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Staar Surgical

NMQ:STAA · US8523123052
Health Care Equipment & SuppliesMedium

360

39
EV / EBIT1
Price / Owner Earnings95
Owner Earnings Yield1
Dividend Yield1
Price/Sales26
EV / Gross Profit32
Price/Book36
Return on Capital29
Cash Return on Capital32
Return on Equity29
EBIT Margin26
Gross Profitability80
Accruals11
Owner Earnings Margin27
Sales growth89
Profit growth64
Reinvestment76
Price momentum94
Debt load83
Refinancing44
Debt Payback1
Liquidity21
Analyst ratings18
Opinion Changes71
Price Target Upside14
Market mood9
Value Creation10/20creating some value
  • Creates more value than its capital costs
  • Owner earnings growing
  • Owner earnings per share growing
  • Reinvests at strong returns
  • Solid earnings base

What this means

Staar Surgical clears its cost of capital, but the record is mixed across the five tests. Real value creation, just not yet consistent.

Profile

CountryUSA
IndustryHealth Care Equipment & Supplies
SizeMedium
TypePublic Company
ExchangeNASDAQGM
Founded1982
Employees472
Websitestaar.com
ISINUS8523123052
Last UpdateApr 2, 2026
Themes
OphthalmologySurgeryHealth CareManufacturingMedical Device

Description

STAAR Surgical Company (STAAR) designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the eye and accessory delivery systems used to deliver the lenses into the eye. The company operates as a manufacturer of phakic implantable lenses used…

Analysis

Middle-of-the-road

STAAR Surgical Company sits in the middle of our grid: average quality, average price, no obvious signal in either direction.

Valuation data is not available for this company.

Growth is solid; the safety picture is adequate. The company scores 10/20 on our value-creation score: creating some value.

No flags apply to this company at this time: accounts, balance sheet, and cash quality all pass. A clean bill of health is meaningful, not just the absence of a warning. This analysis describes numbers; it is not investment advice.

360° rank · history

1007550250
27
2023202420252026

All-time high

94

Jan 2025

All-time low

27

Mar 2026

Average rank

77

across all years

Detailed & Historical Ranks

Deep dive into 15 detailed ranks and 3 years of history.

Current202520242023
Price/Sales
26
41
36
13
Price/Earnings
12
38
28
20
Price/Book
36
59
45
8
Dividend Yield
1
1
1
1
Value (overall)
8
41
33
3

Cells are coloured by rank band (red weak → green strong). Sentiment & 360° history begins 2023.

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Make Sense of the Ranks

Every rank runs 1–100 against true peers. Higher is always better.

360° View
1 · Watch OutGood· 100
Value
1 · ExpensiveGood Value· 100
Quality
1 · Weak FundamentalsHigh Quality· 100
Growth
1 · Tough TimesHigh Growth· 100
Safety
1 · High LeverageWell-Financed· 100
Sentiment
1 · SkepticismPositive· 100
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