“Dollars based on the closing-date foreign exchange rate) of net customer relationships to the disposal group based on the relative fair value attributable to the disposal group using an income approach, which the Company determined to be the most appropriate…”10-Q · Aug 6, 2026 ↗
Cognex Corporation
CGNX
Market read
Cognex Corporation's current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 25 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 24.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Gross margin was 71% of revenue in Q1 2026 vs 67% in Q1 2025, attributed to a more favorable end-market mix and increased cost efficiencies from higher sales volume.
- Cognex reported broad demand in consumer electronics, semiconductors, packaging, and logistics, while automotive remained soft in Europe.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if CGNX's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 25 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 1 directly disclosed connection is confirming.
- Revenue increased 24.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 10.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 119.1% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Gross margin was 71% of revenue in Q1 2026 vs 67% in Q1 2025, attributed to a more favorable end-market mix and increased cost efficiencies from higher sales volume.
- Cognex reported broad demand in consumer electronics, semiconductors, packaging, and logistics, while automotive remained soft in Europe.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +8.7% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +3.8 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 2.15x in the latest annual period.
- Tariffs and trade policy has repeated favorable evidence across 3 filings.
No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.
No credible peer-relative valuation comparison is available yet.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
64.22Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“The increase was primarily due to more favorable end-market mix and increased cost efficiencies from higher sales volume, slightly offset by the impact of tariffs.”10-Q · May 7, 2026 ↗
“The legislation is expected to result in a full-year cash tax benefit estimated between $12 million and $15 million, primarily driven by the Company's ability to immediately expense research and development costs.”10-K · Feb 12, 2026 ↗
“The decrease in capital expenditures from 2024 was primarily due to the timing of planned business systems projects associated with our sales processes.”10-K · Feb 12, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 10.9× · EV/sales 10.7×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for CGNX. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment · baseline
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-05-07 against the comparable filing from 2025-05-01.
What improved
- Revenue increased 24.3% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 10.2 percentage points.
- Net income increased 119.1% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“The increase was primarily due to more favorable end-market mix and increased cost efficiencies from higher sales volume, slightly offset by the impact of tariffs.”
“The increase was due to broad-based demand across our major end markets, including revenue growth across our consumer electronics customer base, higher revenue from semiconductor and packaging customers, and continued growth with large logistics customers.”
“Three-months Ended April 5, 2026 March 30, 2025 $ Change % Change (unaudited) Americas $ 121,301 $ 99,374 $ 21,927 22 % Percentage of total revenue 45 % 46 % Europe $ 63,815 $ 46,790 $ 17,025 36 % Percentage of total revenue 24 % 22 % Greater China $ 37,759 $ 26,946 $ 10,813 40 % Percentage of total revenue 14 % 12 % Other Asia $ 45,562 $ 42,926 $ 2,636 6 % Percentage of total revenue 17 % 20 % Total revenue $ 268,437 $ 216,036 $ 52,401 24 % Changes in revenue from a geographic perspective were as follows: 23 • Revenue from customers based in the Americas increased by 22% for the three-month period in 2026 as compared to the same period in 2025 due to stronger performance across our major e...”
Retrospective baseline calibration. It was generated after the filing date and is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind CGNX
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
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“Competitors in our fixed industrial scanning and machine vision business include Cognex, Keyence, and SICK.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
CGNX is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Semiconductors. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.