Company Analysis

Crown Holdings Inc. (CCK)

NYSE: CCK · Metal Cans · Tampa, FL · filing with the SEC since 2003
Grade5.6
◀ Past 5.8● Present 6.4▶ Future 4.1

The grade of Crown Holdings Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.6/10
◀ Past5.830% of the headline
● Present6.440% of the headline
▶ Future4.130% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.8/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 84th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+1.5% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 7 of 8.

weight 45% of this tense · 37th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $11 billion in fiscal 2018 to $12 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.5% a year; it rose in 3 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 16% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span1.5%bottom 32% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 19% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak15.8%top 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.4/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.6% a year. 26% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 11 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 64th percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Crown Holdings Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 26% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (8 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-29 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 23% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.4/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 21%: 21¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 76%: owes 76¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 34 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Crown Holdings Inc. earned about 21 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 26% of its family
  • return on equitytop 18% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.6/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 34% of 35 in its family; net margin 6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 66th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 6% ranks in the top 39%; revenue growth of -1.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 40% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$12.37Btop 4% of its family
  • net margin6.0%top 39% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-1.5%bottom 40% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.6/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 34% of 28 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2016.

weight 22% of this tense · 66th percentile among 28 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Donahue, Timothy J (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-01-05, 10.9 years (top 14% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.4 years (top 48%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 40%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge6 in three years among 18 peopletop 40% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.4 yearstop 48% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10.9 yearstop 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
2.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 25% of 32 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 25th percentile among 32 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $764 million against debt of $5.4 billion leaves -32.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 7% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9% of revenue (top 36%); research spending of 0.3% of revenue (bottom 3%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-32.5%bottom 7% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue9.0%top 36% of its family
  • research spending against revenue0.3%bottom 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 45% of 34 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.5% a year over the last three filed years against 1.5% over all 8, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew 4.8% (top 40%); research spending grew -1% a year (bottom 36%); capital spending grew -21% a year (bottom 26%) (its annual reports). Crown Holdings Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Metal Beverage Cans and Ends at $8.5 billion (69%), Transit Packaging at $2.0 billion (16%), Metal Food Cans and Ends at $943 million (8%), and 2 more; 2 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.0 points a yeartop 41% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.8%top 40% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-1.0%bottom 36% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-21.0%bottom 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.9/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 31% of 34 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 69th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Crown Holdings Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 9.7% above the $11 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 34% of its family); net income of $738 million against a prior three-year average of $534 million (top 34%); a net margin of 6% against 4.3% before (top 25%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace9.7%top 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+38%top 34% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.6 pointstop 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CCK · research, not advice