NYSE:CR - Crane Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Crane announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 22nd. Investors of record on Friday, November 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.35 per share on Monday, December 10th. This represents a $1.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 29th. View Crane's Dividend History.

Crane Co. (NYSE:CR) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 22nd. The conglomerate reported $1.62 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.46 by $0.16. The conglomerate had revenue of $855.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $855.87 million. Crane had a return on equity of 23.29% and a net margin of 6.76%. Crane's quarterly revenue was up 23.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.13 earnings per share. View Crane's Earnings History.

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

Crane will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 29th at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Crane issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, October, 22nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.80-5.90 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.75. Crane also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $5.80-5.90 EPS.

11 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Crane's shares. Their predictions range from $93.00 to $120.00. On average, they expect Crane's stock price to reach $108.1250 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.4% 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 2 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Crane.

Press coverage about CR stock has trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news 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 daily sentiment score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

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Crane's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Dudley & Shanley Inc. (0.32%), RPG Investment Advisory LLC (0.09%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.09%), Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (0.02%), Meeder Asset Management Inc. (0.02%) and Virtu Financial LLC (0.01%). Company insiders that own Crane stock include A D Pantaleoni, Augustus I Dupont, Bradley Ellis, Brendan Curran, Curtis A Baron Jr, E Thayer Bigelow, Edward S Switter, James A Lavish, James L L Tullis, Kristian Robert Salovaara, Louis V Pinkham, Max H Mitchell, Philip R Lochner, Richard A Maue and Thomas J Craney. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Crane.

CR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dudley & Shanley Inc., Oakbrook Investments LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System and RPG Investment Advisory LLC. Company insiders that have sold Crane company stock in the last year include Augustus I Dupont, Bradley Ellis, Brendan Curran, Curtis A Baron Jr, E Thayer Bigelow, Edward S Switter, James A Lavish, Kristian Robert Salovaara, Louis V Pinkham, Max H Mitchell and Richard A Maue. View Insider Buying and Selling for Crane.

CR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Meeder Asset Management Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Virtu Financial LLC. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $79.85.

Crane has a market capitalization of $4.68 billion and generates $2.79 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $171.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.53 on an earnings per share basis. Crane employs 10,600 workers across the globe.

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]