{"id":623938,"date":"2026-09-22T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623938\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:16:13","slug":"this-security-technology-stock-has-an-underappreciated-edge-jefferies-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623938\/","title":{"rendered":"This security technology stock has an &#8216;underappreciated&#8217; edge, Jefferies says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crane NXT &#8216;s advantages in security technology seem &#8220;underappreciated&#8221; by investors, making now a good time to scoop up shares, according to Jefferies. The investment firm initiated coverage of the security tech stock with a buy rating. It also put a $60 price target on shares, implying 31% upside from Monday&#8217;s close. &#8220;Crane NXT combines a 150-yr legacy currency banknote printing franchise with proprietary authentication tech, advanced manufacturing capabilities, and growing exposure to higher-growth industrial &amp; security markets, creating a path to durable [mid-single-digit] organic growth,&#8221; analyst Stephen Volkmann said Tuesday in a note to clients. &#8220;CXT benefits from high barriers to entry that we think are underappreciated by investors.&#8221; He noted that Crane NXT has transformed itself into more than just a banknote security provider over the past three years, expanding its total addressable market to roughly $13 billion from about $7 billion through a series of acquisitions. That should make its stock more appealing to investors, he added. &#8220;The portfolio boosts exposure to faster-growing end-markets, including food &amp; beverage and pharma, while benefiting from secular trends, [including] supply chain digitization and emerging market growth,&#8221; Volkmann wrote. Of the seven analysts covering Crane NXT, six have a buy or strong buy rating on the stock, while one has a hold on it, LSEG data shows. Shares have edged down nearly 3% in 2026.\u00a0However, they gained more than 1% in the premarket following Jefferies&#8217; call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crane NXT &#8216;s advantages in security technology seem &#8220;underappreciated&#8221; by investors, making now a good time to scoop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,357,46553,210299,85,942,46,1760],"class_list":["post-623938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-co","tag-crane-nxt","tag-il","tag-investment-strategy","tag-israel","tag-stock-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}