CGNX Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Cognex | NASDAQ:CGNX)

Cognex Corp provides machine vision products that help automate manufacturing processes. The firm's products include vision software, vision systems, vision sensors, and ID products. Vision software combines vision tools with a customer's cameras and peripheral equipment and can help with several vision tasks, including part location, identification, measurement, and robotic guidance. Vision systems combine a camera, processor, and vision software into a single package. Vision sensors deliver simple, low-cost solutions for common vision applications, such as checking the size of parts. Geographically, it operates in United states, Europe, Greater China and others. Cognex generates the maximum proportion of its sales in the United States and Europe.

Cognex trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CGNX.

As of August 7, 2026, CGNX stock price declined to $66.89 with 1,932,032 million shares trading.

CGNX has a beta of 1.32, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CGNX has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CGNX has a market cap of $11.25 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Cognex reported $291 million in Revenue and $.45 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-759,552 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, CGNX traded as high as $72.88 and as low as $22.67.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CGNX belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, VB, VGT, VBK.

CGNX has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +62.5% while the SPY ETF gained +23.5%. However, in the short term, CGNX had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +1.6% vs +6.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CGNX shares have fared better than the market returning +7.8% compared to SPY +4.6%.

CGNX support price is $64.91 and resistance is $69.85 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CGNX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.