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Curtiss-Wright CW
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 40% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading above our fair value estimate, 16% under its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $417.81−12%
- Market Value
- $565.87price −16%
- Off 52-wk high
- −40%
- Risk vs market
- Above marketbeta 1.38
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $476.01
- Fair value est.base case$417.81−12.2%
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$464.94−2.3%
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$476.01you are here
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 6$565.87+18.9%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$792.77+66.5%
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 11.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 9.0%; bull = 8.5% and 13.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, CW’s free cash flow would need to grow about 13% a year for five years; our estimate uses 11%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much CW moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings more than the market, and its own price swings are 2.8× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.38
- Volatility
- 36% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.50
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.46
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 22% to $12.87 in FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 20% over the last 12 months, up 4 points in two years.
ProfitabilityReturn on invested capital of 17%, above the 9.5% discount rate our DCF uses.
Cash returnsShare count down 2.1% in a year: $459M of buybacks over 12 months.
ValuationTrades 15.9% below its Market Value of $565.87, the average price paid since the Aug 6 filing.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $417.81, 12% below the price.
ProfitabilityGross margin of 38%, below the 59% median for the 151 Technology companies we cover.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 0.2%, below the 0.9% median for the 69 Technology companies we cover.
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 22.5×, above the 20.8× median for the 74 Technology companies we cover.
RiskReports earnings Nov 4 (consensus EPS $3.76): results can move the price sharply and reset Market Value.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Curtiss-Wright in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Industrial machinery
All fundamentals
P/E 32.6 · FCF yield 3.5% · ROE 20%
Valuation
- P/E
- 32.6×Technology median 33.9×
- Price / FCF
- 28.3×
- FCF yield
- 3.5%
- EV / EBITDA
- 22.5×
- Price / sales
- 4.84×
- Price / book
- 6.38×
- Market cap
- $17.7Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $18.1B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $3.7B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +10.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +11.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $14.53
- EPS growth, last FY
- +22.0%
- Net income, 12 months
- $541M
- Net income growth
- +20%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 37.7%
- Operating margin
- 18.8%
- Net margin
- 14.8%
- FCF margin
- 17.1%
- Return on equity
- 20%
- Return on invested capital
- 17%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $477M
- Total debt
- $957M
- Net cash
- −$480M
- Debt / equity
- 0.35×
- Interest coverage
- 16.2×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $625M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +24%
- Dividend yield
- 0.20%$36M paid
- Payout ratio
- 7%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $459M2.6% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- −2.1%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $25M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Curtiss-Wright’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
DCF $417.81 · MV $565.87 · FCF value $357.66
Assumes 11.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 11.0% a year FY22–FY25), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $16.85 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 34 · 5 days +2.4%
The business
FCF $0.6B · Sales +5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.6B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.0%
- Free-cash-flow margin15%
- Gross margin38%
- Operating margin19%
- Return on invested capital16%
- Return on equity20%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+5%
- Net debt / EBITDA0.8×
Next report
Nov 4
- DateWed Nov 4, after the close
- Consensus EPS$3.76
- Year-ago EPS$3.40
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
CW is outside our quality screen
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