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CVSA NYSE

Covista Inc.
1W: +4.0% 1M: -6.4% 3M: -3.1% YTD: +8.3%
$125.48
+2.16 (+1.75%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±3.4%
$117 $121 $126 $130 $134
NYSE · Consumer Defensive · Education & Training Services · Tech Score Sell · Power 42 · $4.3B mcap · 33M float · 1.06% daily turnover · Short 80% of daily vol

Edge Score

Quantitative competitive moat analysis scoring five pillars of durable advantage — cost leadership, brand intangibles, switching costs, network effects, and efficient scale — using industry percentile rankings on a 0–100 scale.

WEAK EDGE
52.0 / 100
NoneWeakNarrowWide
Primary source: Efficient Scale  ·  ROIC: 7.6%
Cost Advantage
59
Intangibles
43
Switching Cost
53
Network Effect
45
Scale ★
63
The Edge Score quantifies a company's competitive moat using five pillars: Cost Advantage (20%, operating margin and SG&A efficiency vs industry peers), Intangible Assets (25%, gross margin premium, R&D intensity, brand pricing power), Switching Costs (25%, revenue stability, earnings consistency, customer retention proxied by operating leverage), Network Effects (15%, revenue growth with expanding margins, market share dominance), and Efficient Scale (15%, market concentration, ROIC sustainability). Each pillar is scored 0–100 using industry percentile rankings, then weighted into a composite. Wide ≥ 70, Narrow ≥ 55, Weak ≥ 40, None < 40. CVSA shows a Weak competitive edge (52.0/100) — limited structural advantages that may face competitive pressure. The primary source of advantage is Efficient Scale. ROIC of 7.6% suggests modest returns relative to capital deployed.

Analyst Insights

Wall Street analyst consensus based on price targets and buy/sell/hold recommendations from institutional research coverage over the trailing 12 months.

Analyst Price Targets
$175
Low
$175
Avg Target
$175
High
Based on 1 analyst since Aug 6, 2026 earnings
Analyst Recommendations
Strong Buy: 0Buy: 1Hold: 1Sell: 0Strong Sell: 0
Rating Summary
ConsensusBuy
Avg Target$175.00
Analysts1
Consensus Change History
DateFieldFromTo
2026-02-28 _new_coverage None ADDED
Price Target Change History
DateFirmAnalystOldNewChangeUpside @ CallStock@Call
2026-08-07 Barrington — Initiated $175 — +24.5% $140.62
2026-05-11 Truist Financial — Initiated $140 — +6.3% $131.73

Financial Rating

Composite financial health rating (A+ to F) based on discounted cash flow valuation, return on equity, return on assets, debt-to-equity leverage, and relative P/E and P/B multiples.

B+
Oct 02, 2026
DCF
4
ROE
4
ROA
5
D/E
1
P/E
3
P/B
2
The Financial Rating evaluates six fundamental factors — discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation, return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), debt-to-equity leverage (D/E), and relative price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) multiples — each scored 1–5. CVSA receives an overall rating of B+. Strongest factors: DCF (4/5), ROE (4/5), ROA (5/5). Areas of concern: D/E (1/5), P/B (2/5).
Rating Change History
DateFromTo
2026-09-04 B B+
2026-09-02 B+ B
2026-08-31 B B+
2026-08-26 B+ B
2026-07-22 A- B+
2026-06-29 A+ A-
2026-06-25 A- A+
2026-05-04 A A-
2026-04-30 A- A
2026-04-01 A A-

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 58 Grade B
Profitability
50
Balance Sheet
65
Earnings Quality
70
Growth
—
Value
36
Momentum
—
Safety
90
Cash Flow
71
The InsiderStreet Scorecard rates companies across eight dimensions: Profitability (margins, ROA, ROE), Balance Sheet (leverage, liquidity, coverage), Earnings Quality (accruals, cash conversion), Growth (revenue and earnings trajectory), Value (P/E, P/B, earnings yield, Graham criteria), Momentum (revenue and earnings acceleration), Safety (Altman Z-Score risk adjustment), and Cash Flow (operating cash flow quality, FCF conversion, cash coverage). The overall score blends 35% quality, 35% value, and 30% momentum, with a penalty for distress-zone Altman scores. CVSA scores highest in Safety (90/100) and lowest in Value (36/100). A grade of B indicates above-average fundamentals with room for improvement in select areas.

