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Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CRS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: +1.4% week · −1.8% month · −4.6% quarter · +7.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.69 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How CRS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.69 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Carpenter Technology Corporation moved 0.69% on average · correlation 0.13 · higher than 70% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.23 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.47% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.47% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Metal Fabrication · US · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Metal Fabrication · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelooknet universe; scored names rank on their Closelooknet score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against CRS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Carpenter Technology Corporation

CRS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Carpenter Technology makes and shapes specialty metals — titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless and tool steels, plus metal powders and finished parts — through two segments, Specialty Alloys Operations and Performance Engineered Products. It supplies aerospace, defence, medical, transportation, energy and industrial customers across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, and is based in Philadelphia.
Where it sits in the stack
Carpenter Technology holds no seat in our Rubin index. The diary places it in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, among specialty-metal and alloy makers whose output feeds structural and high-temperature parts rather than chips, servers or data-centre hardware.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Industrials names based in the US, including Nordson, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies, the last a direct specialty-alloy competitor the market also names.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
The diary watches aerospace and defence demand for titanium and powder-metal parts, since that end-market drives volume through the Specialty Alloys Operations segment.

Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials.

The Closelooknet company score reads 54/100 composite (momentum 33, quality 66, valuation 30) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.05%, annual · buybacks 179 m USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What CRS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.20 USD per share · a 0.05% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year −66.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.60 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.20 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-10-21
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.80 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 40 m USD 7% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 179 m USD 0.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.6% in FY2026 26 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 219 m USD · 61% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS)?

Carpenter Technology Corporation trades as CRS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is CRS in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Carpenter Technology Corporation is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

What is Carpenter Technology Corporation's Closelooknet composite score?

54 out of 100, with momentum 33, quality 66 and valuation 30 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CRS trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -16% vs the 50-day and -10.5% vs the 200-day average, 36.8% below the 52-week high and +69.7% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Carpenter Technology Corporation compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Metal Fabrication · US), Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS) sits 36.8% below its 52-week high, 16.0% below its 50-day average; Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) is 20.1% below, Commercial Metals Company (CMC) is 23.0% below. Put any of them next to CRS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Carpenter Technology Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Carpenter Technology Corporation had a beta of 0.69 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 70% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.47% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Carpenter Technology Corporation do?

Carpenter Technology makes and shapes specialty metals — titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless and tool steels, plus metal powders and finished parts — through two segments, Specialty Alloys Operations and Performance Engineered Products. It supplies aerospace, defence, medical, transportation, energy and industrial customers across the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas, and is based in Philadelphia. Closelooknet's peer group draws on scored Industrials names based in the US, including Nordson, Applied Industrial Technologies, Cintas, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies, the last a direct specialty-alloy competitor the market also names.

Where does Carpenter Technology Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Carpenter Technology holds no seat in our Rubin index. The diary places it in the Industrials sector of our wider universe, among specialty-metal and alloy makers whose output feeds structural and high-temperature parts rather than chips, servers or data-centre hardware. It carries a Closelooknet score, with quality the strongest module and valuation the weakest. It holds no index seat and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

Does Carpenter Technology Corporation pay a dividend?

Carpenter Technology Corporation has paid 0.20 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.05% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.20 USD on 2025-10-21. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 40 m USD in dividends and bought back 179 m USD of its own shares, 61% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.6% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CRS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Metal Fabrication, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.