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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Electrical Equipment · CIK 0000851205
$54.60
-5.94% · live
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$9.12B market value
From COGNEX CORP's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026 · read the filing
COGNEX makes measuring and control instruments. It took in $994.4M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 12 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, with growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Moschner Matthew, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$1.6M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From COGNEX CORP's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Operating income
$115.1M → $162.6M
Free cash flow
$134.0M → $236.8M
Cash
$186.1M → $262.9M
Capital spending
$15.0M → $8.7M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 12, 2026
Improved: +41.3%
$115.1M to $162.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
CGNX fell 5.94% on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved −1.27%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 4.7 points below its sector and 4.9 points below the market.
No filing from CGNX and no news item about it appeared in the last 3 days.
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 14% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 8% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 12 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $114.4M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 8.7% last year.
It does not appear so. For every $1 it owes, it owns $3.84 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 48 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 22% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 11 years.
GoodFigures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $114.4M and generated $245.5M of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 12, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 13, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 15, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 16, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 17, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $994.4M | $914.5M | $837.5M | $1.01B | $1.04B | +8.7% |
| Cost of revenue | $329.0M | $288.7M | $236.3M | $284.2M | $277.3M | +13.9% |
| Gross profit | $665.4M | $625.8M | $601.2M | $721.9M | $759.8M | +6.3% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 66.9% | 68.4% | 71.8% | 71.8% | 73.3% | −1.5 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $363.9M | $370.9M | $339.1M | $312.1M | $309.4M | −1.9% |
| Operating income | $162.6M | $115.1M | $130.7M | $246.2M | $315.1M | +41.3% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 16.3% | 12.6% | 15.6% | 24.5% | 30.4% | +3.8 pts |
| Income before tax | $182.8M | $131.5M | $135.3M | $250.7M | $318.9M | +39.0% |
| Net income | $114.4M | $106.2M | $113.2M | $215.5M | $279.9M | +7.8% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 11.5% | 11.6% | 13.5% | 21.4% | 27.0% | −0.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.6853 | $0.6229 | $0.6599 | $1.25 | $1.59 | +10.0% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 1,600 shares at $56.44 ($90.3K)
Holds 20,846 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,600 shares at $65.36 ($104.6K)
Holds 19,246 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +16.9% · Operating margin +11.9 pts · Operating income +96.9% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 42 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 24 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from CGNX's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 12, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 8.7 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 15, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 16, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 17, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 8.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
11.77
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +76.6%
$134.0M to $236.8MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +41.3%
$186.1M to $262.9MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Changed: -41.9%
$15.0M to $8.7MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +3.8 pts
12.6% to 16.3%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +8.7%
$914.5M to $994.4MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +6.3%
$625.8M to $665.4MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +7.8%
$106.2M to $114.4MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.5 pts
68.4% to 66.9%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +10.0%
$0.62 to $0.69Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -2.0%
170.4M to 167.0MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +96.9%
$43.4M to $85.5MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +79.6%
$40.5M to $72.8MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +11.9 pts
17.4% to 29.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +8.7 pts
16.3% to 25.0%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +79.3%
$0.24 to $0.43Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +68.7%
$179.3M to $302.5MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +16.9%
$249.1M to $291.3MSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +22.6%
$167.9M to $205.8MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +3.3 pts
67.4% to 70.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +42.8%
$59.9M to $85.5MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +40.7%
$51.7M to $72.8MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +7.1 pts
22.3% to 29.4%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +5.7 pts
19.3% to 25.0%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +39.3%
$0.31 to $0.43Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +27.5%
$237.3M to $302.5MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +8.5%
$268.4M to $291.3MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +7.8%
$190.9M to $205.8MNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: +1.0%
166.5M to 168.2MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 11% and 16%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 4.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 49.9x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Exercised stock options — 4,000 shares at $51.49 ($206.0K)
Holds 23,246 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 4,000 shares at $65.36 ($261.4K)
Holds 19,246 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 4,000 shares at $40.71 ($162.8K)
Holds 23,246 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 4,000 shares at $63.62 ($254.5K)
Holds 19,246 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 7,000 shares at $42.84 ($299.9K)
Holds 26,246 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 7,000 shares at $63.61 ($445.3K)
Holds 19,246 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 8,362 shares at $63.62 ($532.0K)
Holds 10,884 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 4,999 shares
Holds 21,464 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 2,218 shares at $66.89 ($148.4K)
Holds 19,246 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 2,500 shares
Holds 6,490 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 734 shares at $66.89 ($49.1K)
Holds 5,756 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 24,962 shares ($1.6M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Exercise of Stock Options.
Filed notice to sell 172,667 shares ($12.3M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 8,576 shares ($596.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results · Reported another event
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +24.3% · Operating margin +10.2 pts · Operating income +129.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingChanged its auditor
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +8.7% · Operating margin +3.8 pts · Operating income +41.3% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingChanged its auditor
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +18.0% · Operating margin +7.4 pts · Operating income +83.0% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin +1.4 pts · Operating income +12.9% · Profit +11.9% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Operating margin +5.3 pts · Operating income +83.7% · Profit +96.3% — against Q1 FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Published results · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingThe first 40 of 42. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-12. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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