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
3.62
Safe Zone
Piotroski F-Score
4/9
✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Beneish M-Score
—
—
Ohlson O-Score
-8.00
Bankruptcy prob: 0.0%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
A
Score: 70.1/100
Earnings Quality
75/100
OCF/NI: 2.74x
Accruals: -6.5%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. CVSA scores 3.62, placing it in the Safe Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Bankruptcy is statistically unlikely within the next two years. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. CVSA scores 4/9, indicating moderate financial health — some areas of strength offset by weaknesses in others. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. CVSA's implied 0.0% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. CVSA receives an estimated rating of A (score: 70.1/100). The Earnings Quality score measures how well reported earnings are backed by real cash. It evaluates the operating cash flow to net income ratio (OCF/NI ≥ 1.0 means every dollar of earnings is cash-backed) and the accruals ratio (the gap between earnings and cash flow relative to assets — lower is better). CVSA's score of 75/100 is high — cash flows strongly support reported earnings.

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
16.62x
PEG
0.72x
P/S
2.19x
P/B
2.95x
P/FCF
16.47x
P/OCF
13.97x
EV/EBITDA
21.01x
EV/Revenue
4.89x
EV/EBIT
25.67x
EV/FCF
18.37x
Earnings Yield
2.62%
FCF Yield
6.07%
Shareholder Yield
1.56%
Graham Number
$55.25
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. At 16.6x earnings, CVSA trades at a reasonable valuation. Graham's intrinsic value formula yields $55.25 per share, 127% below the current price.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
0.681
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
0.883
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
0.190
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.328
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
2.083
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
7.8%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. CVSA's ROE of 7.8% is driven by Asset Turnover (0.328), indicating efficient use of assets to generate revenue.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
$27.72
Price/Value
4.50x
Margin of Safety
-349.75%
Premium
349.75%
Assessment
Overvalued
Graham's classic formula uses analyst-projected growth to estimate a fair P/E (8.5 + 2g). Our adjusted version replaces that projection with CVSA's realized 0.0% 3-year EPS CAGR, capped at 15% — demonstrated performance rather than forecasts, held to a rate companies have historically sustained. CVSA trades at a 350% premium to its adjusted intrinsic value of $27.72, suggesting the market is pricing in future growth beyond what historical earnings support. The adjusted fair P/E of 8.5x compares to the current market P/E of 16.6x.

