NYSE:CR - Crane Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Crane announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 23rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 31st will be given a dividend of $0.35 per share on Friday, June 8th. This represents a $1.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.66%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 30th. View Crane's Dividend History.

Crane Co. (NYSE:CR) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The conglomerate reported $1.31 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.27 by $0.04. The conglomerate earned $799 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $802.47 million. Crane had a return on equity of 21.08% and a net margin of 6.09%. Crane's revenue was up 18.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $1.05 earnings per share. View Crane's Earnings History.

Crane is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 23rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Crane.

Crane issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Monday, April, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.45-5.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.52.

14 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Crane's stock. Their forecasts range from $95.00 to $120.00. On average, they anticipate Crane's stock price to reach $107.25 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for Crane.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Crane in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

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News coverage about CR stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Crane earned a coverage optimism score of 0.14 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the conglomerate an impact score of 45.61 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Crane's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.21%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.05%), Sit Investment Associates Inc. (0.05%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.05%), New England Research & Management Inc. (0.03%) and Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC (0.03%). 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, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Bank of Montreal Can, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan and Radnor Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Crane company stock in the last year include A D Pantaleoni, Augustus I Dupont, Brendan Curran, E Thayer Bigelow, Edward S Switter, James A Lavish, James L L Tullis and Kristian Robert Salovaara. View Insider Buying and Selling for Crane.

CR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Hartford Investment Management Co., New England Research & Management Inc., State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Retirement Systems of Alabama and Sit Investment Associates Inc.. 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 $84.36.

Crane has a market capitalization of $5.04 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.

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]