CognexCGNX
Buy moreBuy more on a dip to our buy price, which is under today's $51.
- 6 good· Earnings beat
- 5 to watch· Below 50-day
$50.97−0.76 (−1.46%)
Price at 3:03 PM ET
After hours · opens in 17h 23mNext open: Friday, Nov 13, 9:30 AM ETNYSE · Technology · Information Technology · Mid-size company
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What would change it
Sources
- From the 10-Q for the quarter to Oct 4, reported Nov 4
- Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11
Any one could move it to Keep
Next report
below8%
sales growth
Compared with the S&P 500
12 points
worse in one day
26 points
worse in five trading days
+33.6% in a yearsince Nov 11, 2025
Latest results
Reported Nov 4 after the close
- EPS
- $0.53
- vs $0.51 expected, beat by 3.9%
- The stock
- −10%
- On Nov 5, usually 13%
Our call is still Buy more after the results.
The news behind our call
written 10:04 AM ET10:04 AM ET · 1 articles · 1 sources
Cognex expects 2026 revenue of $1.15 billion at the midpoint, versus $994 million in 2025.
- Cognex’s profit growth remains strong.
What changed
From Cognex via Yahoo Finance, Cognex via Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance and 3 more
Nov 19
in 7 days
Next ex-dividend date
$0.36 a share a year at the current rate.
Overview
In plain numbers
- Revenue grew 15.8% from a year earlier, to $1.1B in the last twelve months.
- It keeps 25 cents of every revenue dollar as operating profit, down from 30 cents in FY 2021.
- It turned 25% of revenue into free cash flow: $286.0M in the last twelve months.
- It holds $695.7M in cash and investments against $70.4M of debt, which leaves $625.3M of net cash.
Key figures
- Revenue (TTM)
- $1.1B
- Revenue growth, 1 year
- +15.8%
- Net income
- $242M
- EPS (diluted)
- $1.43
- Gross margin
- 69.7%
- Operating margin
- 25.0%
- Return on equity
- 15.1%
- Return on capital
- 19.1%
- Debt / equity
- 0.04
- Current ratio
- 5.04
- Dividend yield
- 0.71%
- Buyback yield
- 0.33%
Key facts
- Company value
- $8.1B
- Price / last year's earnings
- 57.2×
- Today's range
- 49.5551.88
- Past year's range
- 34.6572.32
- Yesterday's close
- $51.72
- Swings vs the market
- 1.5×bigger
- Dividend yield
- 0.71%$0.36 a year