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Coty

COTY
29
Household & Personal Products · Consumer Defensive
Also trades as: 0I4A.L
Winston Score
29
Winston is worried
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Weak
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Winston Score History

The full picture

Coty Inc. makes beauty products — things like perfume, makeup, and skincare. It owns well-known brands including CoverGirl, Rimmel, and Hugo Boss fragrances, and it also licenses names like Gucci and Burberry to make high-end perfumes. The company sells to everyday shoppers through drugstores and mass retailers, as well as to luxury buyers through department stores and specialty shops.

Coty earns money by selling these products directly to retailers and through its own channels in over 125 countries, making it one of the larger beauty companies in the world. Its main competitive edge comes from its portfolio of licensed luxury fragrance brands, though those licenses must be renewed and can be lost. The company carries a significant amount of debt from past acquisitions, which limits its financial flexibility, and rebuilding profit margins while managing that debt load is the central challenge facing the business going forward.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+1.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-98.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

Insider Activity

57.3%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$176M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

Coty is growing revenue at 1% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
72.5%
Premium pricing power — 72.5% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-32.5%
Losing money on operations — -32.5%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-2.4%
Weak — -2.4% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
-1.5%
Shrinking sales (-1.5% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
2/8 quarters
Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
6.0%
Thin free cash flow (6.0%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.06
Conservative — low debt load (0.06)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
no trend
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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