How to buy Crown Crafts stock | $8.06

Crown Crafts, Inc is a textile manufacturing business based in the US. Crown Crafts shares (CRWS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Crown Crafts employs 138 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$76.8 million.

How to buy shares in Crown Crafts

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Crown Crafts. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CRWS. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Crown Crafts reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$8.06, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Crown Crafts, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Crown Crafts. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Crown Crafts share price

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Crown Crafts shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$8.06
52-week range	USD$3.9055 - USD$7.8547
50-day moving average	USD$7.2694
200-day moving average	USD$5.8204
Wall St. target price	USD$7
PE ratio	9.8352
Dividend yield	USD$0.32 (4.48%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.728

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Crown Crafts price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $8.06 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-07)	8.04%
1 month (2020-12-17)	13.84%
3 months (2020-10-16)	38.25%
6 months (2020-07-16)	71.86%

1 year (2020-01-16)	24.96%
2 years (2019-01-16)	41.90%
3 years (2018-01-16)	12.73%
5 years (2016-01-15)	8.2

Is Crown Crafts under- or over-valued?

Valuing Crown Crafts stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Crown Crafts's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Crown Crafts's P/E ratio

Crown Crafts's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 10x. In other words, Crown Crafts shares trade at around 10x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Crown Crafts's PEG ratio

Crown Crafts's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.19. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Crown Crafts's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Crown Crafts's EBITDA

Crown Crafts's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$10.6 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Crown Crafts's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Crown Crafts financials

Revenue TTM	USD$76.8 million
Operating margin TTM	11.98%
Gross profit TTM	USD$21.6 million
Return on assets TTM	9.7%
Return on equity TTM	16.78%
Profit margin	9.65%
Book value	$4.449
Market capitalisation	USD$71.4 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Crown Crafts shares

There are currently 4,218 Crown Crafts shares held short by investors – that's known as Crown Crafts's "short interest". This figure is 72.2% down from 15,193 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Crown Crafts shares can be evaluated.

Crown Crafts's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Crown Crafts's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Crown Crafts shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Crown Crafts shares traded daily (recently around 26362.5). Crown Crafts's SIR currently stands at 0.16. In other words for every 100,000 Crown Crafts shares traded daily on the market, roughly 160 shares are currently held short.

However Crown Crafts's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Crown Crafts shares, or, against the total number of tradable Crown Crafts shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Crown Crafts's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Crown Crafts shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0007% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Crown Crafts shares, roughly 1 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Crown Crafts.

Find out more about how you can short Crown Crafts stock.

Crown Crafts share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 67.12% of net profits

Recently Crown Crafts has paid out, on average, around 67.12% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.48% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Crown Crafts shareholders could enjoy a 4.48% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Crown Crafts's case, that would currently equate to about $0.32 per share.

Crown Crafts's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Crown Crafts's most recent dividend payout was on 31 December 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 10 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Crown Crafts's shares ever split?

Crown Crafts's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 12 January 1990. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Crown Crafts shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Crown Crafts shares which in turn could have impacted Crown Crafts's share price.

Crown Crafts share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Crown Crafts's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.9055 up to $7.8547. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Crown Crafts's is 0.9974. This would suggest that Crown Crafts's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Crown Crafts overview

Crown Crafts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the consumer products industry in the United States and internationally. It provides infant, toddler, and juvenile products, including infant and toddler beddings; blankets and swaddle blankets; nursery and toddler accessories; room décors; reusable and disposable bibs; burp cloths; hooded bath towels and washcloths; reusable and disposable placemats, and floor mats; disposable toilet seat covers and changing mats; developmental toys; feeding and care goods; and other infant, toddler, and juvenile soft goods. The company sells its products primarily to mass merchants, mid-tier retailers, juvenile specialty stores, value channel stores, grocery and drug stores, restaurants, internet accounts, and wholesale clubs through a network of sales force and independent commissioned sales representatives. Crown Crafts, Inc. was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Gonzales, Louisiana.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Crown Crafts is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 12.863% of Crown Crafts shares are held by insiders and 40.359% by institutions.

• How many people work for Crown Crafts?

  Latest data suggests 138 work at Crown Crafts.

• When does the fiscal year end for Crown Crafts?

  Crown Crafts's fiscal year ends in March.

• Where is Crown Crafts based?

  Crown Crafts's address is: 916 South Burnside Avenue, Gonzales, LA, United States, 70737

• What is Crown Crafts's ISIN number?

  Crown Crafts's international securities identification number is: US2283091005

• What is Crown Crafts's CUSIP number?

  Crown Crafts's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 228309100