Curtiss-Wright (CW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Curtiss-Wright in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CW shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Curtiss-Wright's shares. Their CW share price targets range from $252.00 to $300.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $277.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.1%.
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Curtiss-Wright's stock was trading at $222.79 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, CW stock has increased by 24.5% and is now trading at $277.33.
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Curtiss-Wright saw a decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 268,000 shares, a decline of 17.2% from the April 15th total of 323,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 209,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.3 days. Approximately 0.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2024.
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Curtiss-Wright Co. (NYSE:CW) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 1st. The aerospace company reported $1.99 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.75 by $0.24. The aerospace company had revenue of $713.17 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $664.01 million. Curtiss-Wright had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.79% and a net margin of 12.78%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 13.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.53 earnings per share.

Curtiss-Wright announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 10th. Investors of record on Monday, June 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.21 per share on Friday, July 5th. This represents a $0.84 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 17th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20.
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Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.29%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 8.24%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CW will have a dividend payout ratio of 7.15% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) stock in their portfolio include Gabelli Commercial Aerospace & Defense ETF (GCAD), SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (XAR), First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (MISL), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Congress SMid Growth ETF (CSMD), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Low Volatility ETF (DVOL), iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) and Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X Shares (DFEN).

Curtiss-Wright updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 10.100-10.400 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 10.230. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.0 billion-$3.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.0 billion.

53 employees have rated Curtiss-Wright Chief Executive Officer David C. Adams on Glassdoor.com. David C. Adams has an approval rating of 47% among the company's employees. This puts David C. Adams in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Curtiss-Wright investors own include Tutor Perini (TPC), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Walt Disney (DIS), Pfizer (PFE), Broadcom (AVGO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Boeing (BA) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).

Curtiss-Wright's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.55%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.44%), Global Alpha Capital Management Ltd. (0.92%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.38%), Lord Abbett & CO. LLC (0.31%) and Van ECK Associates Corp (0.29%). Insiders that own company stock include David Charles Adams, Gary A Ogilby, John C Watts, K Christopher Farkas, Kevin Rayment, Lynn M Bamford, Paul J Ferdenzi and Robert F Freda.
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Shares of CW stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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