Stocks · Industrials · Industrial - Machinery
Columbus McKinnon Corporation CMCO
$16.74 +5.02% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NASDAQ · Market cap $482.5M
Expensive vs sectorHigh risk
Next earnings report: Oct 29, 2026
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Three things to know
- Revenue over the last four quarters was $1.49B, up 55.2% from a year earlier, accelerating from 23.9% a quarter earlier.
- Operating margin narrowed to -3.1% from 4.1% a year earlier.
- The stock is 28% below its highest close of the past year.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Industrials sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Top 7%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 2%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRTop 34%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 3%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 24%
- Gross marginTop 49%
- Operating marginBottom 18%
- Accruals (lower is better)Top 46%
- Interest coverBottom 22%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldBottom 4%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 7%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueBottom 16%
- Sales / enterprise valueTop 46%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthTop 41%
- 6-month returnTop 28%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Top 44%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 38%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Top 42%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersTop 19%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 39%
- Share of analysts rating BuyTop 9%
- Upside to consensus price targetBottom 8%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Bottom 8%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsBottom 18%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Bottom 24%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 23.9% | 55.2% | ↑ |
| Gross margin | 32.7% | 28.8% | ↓ |
| Operating margin | 4.1% | -3.1% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | 1.9% | -8.2% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 55.2% | 23.9% | ↑ | Top 7% |
| Gross margin | 28.8% | 32.7% | ↓ | Top 49% |
| Operating margin | -3.1% | 4.1% | ↓ | Bottom 18% |
| Net margin | -21.2% | -1.6% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -8.2% | 1.9% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | -1.1% | — | Bottom 24% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 8.4% | — | Top 34% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -4.6%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 0.7%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +52.0 pp
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- -0.5×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 1.67%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -161.86%
- Shareholder yield
- -160.20%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +0.5%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- -0.1%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Jul 30, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 1
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 5 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- +26.6%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +3.2%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 3 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $17.00
- Target vs current price
- +1.6%
- Analysts with a rating
- 11
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 91%
- Consensus rating
- Buy
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | +123.9% | +41.5% | +47.1% | +23.0% | — |
| Jun 4, 2026 | -33.8% | -9.2% | -21.9% | -12.6% | +16.1% |
| Feb 9, 2026 | +1.6% | +0.6% | -10.7% | -26.7% | -32.7% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | +14.8% | +15.3% | +5.0% | +9.8% | +37.9% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | +6.4% | -14.1% | -15.4% | -9.7% | -12.2% |
| May 28, 2025 | +3.4% | -11.8% | -16.2% | -17.7% | -21.6% |
| Feb 10, 2025 | -24.3% | +3.6% | -40.2% | -48.4% | -55.6% |
| Oct 30, 2024 | +0.0% | -0.3% | +4.3% | +20.6% | +13.4% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $0.61 | $0.27 | +123.9% | $531.5M |
| Jun 4, 2026 | $0.24 | $0.36 | -33.8% | $437.8M |
| Feb 9, 2026 | $0.62 | $0.61 | +1.6% | $258.7M |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $0.62 | $0.54 | +14.8% | $261.0M |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $0.50 | $0.47 | +6.4% | $235.9M |
| May 28, 2025 | $0.60 | $0.58 | +3.4% | $246.9M |
| Feb 10, 2025 | $0.56 | $0.74 | -24.3% | $234.1M |
| Oct 30, 2024 | $0.70 | $0.70 | +0.0% | $242.3M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (forward) | 8.3× | — | — | — |
| EV / Sales | 1.85× | — | — | Top 46% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -25.44% | — | — | Bottom 7% |
| Earnings yield | -65.71% | — | — | Bottom 4% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 17.4× – 210.2× since Jun 30, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✓ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✓ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✓ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- +5.9%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- +0.2%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -5.6%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -0.5%
- RSI (14)
- 49.8
- Relative volume
- 0.83×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 91.2%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 92th percentile · High for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 1.53
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.40
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -28.1%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -73.5%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2021 | Jun 10, 2026 | -78.0% | 1273 days | Not yet recovered |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Nov 4, 2020 | -11.2% | 10 days | 8 days (Nov 16, 2020) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $482.5M
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- -$11.00
- Revenue (TTM)
- $1.49B
- Dividend yield
- 1.67%
- 52-week range
- $11.99 – $24.40
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $906.6M | $936.2M | $1.01B | $963.0M | $1.19B |
| Gross profit | $315.7M | $342.1M | $374.8M | $325.7M | $359.4M |
| Operating income | $73.8M | $97.8M | $107.1M | $54.6M | -$22.6M |
| Net income | $29.7M | $48.4M | $46.6M | -$5.1M | -$229.5M |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.04 | $1.68 | $1.61 | -$0.18 | -$7.40 |
| Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | Q4 2026 | Q1 2027 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $242.3M | $234.1M | $246.9M | $235.9M | $261.0M | $258.7M | $437.8M | $531.5M |
| Net income | -$15.0M | $4.0M | -$2.7M | -$1.9M | $4.6M | $6.0M | -$238.2M | -$88.7M |
| EPS (diluted) | -$0.52 | $0.14 | -$0.09 | -$0.07 | $0.16 | $0.21 | -$8.29 | -$3.08 |
| FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $48.9M | $83.6M | $67.2M | $45.6M | -$146.2M |
| Capital expenditure | -$13.1M | -$12.6M | -$24.8M | -$21.4M | -$17.9M |
| Free cash flow | $35.8M | $71.0M | $42.4M | $24.2M | -$164.1M |
| Dividends paid | -$6.6M | -$8.0M | -$8.0M | -$8.0M | -$8.0M |
| Net share buybacks | $209.7M | -$288,000 | $1.6M | -$9.6M | $781.0M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $98.4M
- Total assets
- $4.67B
- Total liabilities
- $3.31B
- Total debt
- $2.38B
- Net debt
- $2.28B
- Shareholders’ equity
- $1.37B
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Jul 30, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2026 | $0.07 | Aug 17, 2026 |
| May 1, 2026 | $0.07 | May 11, 2026 |
| Feb 13, 2026 | $0.07 | Feb 23, 2026 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | $0.07 | Nov 17, 2025 |
| Aug 8, 2025 | $0.07 | Aug 18, 2025 |
| May 2, 2025 | $0.07 | May 12, 2025 |
| Feb 7, 2025 | $0.07 | Feb 18, 2025 |
| Nov 8, 2024 | $0.07 | Nov 18, 2024 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 2,277,992
- Days to cover
- 5.99
- Change vs previous report
- -0.7%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.