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Clarus Corp CLAR
Clarus Corp (CLAR) earns a Piotroski F-score of 3/9 (weak financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. It pays a dividend yielding 3.17% (safety: safe). FY2025 revenue was $250.4M at a -18.6% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -3.31 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Manufacturing · percentile among 1957 companies
Percentile vs other Manufacturing companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 3/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · distress zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.526 |
| Retained earnings / assets | -1.836 |
| EBIT / assets | -0.24 |
| Equity / liabilities | 3.731 |
Sector peers · similar-size Manufacturing companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAR | Clarus Corp | 3/9 | -0.23 | — | -5.2% |
| ESCA | ESCALADE INC | 7/9 | 9.74 | 19.4 | -4.5% |
| AOUT | American Outdoor Brands, Inc. | 5/9 | 5.24 | — | -14.3% |
| KBSX | FST Corp. | 3/9 | -0.13 | — | +31.4% |
| TRUG | TruGolf Holdings, Inc. | 3/9 | -8.03 | — | -13.6% |
| NWTG | Newton Golf Company, Inc. | 3/9 | — | — | — |
| BWMG | Brownie's Marine Group, Inc | 4/9 | -10.1 | — | — |
About Clarus Corp
Clarus Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and distribution of outdoor equipment and lifestyle products in the United States, Australia, China, Austria, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Outdoor and Adventure. The Outdoor segment offers apparels, such as shells, insulation, midlayers, pants, and logowear; rock-climbing footwear and equipment, including carabiners, protection devices, harnesses, belay devices, helmets, and ice-climbing gears; technical backpacks and day packs; trekking poles; headlamps and lanterns; gloves and mittens; and skis, ski poles, ski skins, avalanche airbag systems and transceivers, shovels, and probes. This segment provides its products for climbing, mountaineering, trail running, backpacking, skiing, and other outdoor recreation activities under the Black Diamond Equipment and PIEPS brands. The Adventure segment offers engineered automotive roof racks, trays, mounting systems, luggage boxes, carriers, recovery boards, bicycle racks, and accessories under the Rhino-Rack brand name; and overlanding and off-road vehicle recovery and extraction tracks for the overland and the off-road market under the MAXTRAX brand, as well as distributes and retails overlanding and off-road vehicle under the TRED brand name. The company markets and distributes its products through independent specialty stores and specialty chains, sporting goods and outdoor recreation stores, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers; and independent distributors, as well as through its websites. The company was formerly known as Black Diamond, Inc. and changed its name to Clarus Corporation in August 2017. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
FAQ
Is CLAR financially healthy?
Clarus Corp's Piotroski F-score is 3/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the distress zone.
Does CLAR pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. Clarus Corp pays a dividend yielding about 3.17% with a -8.2% payout ratio, rated “safe” for safety.
How profitable is CLAR?
In FY2025, Clarus Corp had a net margin of -18.6% and a return on equity of -23.7%.
Is CLAR overvalued or undervalued?
Clarus Corp trades at about 5.0× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 14.8×–109.1×, median 36.4×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for CLAR?
The average Wall-Street price target for Clarus Corp is $3.34, about 9.3% below the recent price, from 5 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is CLAR a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Clarus Corp: a Piotroski F-score of 3/9, an Altman Z″ in the distress zone, a dividend yield of 3.17%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.