The Uranium Monopoly’s Great Divide
@orsiri:
Centrus Energy has become the nuclear market’s ultimate argument starter. The bulls see a strategically indispensable US fuel supplier sitting at the intersection of nuclear revival, energy security and AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity. The bears see an expensive stock whose current earnings barely justify the valuation, let alone the enormous future investors have already begun to price in. Then there is the share price. LEU closed at $173.89 on 4 September, down more than 62% from its 52-week high of $464.25. That is not a routine pullback. It is a full-scale demolition of the momentum trade. Yet the underlying strategic case has hardly been demolished with it. That disconnect is what makes Centrus so interesting now. The stock collapsed. The strategic bottleneck did not From nuc