Is the business good?
How good a business is COTY?
Coty Inc. earns −0.31% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
−0.31%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 9.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −0.40%
Operating margin · Household & Personal Products median 15% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +0.89%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 63%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −26% |
| FY2021 | −1.1% |
| FY2022 | 4.5% |
| FY2023 | 9.8% |
| FY2024 | 8.9% |
| FY2025 | 4.1% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 63%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- −0.40%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- −9.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.79B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $311M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$533M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −0.31%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Household & Personal Products
Ranks #13 of 13 by Smart Score