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CNS Stock Forecast: Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) Price Predictions for 2026-2027

Last close, 29 Oct 2026
$73
+4.08% on the day

The 3 Wall Street analysts covering Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) hold a median 12-month price target of $80 — +9.7% from the last close. Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model, run across ~4,600 US stocks, ranks it 66 of 100 as at 29 Oct 2026 — in the upper half.

Market cap
$3.6B
Ticker Nerd rank
66/ 100
Median analyst target
$80
Analysts covering
3
Revenue$150.9M+7.9% y/y
Operating income$55.4M
Net income$41.2M
Quarterly, 7 quarters to 31 Mar 2026 · latest quarter's figure shown
Total return, dividends reinvested
1W
+1.2%
1M
−0.1%
YTD
+19.4%
1Y
+8.9%
From 52W high
−14.9%
From 52W low
+26.5%
$58
$86
52-week range, adjusted closes · the dot is the last close
Ticker Nerd rank

CNS stock analysis: one number for the whole business

Consensus tells you what everyone already believes. The model scores Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) on its factor families — the same systematic rank behind the Ticker Nerd portfolio.

Where the model ranks itAs at 29 Oct 2026
66/ 100

Percentile across ~4,600 US stocks on Ticker Nerd’s systematic factor model. Higher is better. How the model is built and tested

Quality
97
Volatility
81
Value
80
Issuance
71
Momentum
71
Growth
69
Revisions
33
Size
27
Accruals
18

Quality (97): The business earns solid, repeatable profits on what it owns.

Accruals (18): A large share of reported profit has not shown up as cash, or the balance sheet is expanding quickly — both tend to unwind.

Built and run by Aslam Ghouse, an ex-Goldman Sachs systematic trader with 15+ years in markets.

Wall Street

CNS stock forecast 2026-2027: analyst price targets & predictions

The bullish and bearish analyst opinions on CNS, reported as data — targets and ratings, the market's view beside the model's.

Share price and the analyst range, 12 monthsAdjusted close, US dollars
$50$60$70$80$90Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26CNSHigh $82Median $80Low $53

Price targets and ratings are third-party analyst estimates, reported here as data. They are not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

Data provided by Twelve Data

What Wall Street says3 analysts
1 Buy1 Hold1 Sell
Low $53Median $80High $82

The green dot is the last close — the median target sits +9.7% from it.

Recent analyst actionsNewest first

Of the 20 most recent actions, 3 moved their price target up and 0 moved it down.

DateFirmActionRatingTarget
9 Sept 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform$88 → $89
10 Aug 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform$84 → $88
10 Aug 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
10 July 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform$82 → $84
10 July 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
10 Apr 2026Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
20 Oct 2025Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
9 Oct 2025Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
2 Oct 2025B of A SecuritiesMaintainsUnderperform—
5 Sept 2025Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
21 July 2025B of A SecuritiesMaintainsUnderperform—
30 June 2025B of A SecuritiesInitiatesUnderperform—
11 Apr 2025Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
7 Nov 2024Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
17 Oct 2024UBSUpgradeNeutral—
4 Oct 2024Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
5 Sept 2024Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—
10 July 2024UBSMaintainsSell—
12 Apr 2024UBSMaintainsSell—
8 Mar 2024Evercore ISI GroupMaintainsOutperform—

Price targets and ratings are third-party analyst estimates, reported here as data. They are not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

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Performance

CNS vs the S&P 500

Both lines are total return — dividends reinvested — so the comparison is honest on both sides.

Over the twelve months to 29 Oct 2026, Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) returned +8.9% against +13.1% for the S&P 500, dividends included.

CNS vs S&P 500, last 12 monthsTotal return, rebased to 100
8090100110120130Jan 26Apr 26Jul 26Oct 26CNSS&P 500

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Data provided by Twelve Data

Estimates

CNS analyst estimate revisions

Not the forecast itself — the direction analysts are revising it. Revision direction is one of the model's factor families.

