Why Coty Inc. (COTY) Nosedived on Wednesday

We recently published an article titled Why These 10 Firms Nosedived Today. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) stands against the other stocks.

The stock market bounced back from the previous day’s losses, with all major indices finishing higher as investors cheered the central bank's decision to keep interest rates unchanged.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve kept rates steady at a range of 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, saying that it was not in a hurry to cut rates and could still “wait and see” the impacts of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

The Dow Jones rallied by 0.70 percent, the S&P 500 increased by 0.43 percent, and the Nasdaq grew by 0.27 percent.

Beyond the major indices, bucked a broader market optimism as investors sold off on a series of disappointing news.

To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with a $2-billion market capitalization and $5-million trading volume.

Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY)

Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) dropped its share prices by 11.61 percent on Wednesday to end at $4.57 apiece following disappointing earnings coupled with a weak outlook for the rest of the year.

In its latest earnings release, Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) said it swung to an attributable net loss of $405.7 million for the third quarter ending March 2025 from a net income of $3.8 million year-on-year. This pulled the company to a nine-month net loss of $299.1 million versus a $186.3 million net income in the same period a year earlier.

Net revenues for the quarter were also lower by 6 percent to $1.299 billion from $1.385 billion, while net revenues for the nine-month period dipped by 2 percent to $4.64 billion from $4.75 billion.

Looking ahead, Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) said it expects a high single digit decline in sales for the fourth quarter of the current fiscal year amid the continuing current category trends coupled with its ongoing interventions “to clean up the baseline of the business to prepare for a healthier [full-year] 2026.”

Overall COTY ranks 4th on our list of Wednesday's worst performers. While we acknowledge the potential of COTY as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. There is an AI stock that went up since the beginning of 2025, while popular AI stocks lost around 25%. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than COTY but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.