Crane Co (NYSE: CR) Not A Good Play Anymore?

Crane Co (CR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $178.40, with 0.43 million shares of worth about $76.39 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 8.14% during that period and on June 18, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -0.31%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 57.50M shares, out of which, 56.93M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -4.40% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.26%. Year-to-date (YTD), CR shares are showing a performance of 17.56% which increased to 27.70% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $127.04 but also hit the highest price of $191.00 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Crane Co shares is 350.72K. The stock is currently trading 0.71% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 7.95% for SMA50 and it goes to 10.19% higher than SMA200.

Crane Co (NYSE: CR) currently have 57.50M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.57% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.26B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.24. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 34.56, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.16 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.47 and has Quick Ratio of 1.49 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.15. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CR, volatility over the week remained 1.55% while standing at 1.72% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 13.67% while it is estimated to increase by 14.28% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 14.02% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 18.11% made by the stock over the past 5-years.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by UBS on April 29, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $190 to it. Coverage by Stifel stated Crane Co (CR) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on November 18, 2024, suggesting a price target of $176 for the stock. On April 24, 2024, Vertical Research Upgrade their recommendations, while on November 20, 2023, Vertical Research Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $110. Stock get a Market outperform rating from CJS Securities on October 30, 2023.

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