Crane Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Crane in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Crane stock.
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Crane is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July 26th 2021.
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Crane Co. (NYSE:CR) issued its earnings results on Sunday, May, 2nd. The conglomerate reported $1.66 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.31 by $0.35. The conglomerate earned $833.50 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $771.33 million. Crane had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.81% and a net margin of 7.62%. Crane's revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.15 EPS.
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Crane's stock was trading at $57.82 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CR stock has increased by 49.8% and is now trading at $86.59.
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Crane announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 3rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.43 per share on Wednesday, June 9th. This represents a $1.72 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.99%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 27th.
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Crane pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.90%. Crane does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Crane is 44.79%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Crane will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.68% next year. This indicates that Crane will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Crane updated its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 15th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.650-5.850 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.780. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

4 analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Crane's stock. Their forecasts range from $73.00 to $110.00. On average, they anticipate Crane's share price to reach $94.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price.
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38 employees have rated Crane CEO Max H. Mitchell on Glassdoor.com. Max H. Mitchell has an approval rating of 59% among Crane's employees. This puts Max H. Mitchell in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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

Crane's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.12%), UBS Group AG (3.11%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.91%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.72%), Gamco Investors INC. ET AL (2.61%) and LSV Asset Management (2.48%). Company insiders that own Crane stock include Donald G Cook, James A Lavish, Kristian Robert Salovaara, Kurt F Gallo, Max H Mitchell and Richard A Maue.
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CR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Prudential Financial Inc., Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, UBS Group AG, Principal Financial Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., and LSV Asset Management. Company insiders that have sold Crane company stock in the last year include Donald G Cook, Kristian Robert Salovaara, Kurt F Gallo, and Richard A Maue.
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CR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alliancebernstein L.P., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Schroder Investment Management Group, BlackRock Inc., Royce & Associates LP, Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, and WCM Investment Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Crane stock in the last two years include Donald G Cook, and Max H Mitchell.
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One share of CR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $86.59.

Crane has a market capitalization of $5.06 billion and generates $2.94 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $181 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.84 on an earnings per share basis.

Crane employs 11,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Crane: "CPI-Kiev" LLC, ARDAC Inc., AeroHose, Alfa Laval - The Industrial Flow Group, Armature d.o.o., Automatic Products (UK) Ltd., Automatic Products international - Assets, B. Rhodes & Son Ltd., Barksdale GmbH, Barksdale Inc., CA-MC Acquisition UK Ltd., CR Holdings C.V., CashCode Co - Assets, Coin Controls International Ltd., Coin Holdings Ltd., Coin Industries Ltd., Coin Overseas Holdings Ltd., Coin Pension Trustees Ltd., Conlux Matsumoto Co. Ltd., Consolidated Lumber Co, Corva Corp, Crane (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd., Crane Aerospace Inc., Crane Australia Pty. Ltd., Crane Canada Co., Crane Composites Inc., Crane Composites Ltd., Crane Controls Inc., Crane Currency, Crane Electronics Corporation, Crane Electronics Inc., Crane Environmental Inc., Crane European Financing LLC, Crane Fengqiu Zhejiang Pump Co. Ltd., Crane Fluid & Gas Systems (Suzhou) Co. Ltd., Crane Global Holdings S.L., Crane GmbH, Crane Holdings (Germany) GmbH, Crane International Capital S.a.r.l., Crane International Holdings Inc., Crane International Trading (Beijing) Co. Ltd., Crane Ireland Ventures Designated Activity Company, Crane Ltd., Crane Merchandising Systems Inc., Crane Merchandising Systems Ltd., Crane Merger Co. LLC, Crane Middle East & Africa FZE, Crane Ningjin Valve Co. Ltd., Crane North America Funding LLC, Crane Nuclear Inc., Crane Overseas LLC, Crane Payment Innovations GmbH, Crane Payment Innovations Inc., Crane Payment Innovations International Ltd., Crane Payment Innovations Ltd., Crane Payment Innovations Pty Ltd., Crane Payment Innovations Sarl, Crane Payment Innovations Srl, Crane Pension Trustee Company (UK) Limited, Crane Process Flow Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd., Crane Process Flow Technologies GmbH, Crane Process Flow Technologies Ltd., Crane Process Flow Technologies S.P.R.L., Crane Process Flow Technologies S.r.l., Crane Pumps and Systems Inc., Crane Resistoflex GmbH, Crane SC Holdings Ltd., Crane Stockham Valve. Ltd., Crane Yongxiang (Ningbo) Valve Company Ltd., Croning Livarna d.o.o., Cummis-Allison Corp, Delta Fluid Products, Delta Fluid Products Ltd., Dixie Narco, Donald Brown (Brownall) Ltd., ELDEC Corporation, ELDEC Electronics Ltd., ELDEC France S.A.R.L, Edlon - PSI division, Environmental Products USA, Etex Group - Business, Flow Technology Inc., Friedrich Krombach GmbH Armaturenwerke, General Technology Corp., Hattersley Newman Hender - Assets, Hattersly Newman Hender Ltd., Hydro-Aire Inc., Inta-Lok Ltd., Interpoint S.A.R.L., Interpoint U.K. Limited, Kessel (Thailand) Pte. Ltd., Kontron America - Mobile Rugged Business, Laminated Profiles - Assets, Lasco Composites, Liberty Technologies, MCC Holdings Inc., MEI Australia LLC, MEI Auto Payment System (Shanghai) Ltd., MEI Conlux, MEI Conlux Holdings (Japan) Inc., MEI Conlux Holdings (US) Inc., MEI Payment Systems Hong Kong Ltd., MEI Queretaro S. de R.L. de CV, MEI de Mexico LLC, MOVATS - Nuclear Valve Division, Merrimac Industries, Merrimac Industries Inc., Mondais Holdings B.V., Money Controls, Money Controls Argentina SA, Money Controls Holdings Ltd., Multi-Mix Microtechnology SRL, NABIC Valve Safety Products Ltd., Nippon Conlux Co. Ltd., Noble Composites, Noble Composites Inc., Number One Supply, Owens Corning - FRP Panel Business, P.L. Porter, P.T. Crane Indonesia, Pegler Hattersly Ltd., Resistoflex, Sequentia Holdings, Signal Technology, Sperryn & Company Ltd., Stentorfield, Streamware, Telequip, Terminal Manufacturing Co., The Dow Chemical - Plastic-Lined Piping Products division, The Krombach Group, Triangle Valve Co. Ltd., Unidynamics / Phoenix Inc., Ventech Controls, Viking Johnson Ltd., W.T. Armatur GmbH, Wade Couplings Ltd., Wask Ltd., Westlock Controls, Xomox, Xomox Chihuahua S.A. de C.V., Xomox Corporation, Xomox Corporation de Venezuela C.A., Xomox France S.A.S., Xomox Hungary Kft., Xomox International GmbH & Co. OHG, Xomox Japan Ltd., Xomox Korea Ltd., Xomox Sanmar Ltd., and Yilme Holdings B.V..

Crane was founded in 1855.

The official website for Crane is www.craneco.com.

Crane is headquartered at 100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, STAMFORD CT, 06902.

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]