Technology / Scientific & Technical InstrumentsUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

10.9B

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E45.4

P25 12.5P50 22.3P75 38.6

Trailing P/E77.3

P25 16.3P50 33.5P75 65.6

ROE9.7

P25 -30.7P50 1.5P75 14.4

ROIC10.4

P25 -18.6P50 1.9P75 13.7

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All CGNX market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 258 of 258 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000851205
Company name	Cognex Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	192422103
Employees	2,745
Employees Change	-169%
Employees Change Percent	-5.8
Enterprise value	$10.7B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Scientific & Technical Instruments
IPO Date	1989-07-20
Isin	US1924221039
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$10.9B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$65.66
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	381,333.33x
Sector	Technology
Sic	3823
Symbol	CGNX
Tags	artificial-intelligence
Website	https://www.cognex.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	1.3%
EV Earnings	75.15x
EV Sales Forward	9.69x
EV/EBIT	54.48x
EV/EBITDA	47.15x
EV/Sales	10.23x
Forward P/E	45.44x
P/B ratio	7.39x
P/E ratio	77.26x
P/S ratio	10.45x
PE Ratio10 Y	51.09x
PE Ratio3 Y	61.97x
PE Ratio5 Y	54.46x
PS Forward	9.89x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	18.78%
EBITDA Margin	21.7%
Gross margin	68.05%
Gross Profit	$712.3M
Gross Profit Growth	13.39%
Gross Profit Growth Q	32.71%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	2.47%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	1.43%
Net Income	$142.5M
Net Income Growth	21.05%
Net Income Growth Q	119.06%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	1%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-6.4%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-8.77%
Pretax Margin	20.71%
Profit Margin	13.62%
Profit Per Employee	$51,928
Profitable Years	16
ROA	6.24
Roa5y	6.27
ROCE	10.83
ROE	9.75
Roe5y	11.63
ROIC	10.39
Roic5y	14.36

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	13.34%
Cagr15y	15.34%
Cagr1y	133.11%
Cagr20y	13.13%
Cagr3y	10.63%
Cagr5y	-2.67%
Div CAGR10	8.92%
Div CAGR3	6.8%
Div CAGR5	-31.58%
EPS Growth	23.3
EPS Growth Q	122.3
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	1
EPS Growth3 Y	-5.25
EPS Growth5 Y	-7.72
Revenue Growth	13.81x
Revenue Growth Q	24.26x
Revenue Growth Quarters	7x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	4.22x
Revenue Growth5 Y	3.47x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.53
Assets	$2B
Cash	$296.8M
Current Assets	$690.3M
Current Liabilities	$189.5M
Debt	$74M
Debt EBITDA	$0.31
Debt Equity	$0.05
Equity	$1.5B
Liabilities	$526.6M
Long Term Assets	$1.3B
Long Term Liabilities	$337.2M
Net Cash	$222.7M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$2.04
Net Cash Growth	75.74%
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.98
Net Debt Equity	$-0.15
Tangible Book Value	$1B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$6.18
WACC	12.3

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	3.64
Inventory Turnover	2.33
Net Working Capital	$216.4M
Quick ratio	2.55
Working Capital	$500.9M
Working Capital Turnover	$2.34

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.86%
Dividend Growth	6.35%
Dividend Growth Years	4%
Dividend per share	$0.34
Dividend Years	12
Dividend Yield	0.52%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-21
Last Dividend	$0.09
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	39.42%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	249.82%
1Y total return	132.98%
200-day SMA	44.91
3Y total return	35.42%
50-day SMA	52.99
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	-12.65%
All Time High	101.8
All Time High Change	-35.51%
All Time High Date	2021-02-12
All Time Low	0.32
All Time Low Change	20,652.21%
All Time Low Date	1989-08-22
ATR	2.78
Beta	1.48
Beta1y	0.88
Beta2y	1.17
Ch YTD	82.49
High	68.52
High52	71.9
High52 Date	2026-05-07
High52ch	-8.68%
Low	64.58
Low52	28.56
Low52 Date	2025-05-08
Low52ch	129.9%
Ma50ch	23.91%
Premarket Change Percent	1.11
Premarket Price	$66.65
Premarket Volume	16,401
Price vs 200-day SMA	46.2%
RSI	79.8
RSI Monthly	66.19
RSI Weekly	71.48
Sharpe ratio	1.67x
Sortino ratio	3.67
Total Return	2.37%
Tr YTD	82.76
Tr15y	751.1%
Tr1m	27.03%
Tr1w	17.38%
Tr3m	55.2%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	12
Analyst Count Top	7
Analyst Price Target Top	$64.57
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.24
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	50
Earnings Revenue Estimate	245,721,984x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	13.74x
Operating Income	$196.6M
Operating Income Growth	54.87
Operating Income Growth Q	131.7
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-1.24
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-5.69
Operating margin	18.78
Price target	$64.33
Price Target Change	$-2.03
Price Target Change Top	$-1.66

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	158,814,002%
Float Percent	95.37%
Shares Insiders	0.37%
Shares Institutions	96.84%
Shares Out	166,527,000
Shares Qo Q	-0.3%
Shares Yo Y	-1.86%
Short Float	3.09%
Short Ratio	2.79
Short Shares	2.94

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Average Volume	2,479,581.3x
Bv Per Share	8.88
Ch10y	223.4
Ch15y	643.8
Ch1m	27.03
Ch1w	17.38
Ch1y	131.1
Ch20y	840
Ch3m	54.97
Ch3y	32.38
Ch5y	-15.36
Ch6m	67.2
Change	-0.39%
Change From Open	-1.66
Close	65.92
Days Gap	1.29
Depreciation Amortization	30,557,250
Dollar Volume	279,485,926.6
Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$196.6M
EBITDA	$227.2M
EPS	$0.85
F Score	4
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,981
Goodwill	382,818,000
Graham Number	13.03183
Graham Upside	-80.15
Income Tax	$74.2M
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-06
Last Report Date	2026-04-05
Last Split Date	2017-12-04
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-12
Lynch Fair Value	$4.25
Lynch Upside	-93.53
Ma150	45.58
Ma150ch	44.05%
Ma20	56.47
Ma20ch	16.27%
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-29
Open	66.77
Optionable	Yes
Payment Date	2026-06-04
Position In Range	27.41
Post Close	65.66
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.89
Postmarket Price	$65.08
Ppne	154,000,000
Pre Close	65.92
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$48.13
Ptbv Ratio	10.63
Relative Volume	1.72x
Revenue	1,046,760,000x
Tax By Revenue	7.09x
Tax Rate	34.24%
Tr20y	1,079.35%
Tr6m	67.82%
Us State	Massachusetts
Volume	4,256,563
Z Score	8.85

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

CGNX dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+0.5%

$0.34 annual per share

Payout ratio

+39.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

-31.6%

4 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.4%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-21

Performance

CGNX stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns CGNX?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+96.8%

Float: +95.4% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

CGNX momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

79.8

Above 70: short-term overbought

Price vs 200-day MA

+46.2%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.48

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

1.67

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

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