Company Analysis

Crane Company (CR)

NYSE: CR · Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products · Stamford, CT · filing with the SEC since 2022
Grade5.9
◀ Past 5.4● Present 6.4▶ Future 5.9
1 est.

The grade of Crane Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past5.430% of the headline
● Present6.440% of the headline
▶ Future5.930% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2022.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Crane Company's filings since 2022 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
4.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2.8% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crane Company's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.1 billion in fiscal 2021 to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.8% a year; it rose in 3 of 4 years; the deepest fall was 14% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.8%bottom 28% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 44% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 33% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak13.9%bottom 39% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.3/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.8% a year. 19% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 3 sales, 6 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 6 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Crane Company's diluted share count grew about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 19% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 28% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 42% 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 · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
5.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 18%: 18¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 46%: owes 46¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Crane Company earned about 18 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 46 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 39% of its family
  • return on equitytop 28% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 50% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 39% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
8.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 17% of 9 in its family; net margin 15.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crane Company's standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 15.9% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of 9.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 6% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.31Btop 28% of its family
  • net margin15.9%top 17% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth9.1%top 6% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 50% of 7 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-02-07 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2023-02-07 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 7 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Crane Company's leadership is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 50% of 7 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2023-02-07 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 3.8 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 35% of 9 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 65th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Crane Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.7 billion against debt of $1.1 billion leaves 15.1% of its assets as net cash, top 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 17.1% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 42.2% (top 39%); research spending of 2.1% of revenue (bottom 44%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets15.1%top 28% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue17.1%top 17% of its family
  • gross margin42.2%top 39% of its family
  • research spending against revenue2.1%bottom 44% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 9 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Crane Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.1% a year over the last three filed years against 2.8% over all 5, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 8.2% (top 50%); research spending grew -0.3% a year (bottom 31%) (its annual reports). Crane Company reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Process Flow Technologies at $1.3 billion (55%), Aerospace and Electronics at $1.0 billion (46%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+6.2 points a yeartop 6% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth8.2%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-0.3%bottom 31% 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
4.6/10

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

bottom 46% of 9 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 46th percentile among 9 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Crane Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.2% below the $2.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 39% of its family); net income of $367 million against a prior three-year average of $317 million (top 50%); a net margin of 15.9% against 16.7% before (top 50%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-1.2%bottom 39% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+16%top 50% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.8 pointstop 50% 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 CR · research, not advice