CRS Fundamental Analysis & Score

Carpenter Technology Corporation Industrials Metal Fabrication
$377.09
Quote dated October 16, 2026
80/100
Strong Buy

What this score covers. It is a fixed screen of five reported ratios with no valuation input, so a company can score highly while its valuation risk remains elevated. The full report scores valuation separately, as one of nine scored sections. How the score is calculated

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Key Financial Metrics

Market Cap
$18.69B
P/E Ratio (TTM)
35.8x
P/E Forward
23.7x
Revenue Growth
12.6%
Gross Margin
30.6%
Net Margin
17.0%
Return on Equity
25.8%
Debt/Equity
0.33

Rule-Based Financial Screen Summary

Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) is a Industrials company in the Metal Fabrication industry. It has a 80/100 Strong Buy score on our five-factor fundamentals screen. Key strengths include Revenue Growth (12.6%), Net Margin (17.0%), Return on Equity (25.8%). The score is a five-factor screen — revenue growth, gross margin, net margin, return on equity and debt-to-equity — each scored against fixed thresholds from a neutral starting point of 50 points. The full report scores nine sections, including moat, free cash flow, dilution and valuation, which this screen does not.

Revenue Growth: Good Gross Margin: Average Net Margin: Good Return on Equity: Excellent Debt/Equity: Moderate

This page score and the strengths and concerns above are produced by deterministic, rule-based calculations from the available third-party financial inputs documented below. AI does not choose the score, strengths, or concerns. Data and automated summaries can contain errors. This is not personalized investment advice. See our methodology and disclaimer.

How this page score was calculated

The calculation starts at 50 points and applies the five fixed adjustments shown below. Missing or invalid inputs contribute no adjustment. A finite provider-reported zero is treated as a measured value and evaluated against that input's displayed threshold. The pre-clamp result is 80; the published result is clamped to a minimum of 10 and maximum of 98, producing 80/100.

CRS score inputs and fixed adjustments
Input Displayed value Threshold applied Adjustment Data status
Revenue Growth 12.6% > 10% to 20% +8 Available
Gross Margin 30.6% 35% or lower +2 Available
Net Margin 17.0% > 10% to 20% +6 Available
Return on Equity 25.8% > 20% +10 Available
Debt/Equity 0.33 0.30 to < 0.60 +4 Available

Score bands

80 or higher: Strong Buy; 65–79: Buy; 50–64: Hold; below 50: Caution.

These are fixed names for score ranges. The score is not a success probability, recommendation, or forecast, and 80/100 does not mean an 80% chance of a gain.

Not included in this score

  • Peer results or relative peer ranking
  • Demand zones or liquidity
  • Technical momentum
  • News or market sentiment
  • DCF valuation or the downloadable report score

Sources, freshness, and limitations

This page was generated . The provider identifies the latest underlying financial period as June 30, 2026. The displayed market quote is dated October 16, 2026. Generation time is not the same as the date of the underlying filing or market observation.

Financial inputs may be delayed, restated, differently standardized by the data provider, or unavailable. Missing, invalid, or non-finite values receive no positive or negative adjustment rather than being estimated. A finite provider-reported zero is retained and evaluated against that metric's displayed threshold; it is not treated as missing. This can make a sparse-data score less informative. The screen does not capture every business, market, valuation, or portfolio risk, and investors can lose money.

What the full CRS report adds

The 80/100 on this page comes from a fixed screen of 5 ratios. The downloadable report is a separate analysis with its own score, built from 9 weighted sections.

This page: fixed screen

  • Revenue Growth
  • Gross Margin
  • Net Margin
  • Return on Equity
  • Debt/Equity

Each factor is scored against fixed thresholds from a starting point of 50 points. No factor prices the stock, so valuation is not part of the 80/100.

