The Cooper Companies, Inc. (COO)

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2023-09-12) (its current reports).

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.1 billion in fiscal 2017 to $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 8.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 8% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-31, The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 14% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 10 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $3 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-31, The Cooper Companies, Inc. earned about 5 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 22 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 34 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s standing among 8 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 31% by size; a net margin of 9.2% ranks in the top 19%; revenue growth of 7.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 44% (its annual reports).

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is White, Albert G III (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2018-05-03, 8.5 years (top 8% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.7 years (top 8%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 21%; 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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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $111 million against debt of $2.5 billion leaves -18.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.6% of revenue (top 19%); a gross margin of 65.5% (top 42%); research spending of 4.2% of revenue (bottom 8%) (its annual report).

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.3% a year over the last three filed years against 8.4% over all 9, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew 5.1% (bottom 44%); research spending grew 16% a year (top 8%); capital spending grew 14.4% a year (top 31%) (its annual reports). The Cooper Companies, Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Coopervision at $2.7 billion, Cooper Vision at $2.7 billion, Coopersurgical at $1.3 billion, and 1 more. 4 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 34% of revenue (its annual report).

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $4.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.2% below the $4.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 44% of its family); net income of $375 million against a prior three-year average of $357 million (bottom 44%); a net margin of 9.2% against 10% before (bottom 31%) (its annual reports).