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Cricut, Inc. Class ACRCTCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Wholesale Distributors

Makes home cutting machines and design software/subscriptions for DIY crafters, plus branded materials and accessories.

Momentum leader 99
Mkt cap
$1.84B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
83%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$9.67M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
31.3×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+62.2 pp
WACC 6.4%
Hurdle
-5 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
123 days
9 Mar 2027
Close · USD$8.78
1D-5.1%
1W+44.4%
1M+37.2%
3M+48.8%
6M+104.2%
YTD+77.4%
1Y+84.8%
ATR %5.6%
Beta0.83
52w lowhigh9.5% off high

What Cricut does

Makes home cutting machines and design software/subscriptions for DIY crafters, plus branded materials and accessories.

Sells cutting machines to hobbyists and then earns on repeat purchases of its own blades, vinyl and other materials and on Cricut Access, a paid design-library subscription. The machine sale starts the relationship, so machine launches and holiday sales matter, while materials and subscriptions bring recurring income.

Products and services

  • Cutting machines (Explore, Maker)
  • Cricut Access design subscription
  • Materials & accessories (vinyl, cardstock)
  • Heat presses (EasyPress)

Customers

  • Home crafters/hobbyists
  • Small craft businesses

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Consumer hardware/software
  • Home cutting machines
  • Design software subscription (Cricut…

What could go right

  • Subscription (Access) attach and retention
  • New hardware product launches

What could go wrong

  • Post-pandemic craft-demand normalization
  • Hardware sales cyclicality

Moat: narrow (installed base, switching costs, brand). Owning the cutting machine locks users into Cricut's design app and materials ecosystem, but rivals compete directly.

Headquarters: South Jordan, Utah · Founded: 2002 · Employees: 700

Named competitors

  • Silhouette America private or unlisted
  • Brother Industries 6448.T
  • Sizzix private or unlisted
  • Xyron private or unlisted

Cricut at a glance

Size Cricut (CRCT) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Wholesale Distributors) with a market value of $1.84B, the 1855th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $8.78 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 104.2%, against -12.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — highest of 10 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 0.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +18.6%); the operating margin is 16.7% (peer median 9.3%).

Valuation It trades at 31.3× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.8× (most expensive of 7).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is -6%, so the hurdle is -5 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 62.2 points above its cost of capital (6.4% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $54.7M at 30 Sep 2026, up 6% on a year earlier — 0.1 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 8.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 9 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015020011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026CRCT 201Peer median 85
Six months, rebased to 100: Cricut against the median of its 9 peers (local-currency closes).

Cricut financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$708M$709M$713M$765M$886M
Revenue growth—-1%-7%-14%—
Gross profit$414M$390M$353M$343M$350M
EBITDA$143M$120M$106M$99.8M$107M
Net income$95.0M$76.7M$62.8M$53.6M$60.7M
Free cash flow$148M$176M$247M$264M$82.6M
Capital expenditure$35.7M$24.4M$18.3M$23.7M$33.8M
Total debt$9.44M$11.6M$15.2M$14.2M$19.4M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Cricut competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%-20%0%+20%+40%GCTGMDCLTDGFTULLOYDSENTMMTCAEGISLOGAPCSHARDACROPMARINECRCT6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Cricut is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-10%0%+10%+20%10×20×30×GCTGMDCLTDGFTUAEGISLOGAPCSHARDACROPCRCTRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Cricut is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%0%20%GCTGFTUAEGISLOGAPCSHARDACROPCRCTGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Cricut is the large dot.

Cricut competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CRCT vs 6448.T)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Cricut CRCT$1.84B+104%-1%17%31.3×-10.4%
Brother Industries 6448.T$6.52B+39%+7%13%10.5×-6.3%

How Cricut compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Cricut against its 9 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCRCTPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+37.2%-7.6%highest of 10
6-month return+104.2%-12.4%highest of 10
Distance from 52-week high-9.5%-27.8%2nd highest of 10
Revenue growth (TTM)-0.9%+18.6%3rd lowest of 10
Operating margin16.7%9.3%2nd highest of 10
Forward P/E31.3×14.8×most expensive of 7
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-10.4%8.0%least demanding of 6
Growth delivered (Del g)-5.9%+16.7%2nd lowest of 6
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-4.6 pp+0.3 pp3rd least demanding of 6
ROIC minus cost of capital+62.2 pp-2.2 pphighest of 10
EV / EBITDA11.0×20.2×3rd cheapest of 8
Net debt / EBITDA-1.9×-0.5×least indebted of 9

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Cricut CRCTUnited States$1.84B+104%-1%17%31.3×-10.4%-5.9%
GigaCloud Technology GCTUnited States$2.08B+45%+23%12%11.1×8.0%+36.2%
Gujarat Mineral Development GMDCLTD.NSIndia$1.56B-34%+19%15%16.0×n/an/a
Grafton GFTU.LUnited Kingdom$2.59B+25%+9%6%13.6×8.8%+8.5%
Lloyds Enterprises LLOYDSENT.NSIndia$988M-12%+33%8%n/an/an/a
MMTC MMTC.NSIndia$847M-20%-20%-6,724%n/an/an/a
Aegis Logistics AEGISLOG.NSIndia$4.23B+54%+20%21%27.3×26.9%+16.7%
ARKO Petroleum APCUnited States$704M-23%-12%2%17.5×4.8%-7.6%
Sharda Cropchem SHARDACROP.NSIndia$655M-39%+17%14%9.3×-2.6%+17.1%
Marine Electricals (India) MARINE.NSIndia$571M+66%+22%9%n/an/an/a

Cricut backlog

Cricut reported $54.7M of remaining performance obligations at 30 Sep 2026, up 6% from a year earlier and down 3% from the previous quarter. That is 0.1 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 0.99.

Questions

Who are Cricut's main competitors?
Named competitors: Silhouette America (private or unlisted), Brother Industries (6448.T), Sizzix (private or unlisted), Xyron (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes GigaCloud Technology (GCT), Gujarat Mineral Development (GMDCLTD.NS), Grafton (GFTU.L), Lloyds Enterprises (LLOYDSENT.NS), MMTC (MMTC.NS), Aegis Logistics (AEGISLOG.NS).
Is Cricut expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 31.3× against a peer median of 14.8×, most expensive of 7 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is -6%, so the hurdle is -5 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Cricut stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +104.2% against -12.4% for the median peer; over one year +84.8%.
What is Cricut's backlog?
Cricut's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $54.7M at 30 Sep 2026, +6% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.