying is the stronger signal: an insider spends their own money for one reason. Selling has many innocent explanations — tax, diversifying, a house — so it says far less than it appears to. Via SEC filings.