Coty Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells branded beauty products worldwide. It operates through two segments: the Prestige ...
Coty Inc. is one of the world's major branded beauty companies, with roots in the fragrance business and a history extending back to Paris in 1904, when Joseph Marie François Spoturno established the Coty fragrance house. The company has evolved into a multinational beauty platform serving consumers through prestige and ...Coty Inc. is one of the world's major branded beauty companies, with roots in the fragrance business and a history extending back to Paris in 1904, when Joseph Marie François Spoturno established the Coty fragrance house. The company has evolved into a multinational beauty platform serving consumers through prestige and mass-market channels across numerous countries. Coty is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker COTY and is associated with JAB Beauty B.V. Its reported headquarters address is 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, while corporate materials also identify Amsterdam, Netherlands, as its global headquarters.
The business is generally organized around two principal areas: Prestige and Consumer Beauty. Prestige products include luxury and premium fragrances, cosmetics, and skin-care offerings sold through department stores, specialty perfumeries, travel-retail and duty-free locations, e-commerce platforms, and direct-to-consumer websites. Important prestige brands include Gucci, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Chloé, Davidoff, Escada, Hugo Boss, Marc Jacobs, Tiffany & Co., philosophy, Lancaster, Orveda, and Kylie Cosmetics by Kylie Jenner. Consumer Beauty products are distributed through supermarkets, hypermarkets, pharmacies, drugstores, mid-tier department stores, traditional food and drug retailers, and online marketplaces. Brands in this area include CoverGirl, Max Factor, Rimmel, Sally Hansen, Adidas, Jovan, Nautica, Bourjois, Mexx, and other regional or licensed labels.
Coty's products require a combination of brand investment, formulation science, packaging, sourcing, manufacturing, quality control, regulatory compliance, logistics, and advertising. Fragrance bills of materials commonly include aromatic ingredients, alcohol, water, stabilizers, bottles, caps, pumps, cartons, and decorative components. Cosmetics and skin-care products add pigments, oils, waxes, emulsifiers, active ingredients, preservatives, applicators, and specialized packaging. Costs are influenced by raw-material prices, packaging complexity, contract manufacturing, transportation, retailer margins, promotional spending, royalties, research and development, and marketing campaigns. The company sells through both owned operations and third-party distributors, creating exposure to inventory levels, retailer negotiations, foreign exchange, and regional consumer demand.
The supplied data reports approximately 11,636 full-time employees, placing Coty in the 10,001-20,000 employee range. Sue Nabi is identified as CEO in the provided leadership information. Markus Strobel has been announced as Executive Chairman and interim CEO effective January 1, 2026, which is a relevant leadership transition. Coty competes in a highly competitive industry where innovation, celebrity and designer partnerships, brand desirability, product efficacy, social-media engagement, and distribution strength are important.
Financially, the supplied trailing-twelve-month data indicates approximately $2.48 billion in market capitalization and enterprise value of approximately $5.78 billion, although market values change continuously. The data shows a gross margin of about 60.7%, revenue per share of approximately $6.58, negative net income per share of approximately $0.61, and negative net profit margin of approximately 9.2%. It also indicates material leverage, with debt-to-equity of roughly 1.15 and net debt to EBITDA of approximately 32.7 on the supplied measure. These figures suggest that profitability, balance-sheet deleveraging, brand growth, operating execution, and cash generation are important areas for management and investors. Coty's long-term objectives include strengthening its prestige portfolio, expanding consumer beauty, improving innovation and productivity, increasing digital and direct-to-consumer capabilities, and creating sustainable value from its global collection of beauty brands.
Operator: Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Chelsea, and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Coty's Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2026 Question-and-Answer Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today, August 20, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time or 2:00 p.m. Central European Time. Please note that on August 19, at approximately 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time or 10:30 p.m. Central European Time, Coty issued a press release and prepared remarks webcast, which can be found on its Investor Relations website. On today's call are Markus Strobel, Executive Chairman of the Board and Interim Chief Executive Officer; and Laurent Mercier, Chief Financial Officer. I would like to remind you that many of the comments today may contain forward-looking statements. Please refer to Coty's earnings release and the reports filed with the SEC where the company lists factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements. In addition, except where noted, the discussion of Coty's financial results and Coty's expectations reflect certain adjustments as specified in the non-GAAP financial measures section of the company's release. With that, we will now open the line for questions.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] And our first question will come from Filippo Falorni with Citi.
Filippo Falorni: So I wanted to ask a bit about fiscal '27. Obviously, you characterized it a transition year and the framework you provided in the prepared remarks was helpful. But I love to hear a bit more of your KPI internally that you're looking to achieve throughout this transition year. And maybe talk a little bit more about the potential sources of upside, both from a top line and profit standpoint and any risk that you see as you think about this transition year?
Markus Strobel: Okay. Yes, Filippo, you probably know that in the last couple of quarters, our sellout has been trailing below the category, okay? And obviously, that has led to lower sell-in and has led to all of the problems that we have. So our objective is to drive sell-out and to drive market share. This is new thinking for the organization. The organization was traditionally sell-in focused, and it takes some time to this adaptation. So we believe, as we outlined in the first quarter, probably see a similar trend that we have seen in the last 2 quarters, but then we want to sequentially improve that. We have some strong incremental innovation coming up. We have a more disciplined approach to spending. We focus on fewer bets. And we believe that this will, over time, decrease the sell-out gap versus the market. Now the question is how long this will take? I cannot answer you that today. If this takes -- if this catches on faster, there will be upside. If this takes longer, then we better manage. And so far, we have tried to give a 50-50 balanced picture on that. But it all depends on how fast …