secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORP (CRS)
CIK:        0000017843
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-25-174450
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17843/000119312525174450/0001193125-25-174450-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/17843/000119312525174450/d80170d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-174450

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