Covista Inc. (CVSA)

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Covista 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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Covista Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.2 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.0 billion in fiscal 2026, up 5.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 28% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-06-30, Covista Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 7.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 65% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 17 sales (17 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-16, buying about $4 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-06-30, Covista Inc. earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 37 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 52 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Covista Inc.'s standing among 41 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 16% by size; a net margin of 12.9% ranks in the top 23%; revenue growth of 10.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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Covista Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Beard,, Stephen W. (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-09-10, 5.2 years (bottom 42% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 27%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (top 16%; 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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Covista Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $406 million against debt of $663 million leaves -8.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20.1% of revenue (top 11%); a gross margin of 57.3% (top 28%) (its annual report).

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Covista Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 10.4% a year over the last three filed years against 5.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 27% of its family); the newest year grew 9.3% (top 37%); capital spending grew 44% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). Covista Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2026: Walden University at $805 million (41%), Chamberlain University at $750 million (38%), Medical and Veterinary at $399 million (20%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Covista Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 1.6% below the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 40% of its family); net income of $252 million against a prior three-year average of $156 million (top 37%); a net margin of 12.9% against 9.4% before (top 40%) (its annual reports).