CVSA

Covista Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Consumer Defensive DELAYED
Last price
127.37
▲ 1.98 (1.58%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
125.40
Prev close
125.39
Day high
127.64
Day low
125.22
Volume
219.62K
Market cap
$4.31B
P/E (TTM)
17.01
52W range
86.97 – 156.26

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.01%
Prior close 125.39
VWAP
126.90
+0.37% from price
Relative volume
1.05×
Normal
Session range
1.92%
125.21 – 127.62
Position in range
90%
Near session high
ATR (14D)
3.39
2.66% of price
Prior day high
126.79
PDH
Prior day low
124.80
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
374.99K
Avg 357.25K

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+6.63% +4.7%
1M
-0.56% -1.7%
3M
-2.66% -7.2%
6M
+10.81% -7.4%
YTD
+23.10% +8.8%
1Y
-14.22% -30.6%
3Y
+197.25% +115.0%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on CVSA open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+107.78K
Net buying
Buy transactions
7
178.31K shares
Sell transactions
12
70.53K shares
Net transactions
+19
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.4 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
936.07K
Total on file
Bought 178.31KSold 70.53K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Aug 31, 26
MALAFRONTE MICHAEL W
Director
STOCK 2.50K $0 Direct
Aug 27, 26
GANGADHARAN MANJUNATH
Officer
SELL 1.80K $247.20K Direct
Aug 21, 26
BEARD STEPHEN W.
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 129.06K $17.08M Direct
Aug 21, 26
BECK DOUGLAS G
General Counsel
STOCK 10.30K $1.36M Direct
Aug 21, 26
PHELAN, ROBERT JOHN
Chief Financial Officer
STOCK 17.14K $2.27M Direct
Aug 21, 26
GANGADHARAN MANJUNATH
Officer
STOCK 2.55K $337.49K Direct
Aug 21, 26
BETZ MICHAEL
Officer
STOCK 12.44K $1.65M Direct
Aug 11, 26
BEARD STEPHEN W.
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 3.54K $462.07K Direct
Aug 7, 26
BECK DOUGLAS G
General Counsel
SELL 4.53K $614.68K Direct
Aug 7, 26
PHELAN, ROBERT JOHN
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 2.19K $295.44K Direct
Jul 13, 26
BEARD STEPHEN W.
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 5.29K $702.40K Direct
Jul 8, 26
BECK DOUGLAS G
General Counsel
SELL 5.09K $688.91K Direct
Jul 8, 26
PHELAN, ROBERT JOHN
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 5.31K $719.50K Direct
Jun 11, 26
BEARD STEPHEN W.
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 5.29K $690.20K Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
BEARD STEPHEN W.
Chief Executive Officer 477.46K Stock Award(Grant)
BECK DOUGLAS G
General Counsel 33.39K Stock Award(Grant)
BETZ MICHAEL
Officer 39.17K Stock Award(Grant)
COX KAREN SUE
Officer 31.60K Sale
HERRERA MAURICE
Officer 20.58K Stock Award(Grant)
MALAFRONTE MICHAEL W
Director 136.10K Stock Gift
PHELAN KENNETH J.
Director 19.84K Stock Award(Grant)
PHELAN, ROBERT JOHN
Chief Financial Officer 56.57K Stock Award(Grant)
TRENT EVAN
Officer 24.13K Stock Award(Grant)
WARDELL LISA W.
Director 44.25K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$4.31B
Enterprise value$4.83B
Revenue (TTM)$1.95B
Gross profit$1.12B
EBITDA$444.78M
Net income$267.38M
EPS (TTM)$7.49
Free cash flow$323.94M
Total cash$406.32M
Total debt$905.49M
Book value / share$42.49
Shares outstanding33.86M
Float33.14M
Short % of float8.23%
Dividend yield0.00%
Beta (5Y)0.65