Full report: 9 scored sections

  1. Business Moat weight 15 of 100
  2. Revenue Growth Consistency weight 14 of 100
  3. Margin Quality weight 12 of 100
  4. Free Cash Flow Strength weight 12 of 100
  5. Balance Sheet Safety weight 12 of 100
  6. Returns on Capital weight 12 of 100
  7. Dilution vs Self-Funded Growth weight 8 of 100
  8. Valuation vs Growth weight 10 of 100
  9. Structural vs Cyclical Growth weight 5 of 100

When the inputs allow, the report also shows a fair-value estimate with its discounted cash flow (DCF) assumptions and a 3×3 sensitivity table, a confidence figure, and the data limitations that reduced that confidence. Its headline label can add a valuation-risk flag next to the fundamental-quality rating.

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Supplementary Metrics for CRS

4 data points drawn from analyst targets, consensus estimates, and ownership data. These are supplementary observations, not event predictions or causal explanations:

The current provider record reports earnings growth of 46.4%.
The provider-reported analyst mean target is $536.25 (+42.2% from the displayed price), based on 8 estimates. This is third-party opinion, not a StrongBuyAnalytics target.
The provider-reported third-party analyst consensus category is Strong Buy; it is not a StrongBuyAnalytics recommendation.
The current provider record reports institutional ownership of 95.6%.

CRS Balance Sheet & Cash Flow

Carpenter Technology Corporation's liquidity and cash generation as of the most recent filing — note the cash position of $393.30M against $727.50M of debt:

Total Cash
$393.30M
Total Debt
$727.50M
Current Ratio
3.81
FCF Yield
1.3%
EBITDA
$826.10M
Operating Margin
24.1%

These are provider-normalized figures and may differ from the issuer's as-filed presentation, units, or latest amendment. Use source filings for verification.

CRS Valuation Snapshot

Trailing P/E
35.8x
Growth premium
Forward P/E
23.7x
Earnings growth expected
Price / Book
8.4x
High intangible value
PEG Ratio
1.59
Fairly valued
Analyst Target (Mean)
$536.25
Range: $430 – $620
Dividend Yield
0.21%
5Y avg: 0.49%
52-Week Price Range — CRS is trading at 36% of its range
$239.61 (52W Low) $625.99 (52W High)

Who Holds CRS? — Institutional 13F Filings

Institutional investment managers with >$100 M in qualifying assets must disclose their equity positions quarterly on SEC Form 13F — typically within 45 days of quarter-end. Search those filings below to see which hedge funds, mutual funds, and asset managers reported CRS as a holding, how many shares they held, and how positions changed quarter over quarter.

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Data limitation
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How to Interpret the CRS Fundamentals Score

CRS rates 80/100 on our five-factor fundamentals screen, which puts it in the "Strong Buy" band. The band name describes a fixed range in this model; it is not a recommendation or prediction. The calculation above shows how each reported input affected the result.

80/100 · Strong Buy band

Carpenter Technology Corporation clears our thresholds on most of what we measure. The strongest readings are revenue growth (12.6%) and net margin (17.0%). Nothing in the data we score currently works against it.

CRS Earnings & Revenue Outlook

Carpenter Technology Corporation reported revenue growth of 12.6% year over year, against a Metal Fabrication peer set where scale and pricing power vary widely. That is solid but not exceptional, so it lifts the score without dominating it.

Earnings grew 46.4% over the same period, outpacing revenue — a sign of operating leverage.

Track upcoming report dates on our earnings calendar.

CRS Fundamental Factors to Monitor

This is a review of reported fundamentals, not a price target or an estimate of future returns. These are the current figures that may be useful to monitor as new filings become available.

Current reading: Revenue growth of 12.6% is above the model's 10% threshold. Net margins of 17.0% show how much reported revenue currently converts to profit. Future filings may change either figure and the resulting score.

Positive Fundamental Inputs for CRS

These are the Carpenter Technology Corporation figures that push the score up, taken straight from the most recent reported financials:

  • Revenue Growth (12.6%)
  • Net Margin (17.0%)
  • Return on Equity (25.8%)

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Return on Equity (ROE)

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DCF Assumptions and Limitations

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Frequently Asked Questions about CRS

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