Crane Co (CR) Stock — Forensic Analysis, Red Flags & Rating | Stockonomy · Stockonomy
Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 11, 2026
Crane Co (CR)
A forensic read on Crane Co built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
C · Mixed — selective
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
13.1
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
5
Forensic signals
37.7
P / E (ttm)
17.8%
ROE
$12.7B
Market cap
0.46%
Dividend yield
8.2%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Crane Co earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 13.1, placing it in the Safe zone. 5 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+52.4%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +52.4% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 1% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
0.89×
FY2023–FY2025
Cash conversion.Over FY2023–FY2025, operating cash flow was 0.89× cumulative net income. Cash is lagging reported profit. The shortfall is profit tied up in working capital rather than collected — the accrual and receivables lines below show where.
11.3%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 11.3% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 0% — a modest positive spread over its ~9% cost of capital — growth adds value, though not dramatically.
+0.8%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share count.Diluted share count changed +2% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+0.8%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.
-46%
FY2022→FY2023
Dividend — cut.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$2.31B
Revenue Growth YoY+8.2%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+9.1%
Net Margin15.9%
Free Cash Flow$341.3M
Return on Equity17.8%
Debt / Equity0.56x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
The payout was CUT ~46% in FY2023 (from FY2022) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.