Curtiss Wright Corp
Curtiss Wright Corp (CW) is listed on NYSE and classified in Aerospace & Defense, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Davidson, United States and has 9,200 employees. The company is worth $17.52B and trades at 34.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $3.5B in fiscal 2025, up 12.1% from the year before. Net income was $484.23M. The share price is 41.3% below its 52-week high of $808.16. It pays a dividend yielding 0.22%, and has raised its annual dividend for 9 years in a row in our records. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $410.39M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 4 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +299.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $4,000.06▲ +300.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $551.27 | $354.87 | $222.79 | $166.99 | $138.67 | $116.35 | $140.89 | $102.12 | $121.85 | $98.36 | $68.50 | $70.59 | $62.23 | $32.83 | $35.33 | $33.20 | $31.32 | $33.39 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 21.8% a year plus a 0.2% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 21.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDSNNordson Corp | $318.71 | 33.6x | 5.4x | 1.18% | 17.76% | $17.75B |
| JJacobs Solutions Inc | $146.26 | 47.3x | 5.2x | 0.98% | 8.00% | $17.12B |
| WWDWoodward, Inc. | $304.85 | 36.2x | 7.3x | 0.42% | 22.34% | $18B |
| CLHClean Harbors Inc | $320.96 |
| P/E | 21.8x | 42.8x | 33.6x | 24.2x | 21.9x | 21.4x | 24.2x | 19.7x | 16.4x | 25.4x | 23.7x | 22.5x | 30.6x | 21.6x | 13.6x | 13.1x | 15.0x | 15.1x | 13.9x |
| P/S | 2.0x | 5.8x | 4.3x | 3.0x | 2.5x | 2.1x | 2.0x | 2.4x | 1.8x | 2.4x | 2.1x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x | — |
| P/B | 2.9x | 8.0x | 5.5x | 3.7x | 3.2x | 2.9x | 2.7x | 3.4x | 2.9x | 3.5x | 3.4x | 2.4x | 2.3x | 1.9x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.4x | — |
| EPS | $12.87 | $10.55 | $9.20 | $7.62 | $6.47 | $4.80 | $7.15 | $6.22 | $4.80 | $4.15 | $3.05 | $2.31 | $2.88 | $2.41 | $2.69 | $2.21 | $2.08 | $2.41 |
| Dividend yield | 0.59% | 0.17% | 0.23% | 0.35% | 0.45% | 0.51% | 0.58% | 0.47% | 0.59% | 0.46% | 0.53% | 0.76% | 0.74% | 0.63% | 1.07% | 0.91% | 0.96% | 1.02% | 0.96% |
| Payout | 12.21% | 7.23% | 7.87% | 8.59% | 9.84% | 10.97% | 14.17% | 9.23% | 9.65% | 11.67% | 12.53% | 17.05% | 22.51% | 13.54% | 14.52% | 11.90% | 14.48% | 15.38% | 13.28% |
| Profit margin | 8.65% | 13.84% | 12.98% | 12.46% | 11.51% | 10.51% | 8.42% | 12.36% | 11.43% | 9.46% | 8.88% | 6.59% | 5.05% | 6.51% | 6.24% | 6.27% | 5.51% | 5.26% | 5.98% |
| ROE | 14.07% | 19.11% | 16.53% | 15.23% | 14.86% | 14.39% | 11.27% | 17.33% | 18.01% | 14.07% | 14.51% | 11.59% | 7.67% | 8.89% | 8.67% | 10.49% | 8.81% | 9.27% | — |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-27.8% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 15.56% |
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