CRA International Stock Forward View

CRAI Stock  USD 178.35  8.39  4.49%   
CRA Stock outlook is based on your current time horizon. We recommend always using this module together with an analysis of CRA International's historical fundamentals, such as revenue growth or operating cash flow patterns.
As of 30th of January 2026, the relative strength index (RSI) of CRA International's share price is approaching 36 suggesting that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its support level. The main point of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling CRA International, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 36

 Sell Extended

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of CRA International's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with CRA International, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting CRA International's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.036
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
2.1433
EPS Estimate Current Year
8.24
EPS Estimate Next Year
8.9067
Wall Street Target Price
252.5
Using CRA International hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of CRA International from the perspective of CRA International response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards CRA International using CRA International's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards CRA using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of CRA International's stock price.

CRA International Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in CRA International's short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards CRA. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of CRA International stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
189.378
Short Percent
0.0316
Short Ratio
1.7
Shares Short Prior Month
197.5 K
50 Day MA
198.5484

CRA Relative Strength Index

The Naive Prediction forecasted value of CRA International on the next trading day is expected to be 169.33 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.64 and the sum of the absolute errors of 225.45.

CRA International Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to CRA International's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in CRA. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding CRA can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around CRA International. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of CRA International's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about CRA International.

CRA International Implied Volatility

    
  0.81  
CRA International's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of CRA International stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if CRA International's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that CRA International stock will not fluctuate a lot when CRA International's options are near their expiration.
The Naive Prediction forecasted value of CRA International on the next trading day is expected to be 169.33 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.64 and the sum of the absolute errors of 225.45.

CRA International after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 178.35  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of CRA International to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in CRA Stock please use our How to Invest in CRA International guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current CRA contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that CRA International will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0506% per day over the life of the 2026-03-20 option contract. With CRA International trading at USD 178.35, that is roughly USD 0.0903 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating CRA International's daily price movement you should consider acquiring CRA International options at the current volatility level of 0.81%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 CRA Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast CRA International's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in CRA International's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for CRA International stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current CRA International's open interest, investors have to compare it to CRA International's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of CRA International is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in CRA. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

CRA International Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine CRA price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for CRA using various technical indicators. When you analyze CRA charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

CRA International Cash Forecast

Predicting cash flow or other financial metrics requires analysts to utilize a variety of statistical methods, techniques, and algorithms. These tools help uncover hidden patterns in the CRA International's financial statements, enabling forecasts of their impact on future stock prices.
 
Cash  
First Reported
1997-12-31
Previous Quarter
19.4 M
Current Value
22.5 M
Quarterly Volatility
32 M
 
Dot-com Bubble
 
Housing Crash
 
Credit Downgrade
 
Yuan Drop
 
Covid
 
Interest Hikes
A naive forecasting model for CRA International is a special case of the moving average forecasting where the number of periods used for smoothing is one. Therefore, the forecast of CRA International value for a given trading day is simply the observed value for the previous period. Due to the simplistic nature of the naive forecasting model, it can only be used to forecast up to one period.

CRA International Naive Prediction Price Forecast For the 31st of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Naive Prediction forecasted value of CRA International on the next trading day is expected to be 169.33 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.64, mean absolute percentage error of 20.30, and the sum of the absolute errors of 225.45.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict CRA Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that CRA International's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

CRA International Stock Forecast Pattern

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CRA International Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting CRA International's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. CRA International's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 167.17 and 171.49, respectively. We have considered CRA International's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
178.35
167.17
Downside
169.33
Expected Value
171.49
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Naive Prediction forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of CRA International stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent CRA International stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria122.9589
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation3.6363
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0186
SAESum of the absolute errors225.4532
This model is not at all useful as a medium-long range forecasting tool of CRA International. This model is simplistic and is included partly for completeness and partly because of its simplicity. It is unlikely that you'll want to use this model directly to predict CRA International. Instead, consider using either the moving average model or the more general weighted moving average model with a higher (i.e., greater than 1) number of periods, and possibly a different set of weights.

Predictive Modules for CRA International

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as CRA International. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
176.20178.35180.50
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
160.51187.80189.95
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
187.81208.44229.08
Details
2 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
229.78252.50280.28
Details
Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as CRA International. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against CRA International's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, CRA International's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in CRA International.

CRA International After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of CRA International at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in CRA International or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of CRA International, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

CRA International Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting CRA International's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on CRA International's historical news coverage. CRA International's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 176.20 and 180.50, respectively. We have considered CRA International's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
178.35
176.20
Downside
178.35
After-hype Price
180.50
Upside
CRA International is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of CRA International is based on 3 months time horizon.

