profit from every $100 of sales.

Crown Holdings
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
You pay $17.80 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
Money in, money out
What Crown Holdings sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $12.9 billion in 2022 to $12.4 billion in 2025, with $738 million of profit last year.
Crown Holdings handed back 56% of the cash it generated last year.
Crown Holdings vs. similar companies
Crown Holdings grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
Crown Holdings | 17.8× · Fair price | ||
Packaging Corporation of America | 28.9× · Fair price | ||
Smurfit Westrock | 31.8× · Expensive | ||
Amcor | 18.3× · Fair price | ||
International Paper | No profit yet |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Crown Holdings's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,392 | 11,394 | 12,943 | 12,010 | 11,801 | 12,365 | |
| – | – | 2,300 | 2,464 | 2,539 | 2,724 | |
| – | – | 1,284 | 1,383 | 1,494 | 1,636 | |
| – | – | 1,800 | 1,730 | 1,643 | 2,014 | |
| 579 | -560 | 727 | 450 | 424 | 738 | |
| 4.30 | -4.30 | 5.99 | 3.76 | 3.55 | 6.38 | |
| – | – | 17.8% | 20.5% | 21.5% | 22.0% | |
| – | – | 9.9% | 11.5% | 12.7% | 13.2% | |
| 6.2% | -4.9% | 5.6% | 3.7% | 3.6% | 6.0% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 16,691 | 13,858 | 14,301 | 15,034 | 13,848 | 14,272 |
| Cash | 1,173 | 531 | 550 | 1,310 | 918 | 764 |
| Total debt | 8,326 | 6,412 | 7,210 | 7,694 | 6,418 | 6,170 |
| Total liabilities | – | – | 12,014 | 12,170 | 10,620 | 10,792 |
| 2,198 | 1,912 | 1,849 | 2,410 | 2,756 | 2,999 | |
| 135 | 130 | 121 | 120 | 119 | 116 | |
| 7.6% | -1.6% | 11.7% | 9.6% | 10.3% | 13.4% | |
| 26.3% | -29.3% | 39.3% | 18.7% | 15.4% | 24.6% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,315 | 905 | 803 | 1,453 | 1,192 | 1,530 | |
| 554 | 816 | 839 | 793 | 403 | 413 | |
| 761 | 89 | -36 | 660 | 789 | 1,117 | |
| Dividends paid | 0 | 105 | 106 | 115 | 119 | 120 |
| 66 | 950 | 722 | 12 | 217 | 505 | |
| 32 | 33 | 29 | 31 | 42 | 48 |
Valuation
- 17.8×
- 15.0×
- 2.17
- 3.8×
- 1.1×
- 11.8×
- 9.2×
- 8.5%
- 5.6%
- 1.1%
Profitability
- 22.0%
- 13.2%
- 6.0%
- 16.2%
- 11.1%
- 3.7%
- 24.3%
- 5.0%
- 16.0%
- –
Growth
- +5.7%
- +8.2%
- +39.2%
- –
- −5.4%
Financial health
- 2.8×
- 2.22
- 45.2%
- 4.1×
- 1.12
- 0.70
- 0.89
How it ranks in Consumer Discretionary
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $120.50
- Range
- $115.00 – $126.00
- 2 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2026 | 1.86 | 1.75 | +6.3% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 1.74 | 1.69 | +3.0% |
| Oct 20, 2025 | 2.24 | 1.98 | +13.1% |
| Jul 21, 2025 | 2.15 | 1.88 | +14.4% |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 1.67 | 1.24 | +34.7% |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 1.59 | 1.51 | +5.3% |
| Oct 17, 2024 | 1.99 | 1.81 | +9.9% |
| Jul 22, 2024 | 1.81 | 1.58 | +14.6% |
Paid per share, each year
$0.80 in 2021 → $1.04 in 2025
How safe it looks
16.3% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 10.7%
News
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Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Questions about Crown Holdings
Is Crown Holdings a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Crown Holdings AI analysis
What does Crown Holdings do?
Crown Holdings, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells packaging products and equipment for consumer goods and industrial products in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It is in Packaging & Containers, based in Tampa, FL, United States, with 23,000 employees.
Does Crown Holdings pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 1.1% a year, about 16% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $120 million in dividends.
Is Crown Holdings stock halal?
No. Crown Holdings does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 47% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Crown Holdings stock done over the past year?
Up 20.4% over the past twelve months, to $121.57. It traded between $92.04 and $124.78 and is 2.6% below its high.
Who are Crown Holdings's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Packaging Corporation of America, Smurfit Westrock, Amcor and International Paper. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Crown Holdings's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.



