Cohen & Company Inc (COHN)

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Cohen & Company Inc's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Cohen & Company Inc's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $55 million in fiscal 2016 to $276 million in fiscal 2025, up 19.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 70% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 5 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Cohen & Company Inc's diluted share count grew about 61.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 63% of its net income over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cohen & Company Inc earned about 28 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 93 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 5.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cohen & Company Inc's standing among 29 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $276 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 17% by size; a net margin of 5.2% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 83.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 12% (its annual reports).

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Cohen & Company Inc's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Brafman, Lester Raymond (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-02-14, 7.7 years (top 31% of its family); the 8 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 16.9 years (top 3%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 8 people in charge now (top 7%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Cohen & Company Inc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $57 million against debt of $33 million leaves 3.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 40% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.5% of revenue (bottom 33%) (its annual report).

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Cohen & Company Inc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 83.8% a year over the last three filed years against 19.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 246.5% (top 9%); capital spending grew 29.8% a year (top 25%) (its annual reports). Cohen & Company Inc reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Capital Markets at $235 million, Principal Investing at $30 million, Asset Management at $11 million. 2 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 85% of revenue (its annual report).

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Cohen & Company Inc's newest year against its own record: revenue of $276 million in fiscal 2025 came in 158.6% above the $107 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 6% of its family); net income of $14 million against a prior three-year average of $6 million (top 10%); a net margin of 5.2% against -12.2% before (top 18%) (its annual reports).