CRA International Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as CRA International is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading CRA International backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with CRA International, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.09 
2.16
  0.11 
  0.03 
8 Events / Month
8 Events / Month
In about 8 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
178.35
178.35
0.00 
174.19  
Notes

CRA International Hype Timeline

CRA International is currently traded for 178.35. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.11, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.03. CRA is forecasted not to react to the next headline, with the price staying at about the same level, and average media hype impact volatility is about 174.19%. The immediate return on the next news is forecasted to be very small, whereas the daily expected return is currently at -0.09%. %. The volatility of related hype on CRA International is about 681.39%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 178.38. About 93.0% of the company shares are held by institutions such as insurance companies. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.48. CRA International recorded earning per share (EPS) of 8.32. The entity last dividend was issued on the 25th of November 2025. Given the investment horizon of 90 days the next forecasted press release will be in about 8 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of CRA International to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in CRA Stock please use our How to Invest in CRA International guide.

CRA International Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to CRA International's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict CRA International's future price movements. Getting to know how CRA International's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how CRA International may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
ICFIICF International(1.29)9 per month 1.84 (0.01) 4.00 (2.89) 7.83 
CCECCapital Clean Energy 0.55 9 per month 2.14  0.0009  3.94 (3.83) 8.72 
HSIIHeidrick Struggles International 0.38 33 per month 0.00 (0.1) 0.19 (0.03) 0.74 
RHLDResolute Holdings Management 4.66 9 per month 3.85  0.15  8.69 (8.62) 108.61 
GRCGorman Rupp 0.67 9 per month 1.17  0.12  3.62 (2.33) 7.79 
LNNLindsay(1.34)8 per month 1.64  0.04  2.78 (2.98) 8.40 
GBXGreenbrier Companies(0.09)7 per month 2.38  0.05  3.10 (2.09) 15.69 
EVLVEvolv Technologies Holdings(0.23)8 per month 0.00 (0.12) 4.95 (6.01) 15.16 
EVEXEve Holding(0.09)5 per month 0.00 (0.04) 5.46 (5.65) 19.07 
JBIJanus International Group(0.05)7 per month 0.00 (0.15) 3.52 (3.21) 26.72 

Other Forecasting Options for CRA International

For every potential investor in CRA, whether a beginner or expert, CRA International's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. CRA Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in CRA. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying CRA International's price trends.

CRA International Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with CRA International stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of CRA International could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing CRA International by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

CRA International Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how CRA International stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading CRA International shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying CRA International stock market strength indicators, traders can identify CRA International entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

CRA International Risk Indicators

The analysis of CRA International's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in CRA International's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting cra stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for CRA International

The number of cover stories for CRA International depends on current market conditions and CRA International's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that CRA International is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about CRA International's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

CRA International Short Properties

CRA International's future price predictability will typically decrease when CRA International's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of CRA International often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential CRA International's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. CRA International's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding6.9 M
Cash And Short Term Investments26.7 M
When determining whether CRA International offers a strong return on investment in its stock, a comprehensive analysis is essential. The process typically begins with a thorough review of CRA International's financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, to assess its financial health. Key financial ratios are used to gauge profitability, efficiency, and growth potential of Cra International Stock. Outlined below are crucial reports that will aid in making a well-informed decision on Cra International Stock:
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of CRA International to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in CRA Stock please use our How to Invest in CRA International guide.
You can also try the Equity Forecasting module to use basic forecasting models to generate price predictions and determine price momentum.
Is there potential for Research & Consulting Services market expansion? Will CRA introduce new products? Factors like these will boost the valuation of CRA International. Projected growth potential of CRA fundamentally drives upward valuation adjustments. Understanding fair value requires weighing current performance against future potential. All the valuation information about CRA International listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.036
Dividend Share
1.96
Earnings Share
8.32
Revenue Per Share
109.157
Quarterly Revenue Growth
0.108
The market value of CRA International is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of CRA that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of CRA International's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is CRA International's true underlying value. Analysts utilize numerous techniques to assess fundamental value, seeking to purchase shares when trading prices fall beneath estimated intrinsic worth. Because CRA International's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect CRA International's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
It's important to distinguish between CRA International's intrinsic value and market price, which are calculated using different methodologies. Investment decisions regarding CRA International should consider multiple factors including financial performance, growth metrics, competitive position, and professional analysis. Meanwhile, CRA International's quoted price indicates the marketplace figure where supply meets demand through bilateral consent.