Core Molding Technologies (CMT)

Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals
$23.27 +1.13% on the day Market cap $200M 52-week range $16.60 to $28.69 Prices as of Oct 11, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
27% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $200M, Core Molding Technologies's free cash flow of $2M (fiscal 2025) would need to grow about 27% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is faster than the company has grown its free cash flow over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from Core Molding Technologies's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price26.9% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years-24.2% a year
Revenue, same period5.1% a year
Price to free cash flow104.1x

Fundamental grade

D

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from CMT's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation6
Profitability3
Growth0
Financial health6
Cash efficiency4

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from Core Molding Technologies's 10-K filings. Ten years of the full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.

Fiscal year20212022202320242025
Revenue$307M$377M$358M$302M$274M
Net income$5M$12M$20M$13M$11M
Free cash flow$977,000$2M$26M$24M$2M
EPS (diluted)$0.55$1.44$2.31$1.51$1.29
Operating margin3.6%4.8%7.4%5.5%5.2%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by products, fiscal 2025. Every breakdown, year by year.

Product sales$232M85%
Tooling sales$42M15%

Superinvestors who own CMT

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows).

None of the superinvestors we track held CMT in their latest 13F.

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by Core Molding Technologies's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you. Every purchase since records began.

DateInsiderSharesPriceValue
Mar 20, 2026 Eric Palomaki
400$20.05$8,020
Mar 19, 2026 Michael James Gayford
500$20.12$10,060

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In the full deep dive

DCF fair value per share
Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
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Questions

What growth does Core Molding Technologies's stock price imply?

At a market value of $200M, Core Molding Technologies would need its free cash flow to grow about 27% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew -24% a year.

Are Core Molding Technologies insiders buying the stock?

2 open-market insider purchases of CMT in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 11, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.