Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Rank #298HypergrowthCW · NYSE · Industrials
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (CW) — Rank #298 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.24) · ROE 17.5% · Piotroski F-Score 8 / 9.
As-of 2026-09-15 · CIK 0000026324 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.
About
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineered products, solutions, and services mainly to aerospace and defense, commercial nuclear power, process, and industrial markets worldwide.
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It operates through three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power. The Aerospace & Industrial segment offers industrial and specialty vehicle products, such as power management electronics, traction inverters, transmission shifters, and control systems; sensors, controls, and electro-mechanical actuation components used on commercial and military aircraft; and surface technology services including shot peening, laser peening, and engineered coatings. The Defense Electronics segment provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing board-level modules and processing equipment, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, tactical communications solutions; and electronic stabilization products, and weapons handling systems; avionics and electronics; flight test equipment; and aircraft data management solutions. The Naval & Power segment offers main coolant pumps, power-dense compact motors, generators, steam turbines, valves, and secondary propulsion systems; energy absorbers, retractable hook cable systems, net-stanchion systems and mobile systems to support fixed land-based arresting systems; hardware, valves, fastening systems, specialized containment doors, airlock hatches, and spent fuel management products; reactor coolant pumps and control rod drive mechanisms for commercial nuclear power plants, as well as various nuclear reactor technologies. This segment furnishes severe-service valve technologies and services, heat exchanger repair, and piping test and isolation products, and offers ship repair and maintenance for the U.S. navy.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina.
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Sector
- Industrials
- State
- DE
- Filer Category
- Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal Year End
- December 31
- Website
- curtisswright.com
Financials
Each fiscal year is read as-of that year’s own 10-K filing, so nothing restated after the fact leaks backwards. Line items this filer never tagged are omitted. Hover or tap a badge for the diagnostic behind it.
| Fiscal year end | 2020-12-31filed 2021-02-25 | 2019-12-31filed 2020-02-27 | 2018-12-31filed 2019-02-27 | 2017-12-31filed 2019-02-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating | ||||
| Depreciation & amortization | 115.9 | 102.4 | 102.9 | 100.0 |
| Stock-based compensation | 14.4 | 13.7 | 14.1 | 11.6 |
| Change in inventory | (15.5) | 3.5 | 41.2 | (19.7) |
| Operating cash flow | 261.2 | 421.4 | 336.3 | 388.7 |
| Investing | ||||
| Capital expenditures | 47.5 | 69.8 | 53.4 | — |
| Investing cash flow | (532.5) | (240.0) | (255.5) | (272.3) |
| Financing | ||||
| Debt issued | — | — | — | — |
| Debt repaid | — | 0.0 | 50.0 | 150.0 |
| Share repurchases | 200.0 | 50.7 | 198.6 | 52.1 |
| Dividends paid | 28.2 | 28.2 | 26.3 | 24.7 |
| Financing cash flow | 82.1 | (68.1) | (263.6) | (213.9) |
| Summary | ||||
| Free cash flow | 213.7 | 351.7 | 282.9 | 282.9 |
Figures are as originally filed with the SEC (point-in-time), not restated, so they can differ slightly from sites that show later-restated numbers. Why point-in-time?