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Coats Group plc (COA) Share Price & Analysis
COA Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- GBX 83.15 - GBX 85.05
- 52-Week Range
- GBX 73.15 - GBX 98.10
- Previous Close
- GBX 84.15
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 2.32M
- Market Cap
- GBP 1.61B
- Enterprise Value
- GBP 2.23B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- GBP 184.15M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- GBP 1.11B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 21.0
- Beta
- 1.12
- Next Earnings
- Mar 11, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 0.04
- Last Dividend Ex-Date
- Oct 15, 2026
- Dividend Yield
- 2.95%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Market Outperformance And Share Gains
Growing organically while the core markets contract indicates resilient customer positioning and execution. Continued share gains can support durable revenue growth, improve scale benefits, and reinforce Coats’ role as a preferred supplier across global apparel and footwear manufacturing.
Stronger Cash Generation
The substantial improvement in operating and free cash flow strengthens internal funding capacity for investment, debt reduction and shareholder distributions. Cash conversion that broadly supported earnings in prior years also provides evidence that reported profitability can translate into usable financial resources.
OrthoLite Synergy And Growth Potential
The OrthoLite acquisition adds a quantified multi-year synergy opportunity beyond immediate cost savings. Delivering these benefits could expand margins, broaden Coats’ capabilities in footwear materials, and create additional structural revenue growth through cross-selling and market expansion.
Bears Say
Acquisition-related Finance Burden
Higher acquisition funding costs are currently absorbing part of the operating improvement and reducing earnings available to shareholders. Until leverage falls and synergies offset financing expense, interest burden may constrain EPS growth and limit financial flexibility for further strategic investment.
Structural End-market Weakness
Depressed industry volumes can constrain customers’ production and therefore limit demand for Coats’ threads and components. Even with share gains, prolonged weakness in its main end markets may restrict revenue growth, operating leverage and the pace at which margins can improve.
OrthoLite Capacity-related Execution Risk
Capacity constraints at an acquired operation can delay the commercial realization of OrthoLite’s strategic benefits and weaken near-term revenue momentum. Resolving the issue is important because sustained execution problems could defer synergies, affect customer service and increase integration complexity.
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Company Description
Coats Group plc
Coats Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in thread manufacturing, structural components for apparel and footwear, and performance materials worldwide. The company provides threads, yarns, zips, composites, structural components, insoles, fabrics, and trims for use in apparel comprising children's wear, denims, intimate and underwear, ladieswear, leather wear, menswear, sports and activewear, and workwear and uniforms; backpacks, handbags, suitcases, laptop, travel, and trolley bags, as well as travel belts; dress and casual, protective, and sports performance footwear; home textiles, mattresses and bedding, outdoor goods, and sporting goods; cut protection, fire services, healthcare PPE, industrial thermal, and military purposes; automotive, marine, and tyre cord applications; telecoms and energy cables; and tea bags, and medical and filtration purposes. It offers its products under the Admiral, Aptan, Aquamelt, Astra, Atlantis, Brio, Coats Eco-B, Classic, Corus, Dabond, Dolanit, Drybond, Dual Duty, Dymax, EcoCycle, EcoRegen, Eloflex, Epic, Firefly, Flamemaster, Glasmo, Gral, Gramax, Helios, Hemseal, Itero, Linen, Looks, Lucence, Magellan, Match, Monobond, Neophil, Nylbond, Nymo, Polymatic, Prolene, Protos, Pyrostar, Seamsoft, Secura, Signal, Surfilor, Sylko, Team, Terko Satin, Tre Cerchi, Tristar, Trusew, Ultimax, Ultra Dee, Ultra Lock, Armoren, CoatsKnit, FlamePro, Gotex, RecLID Teabag, Stricose FH, Ultrabloc, Webflex, XTRU, Lattice, Synergex, Coats M, Coats P, Coats RT, Coats Pullers, Coats S, Coats Connect, and Coats Signal brands. The company was formerly known as Guinness Peat Group plc and changed its name to Coats Group plc in March 2015. Coats Group plc was founded in 1755 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
- Sector
- Consumercyclical
- Industry
- Manufacturing - Textiles
- CEO
- David Paja
- Employees
- 19,000
- Website
- www.coats.com
- Address
- 14 Aldermanbury Square, London, GL, EC2V 7HS, GB
Coats Group plc (COA) Earnings & Revenues
COA Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call conveyed a broadly positive operational and strategic performance despite a challenging macro backdrop. Key strengths included market outperformance (1% organic growth against mid-single-digit market declines), maintained near-20% group EBIT margin, identified significant OrthoLite synergies (both cost and material incremental sales synergies), strong cash generation (H1 free cash flow $30m) and increased dividend. Challenges were mainly acquisition-related (OrthoLite short-term revenue softness from capacity constraints), higher interest costs and a modest decline in EPS and some divisional margin pressure driven by strategic investments. Management reiterated unchanged guidance, confidence in H2 improvement and a clear plan to deliver additional cost benefits and revenue synergies.
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Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 17 | 5 | 0 |
| Technical Analysis | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |







