The Cooper Companies manufactures and distributes contact lenses and women's health products through two main divisions. CooperVision produces various types of contact lenses designed to correct conditions including astigmatism, presbyopia, and myopia. CooperSurgical provides reproductive health solutions, including intrauterine devices, fertility treatments, genetic testing services, and biological storage options for cord blood and tissue. The company distributes its offerings through eye care professionals, hospitals, retailers, and healthcare providers.
1Y: 53.78 (-20.0%) · range 53.27–84.32
entry readiness 95 · STRONG SETUP · exit proximity 0
Value area 60.77–74.86 · 91% of 120d volume overhead · heavy supply
COO is a genuinely conflicted dossier: insider and political buying plus a strong daily-lane readiness point up, while the absolute score, trend regime and peer cluster all point down. The reconciliation turns on the contradiction between the blend's EMA/technical leg (95) and the absolute score's technical leg (4) — with the Markov trend DOWN at 90% and the lane itself only on WATCH at 0% size, the bearish structural read wins on weight-of-evidence, leaving no confirmed setup to act on.
- form4 insider cluster: 3 distinct insiders bought $1,330,790 — a real orthogonal bull tell (Insider Activity source 0.600)
- Congress net +1 buyer and earnings surprise +3.6% (source 0.176) add mild independent support
- Daily lane readiness 95 [STRONG SETUP] in ENTRY ZONE, and Buildup leg 73 show accelerating setup mechanics
- Absolute score 34/100 tagged SHORT CANDIDATE with technical leg just 4 — directly contradicts the blend's EMA 95
- Markov trend DOWN with P(stay) 90% and peer cluster CONTRADICT at lag_z +4.1 (name lags its complex badly)
- Daily lane is WATCH, size 0.0% — setup not confirmed, no entry trigger; no Monte Carlo on record to quantify edge
- Prior flag matured flat: 40d return -0.5% despite +8.2% MFE, so the move faded
Invalidated if: Read flips bullish if the daily lane confirms an entry trigger and the Markov trend rolls from DOWN to UP; it flips clearly bearish if price breaks down and the SHORT CANDIDATE technical score persists.
| Source | Score | Last seen |
|---|---|---|
| insider-activity | 0.600 | Sep 16, 2026 |
| financial-news | 0.501 | Sep 17, 2026 |
| forum-chatter | 0.222 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| earnings-surprise | 0.176 | Sep 17, 2026 |
| breakdown-signal | 0.000 | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Horizon | Return | MFE | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20d | +3.24% | +5.38% | mature |
| 40d | -0.54% | +8.17% | mature |