Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.

CCOI Communication Services Telecom Services

Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $975.8 million, down 5.82% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 4.34%, EPS grew 214.9%, free cash flow grew 288.4% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

8.07 0.28 −3.35%
Market cap
$427.7M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−4.7×
Dividend yield
0.99%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
0.17
Beneish M
−2.99
Dividend safety
0/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 1.00
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 1 4 — — 4 — 2 2 — — 2 —
Insider Ownership 0.00%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 427.66
Revenue 957.22
Net Income (45.23)
Free Cash Flow 81.24
Net Debt 1,935.54
Current Ratio 0.63 (below 1: weak)
Debt/Equity (67.54) (negative: negative equity)
P/E ratio 0.00
Fwd P/E (4.65) (negative: loss-making)
P/S ratio 0.40
P/B ratio 0.00
Past 5Y EPS Growth —
This Y EPS Growth 70.08% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth (152.90%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y revenue growth (3.22%) (below 0%: weak)
Next 5Y EPS Growth 14.95%

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Valuation vs history

P/S against its own 10 years 0.26%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 0.26%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 0.35%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate 0.08
Annual Dividend Yield 0.99%
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 0.08
0.02
0.02
0.02
2025 3.05
1.01
1.01
1.02
0.02
2024 3.92
0.97
0.98
0.99
1.00
2023 3.76
0.93
0.94
0.95
0.96
2022 4.41
0.86
0.86
0.88
0.91
0.92
2021 3.17
0.76
0.78
0.81
0.83
2020 2.78
0.66
0.68
0.71
0.73
2019 2.44
0.58
0.60
0.62
0.64
2018 2.12
0.50
0.52
0.54
0.56
2017 1.80
0.42
0.44
0.46
0.48
2016 1.51
0.36
0.37
0.38
0.40
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 114 228 205 370
Receivables 135 97 88 86
Inventory — — — —
Other 184 83 90 85
514 482 451 606
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 48 40 31 36
ST’ Debt — — — 746
Other 72 1 — —
373 253 221 960

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 9.21% 11.43% 17.62%
Cash Flow 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Earnings 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 239 236 — — —
’25 247 246 242 241 976
’24 266 260 257 252 1,036
’23 154 240 275 272 941
’22 149 148 150 152 600
’21 147 148 148 147 590
’20 141 141 142 144 568
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 15 3 — — —
’25 36 (44) 3 (6) (11)
’24 19 (22) (20) 15 (9)
’23 36 83 (52) (49) 17
’22 49 34 54 36 174
’21 47 40 47 36 170
’20 28 41 33 38 140
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (31) 189 — — —
’25 (22) (100) (33) (43) (198)
’24 (22) (71) (79) (32) (204)
’23 13 45 (78) (92) (112)
’22 31 17 30 17 95
’21 32 23 25 21 100
’20 16 27 20 22 84
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.83) 1.38 — — —
’25 (1.09) (1.21) (0.87) (0.64) (3.80)
’24 (1.38) (0.68) (1.33) (0.91) (4.28)
’23 0.13 23.65 (1.20) 4.17 26.62
’22 0.02 0.24 (0.17) 0.02 0.11
’21 0.41 (0.05) 0.28 0.39 1.03
’20 0.20 0.18 (0.11) (0.14) 0.13
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

2.4
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 29.65 37.85 35.75 43.96 53.20 56.38 46.75 56.66 50.80 15.96

