Crane NXT, Co. (CXT)
Payment devices and banknote security maker, 46% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 154 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
4,800
Leading staffing pattern
Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202729%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203036%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 64%
- Becomes checking a model's work 29%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing states 4,800 employees, 2,200 in the United States, making payment acceptance devices, banknote paper and authentication products with nothing counted by segment, so the split is by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 14% people work and 51% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 29% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states approximately 2,200 of 4,800 employees in the United States across 32 locations.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 4,800 persons worldwide, of which substantially all were full time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing | 50% | By description (c): the payment innovations segment makes coin and banknote acceptance devices for vending, retail and gaming, commercial machinery; the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills | 35% | By description (c): the security and authentication segment makes banknote paper and security substrates at its currency paper mills; no count by segment. |
| Converted Paper Product Manufacturing | 15% | By description (c): authentication labels, security threads and brand protection products are converted products made alongside the paper; no count by product line. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,800 in 35 countries, substantially all full-time; 2,200 in the United States at 32 locations; some employees abroad under works councils or collective bargaining; the headcount fell from 11,000 in 2022 as the company was separated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Middleby Corporation (MIDD, 8,826 employees)20% now, 40% by 2028
- Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI, 6,600 employees)33% now, 50% by 2028
- Tennant Company (TNC, 4,484 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI once, among the advances in criminal capabilities that may compromise its information technology security.
- “We cannot be certain that advances in criminal capabilities, including the use of artificial intelligence, new vulnerabilities or other developments will not compromise or breach the security solutions protecting our information technology, networks and systems.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 4,800 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,500 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,000 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 11,000 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 11,000 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 11,000 | 2021-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 13,000 | 2020-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 12,000 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 10,600 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 11,000 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 11,200 | 2016-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 11,300 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 11,500 | 2014-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 10,500 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,800 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,700 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,400 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,100 | 2009-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,200 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 12,000 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 10,400 | 2006-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 10,500 | 2005-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 10,000 | 2004-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 9,500 | 2003-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,200 | 2002-03-22 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,700 | 2001-03-13 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The data service's segment table (Engineered Materials 100%) belongs to the predecessor company and is not usable.
- No count by segment; the split between payment devices, currency paper and authentication products is by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000025445-26-000009, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Crane NXT, Co.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Crane NXT, Co.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Crane NXT, Co. employ?
- 4,800 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 46% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Crane NXT, Co.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 36% desk work, 14% people work and 51% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Crane NXT, Co.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 20, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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