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E17.01
Forward P/E12.73
PEG ratio0.92
Price / sales—
Price / book3.00
EV / revenue2.47
EV / EBITDA10.87
Gross margin57.34%
Operating margin19.26%
Profit margin12.87%
Return on equity18.57%
Return on assets8.45%
Debt / equity62.61
Current ratio1.09
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2026202520242023YoY
Total revenue $1.95B$1.79B$1.58B$1.45B +9.3%
Operating revenue $1.95B$1.78B$1.57B$1.44B +9.4%
Cost of revenue $833.66M$771.43M$698.55M$648.49M +8.1%
Gross profit $1.12B$1.02B$886.10M$802.34M +10.2%
Selling, general & admin $730.72M$672.00M$632.97M$586.01M +8.7%
Total operating expense $730.72M$672.00M$632.97M$586.01M +8.7%
Operating income $389.70M$344.86M$253.14M$216.33M +13.0%
Net interest income -$39.98M-$44.10M-$54.48M-$52.50M +9.4%
Pre-tax income $345.12M$298.51M$163.94M$112.03M +15.6%
Tax provision $77.74M$65.84M$26.22M$10.28M +18.1%
Net income $251.57M$237.06M$136.78M$93.36M +6.1%
Net income to common $251.57M$237.06M$136.78M$93.36M +6.1%
Basic EPS 7.186.393.472.08 +12.4%
Diluted EPS 7.046.183.392.05 +13.9%
EBIT $384.28M$342.85M$218.20M$170.28M +12.1%
EBITDA $467.30M$427.31M$326.16M$321.37M +9.4%
Basic shares 35.05M37.09M39.41M44.78M -5.5%
Diluted shares 35.72M38.33M40.31M45.60M -6.8%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
2.84
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
—
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
90.00
-29.3% from spot
ATM implied vol
0.0%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
0.0%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
57
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
162
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
110.00
0 contracts
Heaviest put OI
90.00
0 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 1.892.09 +10.4%
Mar 2026 1.721.98 +15.0%
Dec 2025 2.192.43 +11.1%
Sep 2025 1.581.75 +10.9%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 1.83 4 $490.66M +6.1%
Next quarter 2.40 4 $519.81M +3.3%
Current year 9.05 4 $2.07B +6.1%
Next year 10.01 4 $2.22B +7.2%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$158.75
High target$175.00
Low target$140.00
Implied upside24.64%
Analyst count4
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy1 / 2
Hold1
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders2.75%
Held by institutions103.58%
Institutions holding519
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
122.88
+3.65% from price
SMA 20
124.22
+2.54% from price
SMA 50
128.27
-0.70% from price
SMA 100
126.00
+1.08% from price
SMA 200
117.76
+8.16% from price
EMA 12
124.28
+2.48% from price
EMA 26
125.38
+1.59% from price
EMA 50
126.03
+1.06% from price
RSI (14)
53.9
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-1.10
Hist 0.53
ATR (14)
3.39
2.66% of price
Realised vol 30D
30.2%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
129.36
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
119.07
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
128.27 vs 117.76
Trend bias
Above 200
+8.16%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 127.37
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.07
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.02
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
30.2%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-42.0%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-49.2%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
3.39
2.66% of price
Beta (reported)
0.65
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
1.94M
Prior 1.63M
Change vs prior
+18.9%
Shorts adding
% of float
8.23%
Normal
% of shares out
5.69%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
5.8
Crowded exit
Float
33.14M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

11 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 5, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 3, 26 Truist Securities DOWNGRADE Buy Hold
Jun 8, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
May 11, 26 Truist Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Apr 17, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Mar 24, 26 Truist Securities INITIATED — Buy
Mar 2, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jan 29, 26 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Oct 31, 25 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Oct 15, 25 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 23, 25 Barrington Research MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate—
Forward yield0.00%
5-year avg yield0.94%
Payout ratio0.00%
Ex-dividend dateNov 30, 2016
Next pay date—
Last split2:1
Split dateJun 22, 1998

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