Insider buying last 90 days
$95Kin 1 open-market purchase
| Filed | Insider | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8 | James D Hope Director | Purchase | $95K |
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
NYSE: CNM
Core & Main (CNM) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$42.39−0.25 (−0.6%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryThis week's news flow around Core & Main is light, with only a general stock-forecast item and a filing noting that Tidal Investments LLC reduced its stake in the company by 94.9% during the second quarter, selling over 200,000 shares while retaining a position worth approximately $524,000.
CNM closed at $42.39, down 0.6%, and sits below both its 50-day average of $43.82 and its 200-day average of $49.49, with the shorter average also below the longer one. Shares have fallen 11.7% over three months and 17% over the past year, trading well off the 52-week high of $59.66 and closer to the 52-week low of $40.03. The GekkoIndex reads 61.7, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone, and the current price stands 10.5% below the Gekko Fair Value of $47.36.
The next earnings report is scheduled for 8 December 2026, 70 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior report on 24 March 2026 showed earnings of $0.52 against an estimate of $0.48, with a 4.5% reaction. Over the last 90 days there has been one open-market insider purchase valued at $95,111. Seasonality data across 5 years shows an average 20-day return of 0.3% from this point, with gains in 3 of those years. Analyst coverage from 13 firms shows 7 buy, 5 hold and 1 sell ratings, with a consensus target of $55.29.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Core & Main price vs fair value
Close $42.39200-day averageGekko Fair Value $47.36
Core & Main quick facts
- Market cap
- $7.94B
- P/E ratio
- 17.6
- Forward P/E
- 17.2
- EPS, TTM
- $2.43
- Revenue, TTM
- $7.70B
- Profit margin
- 6%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 0.91
- Volume
- 2.01M avg 2.98M
- 1-year return
- −17.0%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.5%
- 50-day average
- $43.82
- 200-day average
- $49.49
- Next earnings
- Dec 8 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 184.4M
Core & Main swing-trade checklist
Core & Main scores 5 supportive, 0 mixed and 1 headwind across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
5 supportive0 mixed1 headwind
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $42.39 is below the 50-day ($43.82) and 200-day ($49.49) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
61.7, Accumulation
Reading 61.7 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
10.5% below
Price is 10.5% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 90 days: 1 open-market insider purchase.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 70 days
Next report Dec 8, 2026, 70 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+0.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +0.3% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
See seasonality
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Core & Main stock chart and price history
Core & Main closed at $42.39 on Sep 28, 2026, −17.0% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $40.03 to $59.66.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −3.1%
- 3 months
- −11.7%
- 6 months
- −12.0%
- 1 year
- −17.0%
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About Core & Main
Core & Main provides the physical components and support services that go into water, wastewater, storm drainage, and fire protection networks throughout the United States. Its catalog spans pipes, valves, hydrants, and fittings for moving and controlling water, plus storm drainage items like corrugated pipe, retention basins, inline drains, manholes, grates, and geosynthetic materials. On the fire safety side, it carries piping, sprinkler heads, full suppression assemblies, accessories, and custom fabrication work, and it rounds out its lineup with metering equipment, including smart meters, along with installation help and software tools.
Its buyers are largely local government bodies, water utilities in private hands, and contractors building residential, commercial, and public works projects. In effect, the business channels the parts and services that crews rely on to install, upkeep, fix, or swap out infrastructure connected to water delivery and fire suppression.
The company dates back to 1874 and runs its operations from St. Louis, Missouri. Its stock trades on the NYSE under the ticker CNM.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Wholesale distributors
- Website
- coreandmain.com
Core & Main GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Core & Main’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 61.7, in the Accumulation zone, up 0.7 points over five sessions.
61.7Accumulation
Up 0.7 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 63 | +2.2% | +6.6% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 192 | −0.2% | +0.9% | ||
| Neutral | 361 | 0.0% | −1.3% | ||
| Distribution | 54 | +0.4% | +5.4% | ||
| Selling | 2 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average CNM share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Core & Main stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Core & Main trades 10.5% below Gekko Fair Value of $47.36, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Core & Main shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$47.36
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
10.5% Undervalued
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Core & Main insider and Congress trading
Insiders filed 1 open-market purchase in Core & Main worth $95K, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in CNM were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Core & Main has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Aug 2, 2026
- $169.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 2.13%
- Trailing four quarters
- $365.0M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Mar 31
0of the funds Gekko tracks hold CNM.
0added0opened0trimmed2sold out
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Core & Main earnings: next date and track record
Core & Main reports on Dec 8, 2026, before the open (70 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Dec 8, 2026
Expected before the open, 70 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.92
- Revenue estimate
- $2.13B
5 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±11.2%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Mar 24, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Core & Main provided a measured review of fiscal 2025 and cautious outlook for fiscal 2026. Management highlighted the company’s leading market position in water infrastructure distribution across 370+ branches, diversified end markets (municipal 44%, nonresidential ~38%, residential ~18%), and growth initiatives (smart meters, treatment plants, fusible HDPE, geosynthetics). Q4 net sales decreased 7% to $1.58 billion (one fewer selling week), but average daily net sales rose ~1% driven by organic volumes. Gross margin expanded 50 bps to 27.1%, driven by private label penetration and disciplined purchasing. Adjusted EBITDA declined ~7% in the quarter. SG&A fell 5% (helped by one fewer selling week and cost actions). Management executed ~$30 million of annualized cost actions (about $6 million realized in FY25, remainder flows through FY26) while continuing targeted investments to drive market share and margin expansion. The company highlighted above-market growth and market share gains, a strong M&A pipeline, record greenfield openings and continued buybacks (ample authorization remaining). Management acknowledged near-term headwinds including residential weakness, PVC price declines, potential fuel/resin inflation due to geopolitical developments, and weather-driven impacts, but emphasized margin initiatives, inventory management, and investments in national teams to capture larger projects.
