COOPER-STANDARD HOLDINGS INC.

The business, in plain English

COOPER-STANDARD HOLDINGS INC. booked $2.7B of revenue in FY2025 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 11.9% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −0.2% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $2.9B (FY2011) to $2.7B (FY2025) — about −0.3% a year compounded over 14 years.

It earned 8.2% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 15-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 8.2%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 7.2%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 17/100.

The balance sheet carried $1.1B of total debt in FY2025 against $45.6M of owner earnings — roughly 24.4 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 40/100.

Put together: Business Trend is the strongest of the five filters (58/100) and Pricing Power the weakest (0/100), which is how CPS lands at 27/100 — a None moat.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.