Currently, there are 170.43M common shares owned by the public and among those 168.87M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 10.88% and -32.51% over the past three months. CGNX shares are trading -25.26% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -32.65% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $22.67 and touched a high of $53.13 over the same period. CGNX has an average intraday trading volume of 2.55 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 5.54%, -8.73%, and -28.25% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Cognex Corp (NASDAQ: CGNX) shares accounts for 97.79% of the company’s 170.43M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $4.54B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.46. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 43.58, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.61. The company has a PEG of 1.46 and a Quick Ratio of 2.63 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.05. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.03% over the week and 5.47% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 32.72%, and 30.70% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 29.78% over the next five years, compared to -11.96% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the CGNX, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. TD Cowen stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on April 28, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $35. HSBC Securities coverage for the Cognex Corp (CGNX) stock in a research note released on February 21, 2025 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $33. Cantor Fitzgerald was of a view on December 20, 2024 that the stock is Overweight, while Truist gave the stock Hold rating on November 05, 2024, issuing a price target of $46- $43. Stephens on their part issued Overweight rating on October 16, 2024.