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 43.61 54.85 57.65 66.67 92.96 80.50 74.08 76.69 86.76 84.06
People
People Employees 897 928 978 686 1,083 1,001 1,076 1,947 1,916 1,833
Revenue/emp, $m 0.50 0.52 0.53 0.80 0.52 0.59 0.56 0.48 0.54 0.53
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 447 485 520 546 568 590 600 941 1,036 976
Gross margin, % 56.58 56.87 57.80 59.76 61.42 61.62 61.95 42.16 38.05 45.18
EBT 24 31 41 53 10 71 26 1,219 (260) (245)
EBT margin, % 5.43 6.41 7.96 9.64 1.82 12.11 4.40 129.60 (25.06) (25.10)
Net income 15 6 29 38 6 48 5 1,273 (204) (182)
Depreciation 76 77 83 82 85 91 94 205 277 258
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 10.01 10.82 11.49 11.99 12.36 12.71 12.79 19.86 21.75 20.36
Earnings 0.33 0.13 0.63 0.82 0.14 1.04 0.11 26.88 (4.28) (3.80)
Cash flow 2.42 2.49 2.96 3.27 3.05 3.67 3.71 0.37 (0.18) (0.22)
Capex (1.01) (1.02) (1.10) (1.03) (1.22) (1.51) (1.68) (2.74) (4.09) (3.91)
Free cash flow 1.41 1.47 1.85 2.24 1.84 2.16 2.02 (2.37) (4.28) (4.13)
Book value (1.19) (2.29) (3.29) (4.47) (6.38) (8.04) (11.06) 12.87 4.68 (1.33)
Shares, m 45 45 45 46 46 46 47 47 48 48
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 123.09 343.46 70.64 80.26 427.64 69.70 524.91 2.83 0.00 0.00
P/S 4.18 4.13 3.94 5.49 4.84 5.76 4.51 3.85 3.54 1.06
P/B 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.94 16.47 0.00
EV/Sales 5.13 5.10 4.94 6.50 6.09 7.10 6.16 5.32 5.34 3.35
EV/FCF 36.53 37.55 30.57 34.86 41.00 41.75 38.96 (44.59) (27.16) (16.51)
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 108 112 134 149 140 170 174 17 (9) (11)
Capex (45) (46) (50) (47) (56) (70) (79) (130) (195) (188)
Free cash flow 63 66 84 102 84 100 95 (112) (204) (198)
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 260 232 275 386 362 329 246 140 229 230
Total debt 698 719 796 953 1,080 1,121 1,231 1,366 1,957 2,311
Net debt 423 472 520 554 709 792 955 1,252 1,729 2,106
Shareholders’ equity (53) (103) (149) (204) (293) (373) (519) 610 223 (64)
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 2.13 0.81 3.95 4.49 0.64 4.85 0.52 60.33 (6.39) (5.81)
ROIC 10.81 12.85 14.57 17.90 16.09 17.77 16.31 (4.34) (6.33) (3.09)
ROE (45.57) (7.54) (22.79) (21.28) (2.50) (14.46) (1.15) 2,801.11 (49.03) (229.15)
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. vs peers in Telecom Services (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

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GLIBA Liberty Capital Corporation $818.6M — (loss-making) 6.5× 0.00% −57.45% (below 0%: shrinking) −77.36% (below 0%: shrinking) 47.51% 11.11% Compare
SHEN Shenandoah Telecommunications Co $566.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +5.53% (above 0%: growing) n/m +30.29% (above 0%: growing) 65.01% (1.09%) Compare
CCOI Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. $427.7M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −4.34% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +288.37% (above 0%: growing) 46.93% 50.49%
ATNI ATN International, Inc. $398.3M 2.5× 41.5× +1.77% (above 0%: growing) n/m +71.51% (above 0%: growing) 56.94% 129.93% Compare
OPTU Optimum Communications, Inc. $365.5M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −5.75% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −359.11% (below 0%: shrinking) 70.96% 8.21% Compare
GOGO Gogo Inc. $304.9M 2,130× 11.7× −1.43% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −34.40% (below 0%: shrinking) 42.01% 13.31% Compare
CXDO Crexendo Inc. $188.5M 39.1× 43.0× +48.90% (above 0%: growing) −25.00% (below 0%: shrinking) +115.43% (above 0%: growing) 65.69% 4.28% Compare
Median of peers $482.4M 39.1× 41.5× +0.89% −57.45% −2.05% 52.23% 10.07%

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Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (CCOI) key facts

  • Concern: Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $975.8 million, down 5.82% from fiscal 2024.
  • Concern: Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. reported a net loss of $182.2 million, or a loss of $3.80 per share, for fiscal 2025.
  • Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (CCOI) is a Telecom Services company in the Communication Services sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, CCOI traded at $8.07, a market capitalization of $427.7 million.
  • Trailing earnings are negative, so a P/E ratio is not meaningful; the stock trades at 0.4× sales.
  • Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share, a yield of 0.99%.
  • Return on equity was −229.2% and debt-to-equity -67.54.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 4 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 0.17 (distress zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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