Key Points Century Aluminum beat on sales and earnings last night. Earnings improved sequentially, but declined steeply year over year. 10 stocks we like better than Century Aluminum › Friday is turning out to be a great day to own shares of Century Aluminum (NASDAQ: CENX) -- one day after the metals producer reported earning nearly twice Wall Street's forecast for Q3. Heading into yesterday's report, analysts expected Century to earn $0.30 per share (adjusted) in Q3, on$628.1 million in sales. I ...