- Guidance
- EBITDA guidance of $950 million to $980 million for fiscal 2026 (implying ~2% to 5% EBITDA growth). Management expects pricing to be roughly flat for fiscal 2026 (with potential upside if resin-driven prices rise). Residential end market expected to be down mid-single digits for FY26 (with low-double-digit to mid-teens declines in early quarters), nonresidential expected flattish, municipal steady. Full realization of the $30M cost-out annual run-rate to largely flow through during FY26. Continued M&A activity targeted in the 2%-4% growth range over time. Ongoing share repurchases with ~$600M remaining authorization.
- Risks flagged
- Near-term headwinds: residential construction softness, PVC price weakness, weather-related disruptions, potential volatility and increases in fuel and global resin prices (linked to geopolitical events), macroeconomic uncertainty affecting demand, choppy M&A market dynamics, and execution risk in scaling new product/service initiatives.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2026 | $0.52 est $0.48 | $1.58B est $1.59B | +4.5% |
| Dec 9, 2025 | $0.72 est $0.70 | $2.06B est $2.06B | +9.3% |
| Sep 9, 2025 | $0.87 est $0.78 | $2.09B est $2.12B | −27.1% |
| Jun 10, 2025 | $0.52 est $0.52 | $1.91B est $1.84B | −3.2% |
| Mar 25, 2025 | $0.34 est $0.36 | $1.70B est $1.67B | −0.3% |
| Dec 3, 2024 | $0.69 est $0.66 | $2.04B est $1.99B | +14.4% |
| Sep 4, 2024 | $0.61 est $0.74 | $1.96B est $2.05B | −18.8% |
| Jun 4, 2024 | $0.52 est $0.51 | $1.74B est $1.72B | −11.6% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Core & Main stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Core & Main is $55.29, +30.4% from the last close, from 13 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$55.29consensus 12-month target, +30.4% from the last close
Now $42.39Avg $55.29
Low $40High $65
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 13 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15 | Wolfe Research | $63 | +48.6% |
| Sep 11 | Citi | $46 | +8.5% |
| Sep 10 | Wells Fargo | $48 | +13.2% |
| Sep 10 | Robert W. Baird | $57 | +34.5% |
| Sep 10 | Truist Financial | $45 | +6.2% |
+0.9%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+0.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.1%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Core & Main seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Core & Main averaged +0.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.5% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −0.8% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −1.7% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +0.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +1.6% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, CNM’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 6.5%.
Core & Main market cap and key statistics
Core & Main’s market cap is $7.94B, with a P/E ratio of 17.6 and revenue of $7.70B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $7.94B
- P/E ratio
- 17.6
- Forward P/E
- 17.2
- EPS, TTM
- $2.43
- Gekko Fair Value
- $47.36
Trading
- Volume
- 2.01M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.98M
- 52-week high
- $59.66
- 52-week low
- $40.03
- Shares outstanding
- 184.4M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $7.70B
- Profit margin
- 6%
- Return on equity
- 23.6%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +9.2%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.91
- Typical daily move
- ±3.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.5%
Core & Main stock news this week
2 headlines about Core & Main from the past week, newest first, each linking to the publisher.
- Core & Main, Inc. (CNM) Stock forecastsYahoo Finance UK, Sep 26
- Tidal Investments LLC Reduces Position in Core & Main, Inc. $CNMMarketBeat, Sep 22
Core & Main peers
Core & Main’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| GWWW.W. Grainger | Accumulation | 17.8% above |
| FASTFastenal | Neutral | 27.8% above |
| FERGFerguson Enterprises | Neutral | 2.6% below |
| WCCWESCO International | Neutral | 18.9% above |
| GPCGenuine Parts | Accumulation | 4.8% above |
| QXOQXO | Accumulation | 54.3% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Core & Main stock FAQ
What is Core & Main’s market cap?
Core & Main’s market cap is $7.94B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $42.39, with 184.4M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 17.6.
What is the Core & Main stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Core & Main is $55.29, +30.4% from the last close. Of the 13 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 7 rate it a buy, 5 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Core & Main stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Core & Main is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $42.39 is 10.5% below Gekko Fair Value of $47.36. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Core & Main report earnings next?
Core & Main is expected to report on Dec 8, 2026, before the market opens (70 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.92 per share on revenue of $2.13B. Core & Main beat the earnings estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports, moving 11.2% on average across the report.
What is Core & Main’s 52-week high and low?
Core & Main’s 52-week high is $59.66 and its 52-week low is $40.03; it closed at $42.39 on Sep 28, 2026, −17.0% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $67.18 on Sep 5, 2025.
Is Core & Main stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 5 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, smart money, earnings risk and seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
How this page works
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