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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.93%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 29th. View Crane's Dividend History.

Crane Co. (NYSE:CR) issued its earnings results on Monday, July, 22nd. The conglomerate reported $1.58 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.55 by $0.03. The conglomerate had revenue of $841.60 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $833.30 million. Crane had a return on equity of 24.24% and a net margin of 10.67%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 1.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.41 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.

Crane updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Monday, July, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.25-6.45 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $6.41. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$3.3 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.33 billion.

11 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Crane's shares. Their forecasts range from $79.14 to $107.00. On average, they anticipate Crane's share price to reach $98.86 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.1% 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.

News headlines about CR stock have trended somewhat positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Crane earned a coverage optimism score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Crane.

Crane saw a decline in short interest in 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 volume of 298,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Currently, 0.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Crane's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Crane investors own include Intel (INTC), Celgene (CELG), Honeywell International (HON), Exxon Mobil (XOM), NVIDIA (NVDA), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Starbucks (SBUX), Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Texas Instruments (TXN) and CVS Health (CVS).

Crane's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Dudley & Shanley Inc. (0.38%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.26%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.07%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.03%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.03%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%). 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Dudley & Shanley Inc., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc., Capital Investment Advisory Services LLC, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and First Bank & Trust. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, 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 $80.97.

Crane has a market capitalization of $4.85 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]