Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Oct 3, 2026
Coty Inc. (COTY)
A forensic read on Coty Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-1.9
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
2
Forensic signals
-4.4
P / E (ttm)
-20.2%
ROE
$2.7B
Market cap
0.55%
Dividend yield
-1.5%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern, valuation). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Coty Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -1.9, placing it in the Distress zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-0.9%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -0.9% in the latest fiscal year and slipping across FY2024–FY2026 from 3.9%. After-tax operating profit was $355M in FY2024 and ($64M) in FY2026, with operating income at 8.9% of revenue in FY2024, 4.1% in FY2025 and -1.4% in FY2026. The capital base behind it came down -18% across FY2024–FY2026, from $9.2B to $7.5B, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on. FY2026's operating profit carried a $363M asset write-down, a $237M goodwill write-off and a $800,000 restructuring charge that alone took about 6.3 points off that year's return, so more than the whole 4.8-point fall across FY2024–FY2026 is that charge landing in the latest year rather than the capital earning less. FY2025's operating profit carried a $213M asset write-down and a $77M restructuring charge that alone took about 2.5 points off that year's return; FY2025 sits between the two ends of FY2024–FY2026, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it.
$237M
FY2026–FY2026
Goodwill impairments.Took $237M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2026 ($237M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$5.81B
Revenue Growth YoY-1.5%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-2.6%
Net Margin-10.4%
Free Cash Flow$348.2M
Return on Equity-20.2%
Debt / Equity1.03x
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