Crane NXT
CXT · Electronic Equipment & Instruments
$56.88
2.3%Keysight Technologies
KEYS · Electronic Equipment & Instruments
$314.77
1.0%The short version
- Keysight Technologies is the larger business, with $5.4B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $1.7B for Crane NXT, about 3.2 times as much.
- Crane NXT grew revenue faster (11.4%, against 8.0%).
- Keysight Technologies kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (16.3% operating margin, against 14.9% operating margin).
- Keysight Technologies turned more of its sales into free cash flow (23.8% FCF margin, against 12.0% FCF margin).
- Keysight Technologies earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (12.1%, against 10.4%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Keysight Technologies’s earnings: a P/E of 43.1x against 23.6x for Crane NXT.
| Latest fiscal year | CXT · FY25 | KEYS · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $3.3B | $54.5B |
| Revenue | $1.7B | $5.4B |
| Free cash flow | $198M | $1.3B |
| Net income | $145M | $850M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 11.4% | 8.0% |
| 5-year growth | — | 5.0% |
| Share count change | 0.4% | −1.1% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 42.5% | 62.1% |
| Operating margin | 14.9% | 16.3% |
| Net margin | 8.8% | 15.8% |
| FCF margin | 12.0% | 23.8% |
| Return on capital | 10.4% | 12.1% |
| Return on equity | 12.5% | 15.5% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $906M | $661M |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.6x | 0.6x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $39.0M | $375M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 23.6x | 43.1x |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 6 |
FY16
CXT —
KEYS $2.9B
FY17
CXT —
KEYS $3.2B
FY18
CXT —
KEYS $3.9B
FY19
CXT —
KEYS $4.3B
FY20
CXT —
KEYS $4.2B
FY21
CXT —
KEYS $4.9B
FY22
CXT —
KEYS $5.4B
FY23
CXT $1.4B
KEYS $5.5B
FY24
CXT $1.5B
KEYS $5.0B
FY25
CXT $1.7B
KEYS $5.4B
CXT
KEYS
FY16
CXT —
KEYS 13.9%
FY17
CXT —
KEYS 4.6%
FY18
CXT —
KEYS −10.2%
FY19
CXT —
KEYS 16.5%
FY20
CXT —
KEYS 18.1%
FY21
CXT —
KEYS 21.9%
FY22
CXT —
KEYS 24.6%
FY23
CXT 20.6%
KEYS 24.9%
FY24
CXT 18.1%
KEYS 16.7%
FY25
CXT 14.9%
KEYS 16.3%
CXT
KEYS
FY16
CXT —
KEYS $329M
FY17
CXT —
KEYS $256M
FY18
CXT —
KEYS $423M
FY19
CXT —
KEYS $878M
FY20
CXT —
KEYS $899M
FY21
CXT —
KEYS $1.1B
FY22
CXT —
KEYS $959M
FY23
CXT $245M
KEYS $1.2B
FY24
CXT $169M
KEYS $898M
FY25
CXT $198M
KEYS $1.3B
CXT
KEYS
FY16
CXT —
KEYS 20.5%
FY17
CXT —
KEYS 4.8%
FY18
CXT —
KEYS −12.4%
FY19
CXT —
KEYS 20.6%
FY20
CXT —
KEYS 19.3%
FY21
CXT —
KEYS 27.9%
FY22
CXT —
KEYS 31.4%
FY23
CXT —
KEYS 26.8%
FY24
CXT 14.4%
KEYS 13.0%
FY25
CXT 10.4%
KEYS 12.1%
CXT
KEYS
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