Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. (CPS)

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Cooper-Standard Automotive 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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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025, down 2.6% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 36% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09, buying about $283 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 18 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 105 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 43% by size; a net margin of -0.2% ranks in the bottom 36%; revenue growth of 2.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 44% (its annual reports).

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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Edwards, Jeffrey S (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2012-10-16, 14.1 years (top 9% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.2 years (top 35%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 13%; 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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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $192 million against debt of $1.0 billion leaves -45.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 0.6% of revenue (bottom 19%); a gross margin of 11.9% (bottom 27%); research spending of 2.9% of revenue (bottom 27%) (its annual report).

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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.8% a year over the last three filed years against -2.6% over all 10, speeding up (top 7% of its family); the newest year grew 0.4% (bottom 37%); research spending grew 0% a year (bottom 32%); capital spending grew -12.2% a year (bottom 27%) (its annual reports). Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Sealing Systems at $1.4 billion (52%), Fluid Handling Systems at $1.3 billion (46%), Corporate at $74 million (3%); 1 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.5% below the $2.8 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 47% of its family); net income of $4 million against a prior three-year average of $165 million (top 11%); a net margin of -0.2% against -6.2% before (top 11%) (its annual reports).