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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-174450"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRS"
cik: "0000017843"
company_name: "CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T19:44:48.334911+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carpenter Tech Q4 op income $151.4M, record FY adj op income $525.4M; FY26 guidance $660-700M

## Summary
- Q4 adjusted op income $151.4M (record quarterly), up 21% YoY; EPS $2.21.
- SAO segment op income $167.0M, adj margin 30.5% (up from 29.1% prior quarter).
- FY2025 adjusted op income $525.4M (most profitable ever), up 48% YoY; adj free cash flow $287.5M.
- FY2026 op income guidance $660-700M, up 26-33% from FY2025; Q1 FY26 guidance $148-152M.
- Executed $101.9M in stock buybacks and $40.3M in dividends during FY2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-174450
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRS
- cik: 0000017843
- company_name: CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17843/000119312525174450/0001193125-25-174450-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17843/000119312525174450/d80170d8k.htm

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