Crane Company (CR) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Crane Company published the results on October 27, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Crane Company reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and adjusted EPS from continuing operations, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• Crane Company completed the acquisitions of Druck, Panametrics and Reuter-Stokes from Baker Hughes, and of optek-Danulat, on January 1, 2026. Acquisitions contributed 21.1 percentage points of the 28.1% sales growth.
• The Aerospace & Advanced Technologies segment was called Aerospace & Electronics in Crane's Q3 2025 release.
• Crane's EPS figures here are from continuing operations; Q3 2026 and Q3 2025 had no discontinued operations, so total diluted EPS was the same.

Source: Crane Company Q3 2026 results, October 27, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Crane Company splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Crane Company's Aerospace & Advanced Technologies revenue was $344 million in Q3 2026, up 27% from $270 million in Q3 2025, 46% of total revenue.
• Crane Company's Process Flow Technologies revenue was $411 million in Q3 2026, up 29% from $319 million in Q3 2025, 54% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

In its Q3 2026 release, Crane Company said:

“We are raising and narrowing our full-year adjusted EPS outlook to $7.23-$7.38 from $6.85-$7.05.”

“Total sales are expected to increase approximately 26% at the midpoint, supported by acquisition contributions and core sales growth that are now both expected to perform at the high end of their respective previous guidance ranges of 18% to 20% and 5% to 6%.”

“Adjusted segment operating margin of approximately 24.0%, up from our prior view of 23.0%+.”

“Adjusted tax rate of approximately 23.0%.”

Source: Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 27, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the CR forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP net sales and diluted EPS from continuing operations, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

Crane Company's next report is expected around January 25, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 27, 2026

Crane Company's Q3 2026 net sales were $754.6 million, up 28.1% from $589.2 million. Core sales growth was 7.7%, acquisitions added 21.1% and foreign exchange took away 0.4%. Process Flow Technologies brought in $410.5 million and Aerospace & Advanced Technologies $344.1 million. On January 1, 2026 Crane bought the Druck, Panametrics and Reuter-Stokes brands from Baker Hughes, and optek-Danulat. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026; Crane Company Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 26, 2026)

Aerospace & Advanced Technologies grew 27.4%, with 9.5% core growth and 17.9% from the Druck acquisition. Commercial Original Equipment sales rose 38.5% to $137.8 million on Druck and strong demand from aircraft manufacturers, and Military Aftermarket Products rose 19.0% to $32.0 million. Commercial Aftermarket Products fell 5.1% to $63.6 million because the prior year had higher aircraft initial provisioning. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026; Crane Company Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026)

Process Flow Technologies grew 28.7%, with 6.2% core growth and 23.9% from the Panametrics, Reuter-Stokes and optek-Danulat acquisitions. Process Valves and Related Products, the largest product line at $321.2 million, rose 34.8%; Commercial Valves rose 9.2% to $41.7 million and Pumps and Systems 11.7% to $47.6 million. Crane said PFT core orders grew 19.7%. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026; Crane Company Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026)

Total backlog was $1,894.9 million at September 30, 2026, against $1,437.1 million a year earlier; $112.8 million of the Aerospace & Advanced Technologies backlog and $224.0 million of the Process Flow Technologies backlog came with the acquisitions. Excluding acquisitions and currency, Crane said core backlog rose 9%. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026)

Crane Company's GAAP diluted EPS from continuing operations rose to $1.66 from $1.56 in Q3 2026, and adjusted EPS from continuing operations rose 23% to a record $2.05. Adjusted EPS excludes $12.6 million of transaction related expenses ($0.21 a share), $15.9 million of acquisition-related intangible amortization ($0.27), pension non-service costs and net tariff refunds, less the tax effect. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026)

GAAP EPS grew more slowly than sales because of the acquisition financing. Interest expense rose to $13.7 million from $1.0 million, and amortization rose to $15.9 million from $3.4 million. Operating margin was 18.6%, down 150 basis points, while adjusted operating margin rose 130 basis points to 22.5%. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026)

Average diluted shares were 58.8 million, against 58.6 million, and Crane made no open-market share repurchases in the quarter. The effective tax rate was 22.9%, down from 24.1% because of a higher benefit from share-based compensation. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026; Crane Company Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Crane Company gives full-year guidance in its release. In Q3 2026 it raised its 2026 adjusted EPS outlook to $7.23-$7.38 from $6.85-$7.05, and expects total sales to rise about 26% at the midpoint, with acquisition contributions and core growth at the high end of earlier ranges of 18% to 20% and 5% to 6%. It assumes adjusted segment operating margin of about 24.0%, an adjusted tax rate of about 23.0% and about 59 million diluted shares. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026)

Crane agreed to sell Crane Building Services & Utilities for £230 million, expected to close early in 2027, and to buy the U.S. water and wastewater pump business of Trillium Flow Technologies, expected to close in Q4 2026. (Crane Company Q3 2026 release, Oct 27, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Crane Company, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Crane Company's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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