QualityDipStocks / Industrials · Metal Fabrications
Crane NXT CXT
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 6% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate, 18% over its Market Value.
- Fair value est.
- $78.08+29%
- Market Value
- $51.55price +18%
- Off 52-wk high
- −6%
- Risk vs market
- Above marketbeta 1.19
5 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Near its high
The price is 6% below its 52-week high (Nov 5), but the business held up: revenue +14.2%, revenue growth rate +8.0 pts, free cash flow +29.8%.
Some numbers held up (revenue +14.2%, revenue growth rate +8.0 pts, free cash flow +29.8%), others slipped (net cash (cash minus debt) −9.2% of market cap since the high, earnings per share −9.3%). The price is 6% below its 52-week high.
The price is 6% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too: net cash (cash minus debt) −9.2% of market cap since the high, earnings per share −9.3%.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($64.20, Nov 5) the price assumed about 8%/yr free-cash-flow growth; at the low ($36.13, Jun 5) about −5%; today about 3%. The last 3 years delivered −11%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, −11%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $64.20Nov 5 | $36.13Jun 5 | $60.62 |
| Implied growth | +8% | −5% | +3% |
| P/E | 24.1× | 16.1× | 25.1× |
| P/FCF | 21.6× | 10.2× | 15.7× |
| EV/Sales | 2.9× | 2.0× | 2.6× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
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 7.3% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 5.3%; bull = 8.5% and 9.3% (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, CXT’s free cash flow would need to grow about 3% a year for five years; our estimate uses 7%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much CXT 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 3.0× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.19
- Volatility
- 38% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.40
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.32
How it ranks
Where CXT stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Not in the top quarter on any of these 6 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate29% · price below our base caseTop 30%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield6.4% · free cash flow vs market capTop 28%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield1.1% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 31%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months+17% · vs the 12 months beforeTop 30%of 1,814
- Operating margin14% · of sales kept as operating profitTop 43%of 1,288
- Return on invested capital8.1% · profit per dollar of capitalLowest 39%of 838
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $78.08 · MV $51.55 · FCF value $103.92
Assumes 7.3% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 7.3% a year FY22–FY25), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $3.86 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026. Net debt $1.2B, not deducted.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 5 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $78.08, 29% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 6.4% (price / FCF 15.7×): $224M of free cash in the last 12 months.
Cash returnsFree cash flow grew 52% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before.
GrowthSales grew 17% to $1.8B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 12.5×, below the 15.4× median for the 159 Industrials companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
GrowthSales shrank 21% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
Balance sheetDebt rose 77% to $1.1B from FY2023 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 14.9% in FY2025 from 20.6% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
ValuationTrades 17.6% above its Market Value of $51.55, the average price paid since the Aug 5 filing.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%.
All fundamentals
P/E 25.1 · FCF yield 6.4% · ROE 11%
Valuation
- P/E
- 25.1×Industrials median 26.5×
- Price / FCF
- 15.7×
- FCF yield
- 6.4%
- EV / EBITDA
- 12.5×
- Price / sales
- 1.95×
- Price / book
- 2.78×
- Market cap
- $3.5Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- $4.7B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.8B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +17.3%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- −21.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $2.42
- EPS growth, last FY
- −21.6%
- Net income, 12 months
- $140M
- Net income growth
- −7%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 42.1%
- Operating margin
- 14.0%
- Net margin
- 7.8%
- FCF margin
- 12.4%
- Return on equity
- 11%
- Return on invested capital
- 8%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $231M
- Total debt
- $1.5B
- Net cash
- −$1.2B
- Debt / equity
- 1.15×
- Interest coverage
- n/ainterest expense not tagged in SEC data
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $224M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- +52%
- Dividend yield
- 1.14%$40M paid
- Payout ratio
- 29%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +0.2%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $26M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Crane NXT’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.
The business
FCF $0.2B · Sales +22%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.2B
- Free-cash-flow yield6.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin13%
- Gross margin42%
- Operating margin16%
- Return on invested capital9%
- Return on equity12%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+22%
- Net debt / EBITDA2.9×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $60.62
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$36.13−40.4%
- Market Valueavg paid since Aug 5$51.55−15.0%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$60.62you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$64.20+5.9%
- Fair value est.base case$78.08+28.8%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 71 · 5 days +6.5%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
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.
Next report
Nov 4
- DateWed Nov 4, after the close
- Consensus EPS$1.20
- Year-ago EPS$1.28
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
CXT is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Crane NXT in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
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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.