Crane (NYSE:CR) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Crane (NYSE:CR - Get Free Report) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 5.300-5.600 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 5.490. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.2 billion-$2.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.3 billion.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research analysts have recently commented on CR shares. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft set a $186.00 target price on Crane and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Monday, April 14th. StockNews.com cut Crane from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Tuesday, March 4th. DA Davidson reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a $200.00 price objective on shares of Crane in a report on Tuesday, March 11th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their target price on Crane from $170.00 to $144.00 and set a "hold" rating for the company in a report on Monday, April 14th. Finally, UBS Group upped their price target on shares of Crane from $152.00 to $157.00 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a research note on Friday, January 3rd. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $170.40.

Crane Trading Down 0.3 %

CR traded down $0.40 during trading on Monday, reaching $148.36. 474,214 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 325,953. The company has a current ratio of 1.18, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29. Crane has a one year low of $127.04 and a one year high of $188.52. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $151.15 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $160.14. The stock has a market capitalization of $8.52 billion, a PE ratio of 19.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.93 and a beta of 1.31.

Crane (NYSE:CR - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April 28th. The conglomerate reported $1.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.29 by $0.10. Crane had a return on equity of 24.45% and a net margin of 13.10%. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Crane will post 7.87 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Crane

In other Crane news, VP Alejandro Alcala sold 2,293 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, February 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $170.96, for a total transaction of $392,011.28. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now directly owns 32,963 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,635,354.48. This trade represents a 6.50 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. 2.12% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About Crane

Crane Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells engineered industrial products in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Aerospace & Electronics, Process Flow Technologies, and Engineered Materials.

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