Primary Recommendations

Coats - Transformational Ortholite acquisition drives higher margin footwear to 40% sales

September 2025

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One of the most savvy ways to make money in the stock market is spotting companies whose narrative is tilting towards a comeback - but whose share price hasn’t yet caught up. Coats, the 270-year-old stalwart of industrial thread manufacturing, is a case in point. For years, it was easy to dismiss Coats as a relic of the past - low margins, dated machinery, silk threads and an ever-looming pension drag. But beneath that fusty image lies something very different. Today, Coats is a global leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear - and an innovator in performance materials. Think of the invisible seams that hold your trainers together, or the specialized threads that stitch high-performance act ...

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Coats Group - Operating margin hits record 18% (May 2025)

Coats Group - Sales accelerate to +11% (January 2025)

Coats - Free cash flow to rocket after pension buy-in (November 2024)

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Coats - Supplier of threads enjoying strong margin growth (May 2024)

Coats Group (January 2024)

Coats Group (July 2023)

Coats - Acquisitions add fast growing sports, athleisure and high performance footwear (April 2023)

Coats (September 2022)

Coats - Cost cuts to deliver another US$50m profit by FY’24 (July 2022)

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Coats Group (October 2021)

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Coats (October 2019)

Coats Group (May 2019)

Coats Group (November 2018)

Coats Group (April 2018)

Coats (January 2018)

Coats - Call with CFO reveals plenty of lower hanging fruit still to be plucked (December 2017)

Coats Group - Three directors buy shares in sewing thread business (February 2017)

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