Cogstate Ltd
AUAUDCogstate Ltd (AU:CGS) — Health Information Services. Number of exchanges where the company shares trade: 2. On this page — price and chart, dividends, top holders and share count history.
About the company
- Website
- cogstate.com
- Investor relations
- investors.cogstate.com/
- Sector
- Healthcare · Health Information Services
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Australia
- Management
- Listed since
- 11.02.2004 (AU:CGS)
- Shares outstanding
- 172.13 M
- Free float
- 125.36 M
- Market cap
- 654.08 M AUD
- Insiders
- 40.47%
- Institutions
- 16.67%
- Legal form
- R4KK
- LEI
- 254900VP9WAWA180NC18
- P/EP/E (Price / Earnings) — how many years of the company's profit you pay for a share. Calculated: current price ÷ net earnings per share over the last 12 months. Lower means cheaper relative to profit. Not calculated when the company has a loss (—).
- 35.7
- EPSEPS (Earnings Per Share) — the company's net profit over the last 12 months divided by the number of its shares, in the currency of this listing. A negative value (red) means a loss. P/E is the share price divided by EPS.
- 0.10 AUD
- |P/B (price to book) — share price ÷ shareholders' equity per share from the latest balance sheet. Graham — as Benjamin Graham counted it: equity without goodwill, other intangible assets and preferred stock, that is tangible book value. He considered up to 1.5 acceptable for a defensive investor (green), or a product P/E × P/B up to 22.5. With negative tangible equity, Graham's P/B is not calculated.
- 7.179.45
- Graham numberGraham number — the highest price Benjamin Graham considered reasonable for a defensive investor: √(22.5 × EPS × tangible book value per share), where 22.5 = P/E 15 × P/B 1.5. A price below it (green) passes both of his limits at once. Not calculated with a loss or negative tangible equity.
- 0.92 AUD price 287% above
- Payout ratioPayout ratio — what share of net income the company pays out as dividends. Calculated: dividends paid over the last 12 months ÷ net income for the same 12 months × 100%. Up to 60% — safe margin, 60–90% — borderline, over 90% — dividend at risk of a cut. «Loss» — the company pays without a profit.
- 18.9%
- FCFFCF (Free Cash Flow) — money left to the company after operating costs and investment in equipment; dividends are safest when paid from it. Calculated: operating cash flow − capital expenditure, over the last 12 months, in the reporting currency.
- 2.20 M USD
- Payout / FCFShare of free cash flow (FCF) the company paid out as dividends: dividends paid over 12 months ÷ FCF × 100%. Up to 60% — room to spare, 60–90% — borderline, over 90% — risky. Over 100% — paid more than it earned in free cash: the gap was covered by cash reserves, new borrowing or new shares, which cannot last long.
- 102%
- DebtDebt — all loans and bonds of the company per the latest report (short- and long-term), in the reporting currency. Below — how many years the company would need to repay net debt (debt minus cash) from its free cash flow: net debt ÷ FCF. Up to 3 years — good, 3–6 — moderate, over 6 — high. «Net cash» — net debt is negative.
- 359 K USD0.2 y of FCF
- Dividend streakDividend streak — how many years in a row the company has paid dividends without a break longer than 18 months. Counted from the earliest payment of the unbroken chain until today. «+» — data history starts in 1970, so the real streak may be longer. The longer the streak, the likelier the company keeps paying through crises.
- 1 y
- Earnings, FCF and dividends paid — for the 12 months to 30.06.2026 (the company's latest report).
- Net income
- NAVNAV — net asset value by the balance sheet: the company's assets minus its liabilities, the share of the company's shareholders (without other owners' stakes in its subsidiaries). Shown per share, with P/NAV — how many times the share price exceeds NAV per share (below 1 — the share costs less than its net assets on the balance sheet). Click to see what NAV is made of and its history.
Description
Cogstate Limited, a neuroscience solutions company, engages in the creation, validation, and commercialization of digital brain health assessments worldwide. The company offers digital cognitive assessment, endpoint data quality (rater services), remote assessment, scientific consulting, healthcare cognitive screening, and research and academic collaboration solutions for various therapeutic areas, including Alzheimer's disease and dementia, preclinical Alzheimer's disease, pediatrics and rare disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, oncology, safety, and sleep and mood disorders. It also designs and provides quality assurance services in clinical trials focused on the administration, scoring, and recording of conventional brain health assessments. In addition, it develops a tool for primary care physicians and/or hospitals to assess cognitive decline. Its technology and associated services are used to quantify the effect of disease and drugs, devices, or other interventions on human subjects participating in clinical trials primarily conducted by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company serves biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, physicians, and patients. Cogstate Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Dividends
Cogstate Ltd (CGS) pays dividends once a year. Per year (12 months up to and including the latest announced payment): 0.04 AUD per share (payments: 1). That is about 1.12% of the current share price. Based on payment history, the next ex-dividend date is expected around 16.08.2027.
| Ex-date | Payment | Amount | % | Type | Ticker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | 2026-09-22 | 0.0400 AUD | 1.3/1.3 % | annual | AU:CGS |
| 2025-08-27 | — | 0.0200 AUD | 1.1/1.1 % | annual | AU:CGS |
Top holders
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'Connor (Bradley John)… | ≈3.72% | 6.4 M | 2025-10-17 |
| Ventola (P) (Other Execu… | ≈0.23% | 404 200 | 2025-06-30 |
| DFA INVESTMENT TRUST CO-… | 0.19% | 330 194 | 2026-07-31 |
| Colite (R) (Divisional O… | ≈0.16% | 275 269 | 2026-06-30 |
| Mohs (Richard) (Director… | ≈0.05% | 80 000 | 2025-09-03 |
| SEI Inst. INVESTMENTS TR… | 0.04% | 75 820 | 2026-08-31 |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSION… | 0.03% | 43 213 | 2026-07-31 |
| Old Westbury Funds Inc-O… | 0.02% | 30 244 | 2026-07-31 |
| Wenn (Kim) (Independent… | ≈0.02% | 26 799 | 2026-05-20 |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSION… | 0.01% | 19 223 | 2026-07-31 |
| SEI INSTITUTIONAL INTERN… | 0.01% | 18 413 | 2026-08-31 |
| Voya Mutual Funds-Voya M… | 0.01% | 16 993 | 2026-07-31 |
| PFM Multi-Manager Series… | 0.01% | 15 498 | 2026-06-30 |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSION… | 0.01% | 13 121 | 2026-07-31 |
| Bard Financial Services,… | 0.01% | 12 500 | 2023-09-30 |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSION… | 0.01% | 11 856 | 2026-07-31 |
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