Cognex (CGNX) Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cognex in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings, 2 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" CGNX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CGNX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Cognex's shares. Their CGNX share price forecasts range from $40.00 to $65.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $50.17 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 8.5%.
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Cognex's stock was trading at $47.11 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, CGNX stock has increased by 16.4% and is now trading at $54.82.
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Cognex saw a drop in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,080,000 shares, a drop of 18.7% from the April 30th total of 3,790,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 761,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.0 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 1st 2023.
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Cognex Co. (NASDAQ:CGNX) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 16th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.31 by $0.01. The scientific and technical instruments company earned $239.43 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $245.09 million. Cognex had a net margin of 18.79% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.59%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 1.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.30 earnings per share.

Cognex announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 4th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 19th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, June 2nd. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 18th.
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Cognex (NASDAQ:CGNX) pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.52%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 8 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 28.00%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, CGNX will have a dividend payout ratio of 25.23% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Cognex's stock split on the morning of Monday, December 4th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, October 30th 2017. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, December 1st 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Cognex issued an update on its second quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $225.00 million-$245.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $235.74 million.

94 employees have rated Cognex Chief Executive Officer Robert Willett on Glassdoor.com. Robert Willett has an approval rating of 84% among the company's employees.

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Cognex trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CGNX."

Cognex's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (9.97%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (6.38%), State Street Corp (3.32%), Brown Capital Management LLC (3.03%), American Century Companies Inc. (2.32%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.91%). Insiders that own company stock include Anthony Sun, Carl Gerst, Dianne M Parrotte, Eugene G Banucci, Jerry A Schneider, Patrick Alias, Paul Todgham, Robert Willett, Sheila Marie Dipalma and Theodor Krantz.
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Shares of CGNX stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CGNX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.82.

Cognex (NASDAQ:CGNX) has a market capitalization of $9.46 billion and generates $1.01 billion in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $215.52 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.00 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,441 workers across the globe.

Cognex's mailing address is ONE VISION DRIVE, NATICK MA, 01760. The official website for the company is www.cognex.com. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at (508) 650-3000, via email at susan.conway@cognex.com, or via fax at 508-650-3333.