CRANE COMPANY
At today's price, CRANE COMPANY (CR) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~8.1 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- Crane Company is a focused industrial built around two engines: Aerospace and Advanced Technologies (commercial and military original equipment plus high-margin aftermarket) and Process Flow Technologies (industrial valves and pumps). It is in a growth phase, compounding through both core gains and acquisitions. - The trajectory is strong. Q1 2026 net sales rose 24.9% to $696.4 million, largely on recently closed deals, with adjusted EPS up 15% to $1.65 on 4% core growth. Management raised ful
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543 institutional managers reported holding CR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 73% of the company; the top 10 hold 35%. 78 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Capital Group (American Funds), among others. On the short side, 1.6M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (2.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (5 and counting); the current rate is $0.92 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $242.10M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CR over the trailing three years: 2026: 5 buys totaling $987k. 12 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-02 | +11.8% | +16.0% |
| 2024-02-27 | +8.8% | +13.7% |
| 2024-05-02 | +1.4% | +2.8% |
| 2024-08-01 | -4.6% | +0.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-04-27 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-04-27 (items 5.07); 2026-04-27 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-29 (items 5.02); 2026-01-26 (items 2.02, 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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