Crane Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:CR)

Crane trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CR."

Crane announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, July 22nd. Stockholders of record on Saturday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.39 per share on Monday, September 9th. This represents a $1.56 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.90%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 29th. View Crane's Dividend History.

Crane Co. (NYSE:CR) posted its earnings results on Monday, October, 22nd. The conglomerate reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.46 by $0.16. The conglomerate earned $855.80 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $855.87 million. Crane had a return on equity of 24.24% and a net margin of 10.67%. Crane's revenue for the quarter was up 23.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.13 EPS. View Crane's Earnings History.

Crane is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October 28th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Crane.

Crane will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, October 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

11 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Crane's stock. Their forecasts range from $79.14 to $107.00. On average, they expect Crane's stock price to reach $98.86 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Crane.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Crane in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Crane.

Media headlines about CR stock have trended neutral this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Crane earned a news sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Crane.

Crane saw a decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 456,400 shares, a decline of 29.3% from the August 30th total of 645,400 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 298,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.9% of the company's shares are sold short. View Crane's Current Options Chain.

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Crane's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Dudley & Shanley Inc. (0.38%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.26%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.22%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.10%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.07%) and Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL (0.05%). Company insiders that own Crane stock include A D Pantaleoni, Augustus I Dupont, Bradley Ellis, Brendan Curran, Curtis A Baron Jr, Donald G Cook, E Thayer Bigelow, Edward S Switter, James A Lavish, James L L Tullis, Kristian Robert Salovaara, Louis V Pinkham, Max H Mitchell and Richard A Maue. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Crane.

CR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including CWM LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Dudley & Shanley Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc., Rhumbline Advisers, Capital Investment Advisory Services LLC and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have sold Crane company stock in the last year include James A Lavish, Kristian Robert Salovaara and Louis V Pinkham. View Insider Buying and Selling for Crane.

CR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Brinker Capital Inc., Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank . Company insiders that have bought Crane stock in the last two years include Donald G Cook and James L L Tullis. View Insider Buying and Selling for Crane.

Shares of CR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $82.28.

Crane has a market capitalization of $4.93 billion and generates $3.35 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $335.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.99 on an earnings per share basis. Crane employs 12,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Crane.

The official website for Crane is http://www.craneco.com/.

Crane's mailing address is 100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, STAMFORD CT, 06902. The conglomerate can be reached via phone at 203-363-7300 or via email at [email protected]