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Company snapshot — Coface SA

COFA.PA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Coface sells trade credit insurance, covering the risk that a company's customers fail to pay their invoices, mainly to small and mid-sized firms, larger corporates and financial institutions. It also runs debt collection, factoring and surety-bond businesses, and sells business information and credit-scoring tools such as company risk reports and recommended credit limits. It is based in Bois-Colombes, France, and operates across Western Europe, Africa and other regions.
Where it sits in the stack
Coface has no seat in our index; it sits in the Financial Services sector of our universe, within the insurance and reinsurance sleeve rather than any AI build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Coface carries no peer group in our records; the market usually places it alongside Euler Hermes, part of Allianz Trade, and Atradius as the other trade-credit insurers of comparable size.
Why Closelook tracks it
Coface holds no index seat and no Closelook score, and it has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
Whether trade volumes and payment defaults among its insured client base shift, since that is what drives claims in a credit insurer like this.

Coface SA (COFA.PA) trades on the PA exchange in France.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for COFA.PA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Reinsurance · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Reinsurance

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against COFA.PA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 7.78%, annual · buybacks 6 m EUR in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What COFA.PA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.25 EUR per share · a 7.78% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year −10.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.40 EUR per share
  • Last distribution 1.25 EUR per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-05-26
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.40 EUR (partial) · 2026: 1.25 EUR to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-05-20
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 209 m EUR 91% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 6 m EUR 0.2% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.2% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 215 m EUR · 134% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Coface SA (COFA.PA)?

Coface SA trades as COFA.PA on the PA exchange (France) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is COFA.PA in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Coface SA is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does COFA.PA trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.4% vs the 50-day and +7.8% vs the 200-day average, 2% below the 52-week high and +24% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Coface SA do?

Coface sells trade credit insurance, covering the risk that a company's customers fail to pay their invoices, mainly to small and mid-sized firms, larger corporates and financial institutions. It also runs debt collection, factoring and surety-bond businesses, and sells business information and credit-scoring tools such as company risk reports and recommended credit limits. It is based in Bois-Colombes, France, and operates across Western Europe, Africa and other regions. Coface carries no peer group in our records; the market usually places it alongside Euler Hermes, part of Allianz Trade, and Atradius as the other trade-credit insurers of comparable size.

Where does Coface SA sit in the AI build-out?

Coface has no seat in our index; it sits in the Financial Services sector of our universe, within the insurance and reinsurance sleeve rather than any AI build-out layer. Coface holds no index seat and no Closelook score, and it has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

Does Coface SA pay a dividend?

Coface SA has paid 1.25 EUR per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 7.78% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.25 EUR on 2026-05-26. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 209 m EUR in dividends and bought back 6 m EUR of its own shares, 134% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.2% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for COFA.PA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Insurance - Reinsurance, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.