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 172 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$125.58
Median 1Y
$0.00
5th Pctile
$0.00
95th Pctile
$0.00
Ann. Volatility
793.0%
Analyst Target
$175.00
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical Analyst target
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
ROE 3.1% 7.8% 7.84%
ROA 1.5% 3.8% 3.76%
ROIC 3.5% 7.6% 7.59%
ROCE 4.2% 7.8% 7.79%
Gross Margin 56.7% 56.8% 56.77%
Operating Margin 18.9% 19.3% 19.26%
Net Margin 8.5% 14.3% 14.30%
EBITDA Margin 23.1% 23.5% 23.47%
FCF Margin 34.1% 26.6% 26.62%
OCF Margin 38.2% 31.4% 31.38%
ROIC Economic snapshot only 6.33%
Cash ROA snapshot only 10.29%
Cash ROIC snapshot only 15.94%
CROIC snapshot only 13.52%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only 14.94%
Pretax Margin snapshot only 16.83%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 0.00%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 37.66%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 1.99%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
P/E Ratio 96.28 38.23 16.620
P/S Ratio 8.23 4.38 2.185
P/B Ratio 2.94 3.00 2.953
P/FCF 24.16 16.47 16.472
P/OCF 21.53 13.97 13.973
EV/EBITDA 40.91 21.01 21.009
EV/Revenue 9.44 4.89 4.889
EV/EBIT 50.19 25.67 25.666
EV/FCF 27.70 18.37 18.370
Earnings Yield 1.0% 2.6% 2.62%
FCF Yield 4.1% 6.1% 6.07%
PEG Ratio snapshot only 0.724
EV/OCF snapshot only 15.583
EV/Gross Profit snapshot only 8.615
Acquirers Multiple snapshot only 25.604
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 1.56%
Graham Number snapshot only $55.25
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Current Ratio 0.70 1.09 1.093
Quick Ratio 0.70 1.09 1.093
Debt/Equity 0.54 0.63 0.626
Net Debt/Equity 0.43 0.35 0.345
Debt/Assets 0.27 0.30 0.301
Debt/EBITDA 6.55 3.94 3.936
Net Debt/EBITDA 5.23 2.17 2.170
Interest Coverage 6.72 8.58 8.580
Equity Multiplier 2.01 2.08 2.083
Cash Ratio snapshot only 0.681
Debt Service Coverage snapshot only 10.482
Cash to Debt snapshot only 0.449
FCF to Debt snapshot only 0.291
Defensive Interval snapshot only 564.7 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Asset Turnover 0.18 0.33 0.328
Inventory Turnover — — —
Receivables Turnover 2.77 5.83 5.829
Payables Turnover 2.17 3.43 3.426
DSO 132 63 62.6 days
DIO 0 0 0.0 days
DPO 168 107 106.5 days
Cash Conversion Cycle -37 -44 -43.9 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 1.949
Cash Velocity snapshot only 2.433
Capital Intensity snapshot only 3.048
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Revenue Stability — — —
Earnings Stability — — —
Margin Stability — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.000
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.000
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — —
ROE Trend — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate 3.1% 7.8% 7.84%
Internal Growth Rate 1.5% 3.9% 3.91%
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
OCF/Net Income 4.47 2.74 2.736
FCF/OCF 0.89 0.85 0.848
FCF/Net Income snapshot only 2.321
OCF/EBITDA snapshot only 1.348
CapEx/Revenue 4.2% 4.8% 4.76%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 1.127
Accruals Ratio -0.05 -0.07 -0.065
Sloan Accruals snapshot only -0.129
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only 6.592
Earnings Quality Score snapshot only 0.750
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Dividend Yield 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Dividend/Share $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Payout Ratio 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
FCF Payout Ratio 0.0% 0.0% 0.00%
Total Payout Ratio 1.6% 59.5% 59.55%
Div. Increase Streak — — —
Chowder Number — — —
Buyback Yield 1.7% 1.6% 1.56%
Net Buyback Yield 1.7% 1.5% 1.54%
Total Shareholder Return 1.7% 1.5% 1.54%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 0.53 0.68 0.681
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) 0.85 0.88 0.883
EBIT Margin 0.19 0.19 0.190
Asset Turnover 0.18 0.33 0.328
Equity Multiplier 2.01 2.08 2.083
Per Share
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $1.20 $3.26 $3.26
Book Value/Share $39.22 $41.60 $42.49
Tangible Book/Share $-10.18 $-7.75 $-7.75
Revenue/Share $14.00 $28.43 $57.42
FCF/Share $4.77 $7.57 $11.54
OCF/Share $5.35 $8.92 $13.82
Cash/Share $4.28 $11.69 $11.94
EBITDA/Share $3.23 $6.62 $6.62
Debt/Share $21.17 $26.05 $26.05
Net Debt/Share $16.89 $14.36 $14.36
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Altman Z-Score — — 3.624
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only 6.724
Piotroski F-Score 4 4 4
Beneish M-Score — — —
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -7.997
Net-Net WC snapshot only $-26.29
EVA snapshot only $-46866362.68
Credit
Metric Trend Q3'26 Q4'26 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only A
Credit Score 56.24 70.06 70.062
Credit Grade snapshot only 6
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 150.000
Industry Credit Rank snapshot only 57
Sector Credit Rank snapshot only 60

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