NASDAQ:CGNXCognex Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cognex's stock was trading at $39.40 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CGNX stock has increased by 53.4% and is now trading at $60.42. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cognex in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Cognex.

Cognex is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Cognex.

Cognex Co. (NASDAQ:CGNX) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 27th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.08 by $0.03. The scientific and technical instruments company had revenue of $167.20 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $154.89 million. Cognex had a net margin of 26.58% and a return on equity of 14.96%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.17 EPS. View Cognex's earnings history.

Cognex declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, April 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.055 per share on Friday, May 29th. This represents a $0.22 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 14th. View Cognex's dividend history.

Shares of Cognex split on the morning of Monday, December 4th 2017. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, October 30th 2017. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, December 1st 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Cognex stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Cognex announced that its board has approved a share buyback plan on Monday, October 29th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $200,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 2.8% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

11 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Cognex's stock. Their forecasts range from $36.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate Cognex's stock price to reach $48.90 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.1%. View analysts' price targets for Cognex.

News stories about CGNX stock have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cognex earned a news impact score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the scientific and technical instruments company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Cognex.

Cognex saw a drop in short interest during the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,770,000 shares, a drop of 17.6% from the May 31st total of 8,220,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,340,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.1 days. Approximately 4.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Cognex's Current Options Chain.

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

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One share of CGNX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $60.42.

Cognex has a market capitalization of $10.37 billion and generates $725.63 million in revenue each year. The scientific and technical instruments company earns $203.87 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.16 on an earnings per share basis. Cognex employs 2,267 workers across the globe.

The official website for Cognex is www.cognex.com.

Cognex's mailing address is ONE VISION DRIVE, NATICK MA, 01760. The scientific and technical instruments company can be reached via phone at 508-650-3000 or via email at [email protected]