Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems, or computers that can `see.` Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 200,000 vision systems, representing nearly $1.5 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding time. Cognex's Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, specializes in machine vision systems that are used for automating the manufacture of a wide range of discrete items and for assuring their quality. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California, specializes in machine vision systems that are used for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, papers and plastics.
| Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $837.55M |
| Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $113.23M |
| PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) | 108.78 |
| PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 81.90 |
| PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) | -- |
| Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) | 9.62 |
| Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) | 5.48 |
| Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) | 54.14 |
| Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 14.95% |
| Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) | 11.76% |
| Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) | 6.81% |
| Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) | 5.06% |
| Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 3.52 |
| Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 2.61 |
| Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | 0.00 |
| Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) | 1.67 |
| Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $8.68 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) | $0.05 |
| Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) | $0.73 |
| Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) | $0.58 |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Technology |
| Industry | Scientific & Technical Instruments |
| Common Shares Outstanding | 171.66M |
| Free Float | 169.77M |
| Market Capitalization | $8.15B |
| Average Volume (Last 20 Days) | 1.10M |
| Beta (Past 60 Months) | 1.48 |
| Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) | 1.10% |
| Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) | 88.12% |
| Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) | $0.30 |
| Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) | 0.63% |