Crescent Energy Company
boothcheck covers Crescent Energy Company (CRGY) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• Unusually for a stock this year, every standard family of valuation method lands above the current quote, and the share price sits below the $14.17 of book value behind each share. • The reason sits on the other side of the balance sheet: borrowings of about 5.23 billion dollars against 9.8 million dollars of liquid assets, roughly 8.58 times operating profit, with operating profit covering interest only about 1.9 times. • The business changed shape in December 2025 when the Vital Energy merge
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344 institutional managers reported holding CRGY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 91% of the company; the top 10 hold 61%. 55 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, KKR, among others. On the short side, 37.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 11% of shares outstanding (6.9 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 (4 and counting). Cash returned over the past three years: $239.65M in dividends and $45.15M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CRGY over the trailing three years: 2023: 20 buys totaling $822k; 2024: 10 buys totaling $467k; 2025: 4 buys totaling $327k. 21 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.
CRGY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-10 | +6.1% | -10.3% |
| 2023-11-07 | -12.2% | +10.8% |
| 2024-03-05 | +4.9% | -0.5% |
| 2024-05-07 | +12.3% | -0.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CRGY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-03 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-07-08 (items 2.02); 2026-05-22 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-09 (items 2.02).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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