Friday, May 1, 2020

Cognex Already Trading On Recovery Prospects

Investors had a roughly six-week window of opportunity earlier this year to buy Cognex (CGNX) at what I think is a good price relative to the company’s financial prospects. Since then, the shares have not only participated in the post-panic recovery, but also picked up some momentum as a reshoring play. The company posting a stronger than expected first quarter and management sounding fairly bullish on the company’s recovery prospects after COVID-19 has only added to that momentum.

I’m skeptical regarding the reshoring angle, but I am still very bullish about the long-term prospects of Cognex and its machine vision technology as an enabling technology for further automation of factories, warehouses, and logistics chains. Valuation has moved back to what is more typical for high-quality industrial companies, making this more of a hold in my mind than a buy.

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Cognex Already Trading On Recovery Prospects

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