Which way the estimates are movingNext fiscal year
EPS revision, 90 days
0.0%
Analysts raising
0
Analysts cutting
1
Fundamentals

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) (CNS) financial data

A margin means little on its own. Each bar marks where the figure sits across the whole US universe we score.

Valuation
Trailing P/E
21.6×

Cheaper than 35% of US stocks

Price / sales
6.0×

Cheaper than 21% of US stocks

Price / book
6.1×

Cheaper than 16% of US stocks

EV / EBITDA
17.3×

Cheaper than 18% of US stocks

Growth & margins
Revenue growth (YoY)
11.1%

Higher than 56% of US stocks

Earnings growth (YoY)
1.3%

Higher than 38% of US stocks

Gross margin
51.0%

Higher than 63% of US stocks

Operating margin
32.4%

Higher than 88% of US stocks

Net margin
28.2%

Higher than 88% of US stocks

Returns & dividend
Return on equity
24.2%

Higher than 84% of US stocks

Return on assets
17.5%

Higher than 98% of US stocks

Dividend yield
3.8%

Higher than 90% of US dividend payers

Bars mark the percentile across the ~4,600 US stocks Ticker Nerd covers, among those reporting the figure.

Key statistics

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) (CNS) statistics: revenue, profit & scale

The headline figures, each with its date. Every row carries its own link — cite it straight from here.

  • Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) has a market value of $3.6B and an enterprise value of $3.6B.

  • Revenue in the twelve months to 31 Mar 2026: $589.2M. The latest quarter grew 11.1% year on year.

  • Net income over the same four quarters: $155.3M, a 26.4% net margin.

  • Diluted earnings per share, trailing twelve months: $3.03.

  • Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) spent $19.4M on share buybacks in the twelve months to 31 Mar 2026.

  • Shares outstanding: 51.4M.

  • Trailing P/E: 21.6×; forward P/E: 18.7× — the forward figure prices analyst consensus estimates, not reported earnings.

  • Forward dividend yield: 3.83%, paying out 79% of earnings.

  • Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) employs 424 people — $1.4M of revenue per employee.

Statement figures: company filings via Twelve Data, four quarters to 31 Mar 2026 · market figures as at 29 Oct 2026

Data provided by Twelve Data

Peers

CNS vs competitors

The nearest names by industry and size, scored by the same model — like for like.

Its peer group, ranked by the same modelAsset Management
CompanyMarket capTKN rank
CNSCohen & Steers, Inc. (New York)$3.6B66
WTWisdomTree, Inc.$3.3B69
AAMIAcadian Asset Management, Inc.$3.3B97
FHIFederated Hermes, Inc.$4.4B93
OTFBlue Owl Technology Finance Corp$4.5B54
ASSTStrive, Inc. (United States)$3.1B30
APAMArtisan Partners Asset Management, Inc.$2.9B93

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The rank is the raw material. Whether the rules would actually own Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) — and when they’d sell — is the membership. See the Ticker Nerd 20 →

News

Latest CNS news & analysis

Cohen & Steers, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend

PRNewsWire · 29 Oct 2026neutral

Cohen & Steers declared a fourth-quarter 2026 cash dividend of $0.67 per common share, payable November 19 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 9, 2026.

Why it matters — CNS shareholders and watchers may note the dividend amount and the payment and record dates.

Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (RFI) Notification of Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a)

PRNewsWire · 27 Oct 2026neutral

Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. issued a notice about the sources of its distribution payable October 30, 2026, and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date. The release notes the Fund has operated under a managed distribution policy since December 2011.

Why it matters — The notice concerns a Cohen & Steers-managed fund and provides shareholders information about its distribution sources.

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund, Inc. (FOF) Notification of Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a)

PRNewsWire · 27 Oct 2026neutral

Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund announced that it is providing shareholders information about the sources of its October 30, 2026 distribution and cumulative fiscal year-to-date distributions. The fund said it adopted a managed distribution policy in December 2021 under SEC exemptive relief.

Why it matters — The notice concerns a Cohen & Steers fund and provides distribution information relevant to monitoring the company’s fund operations.

Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (RNP) Notification of Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a)

PRNewsWire · 27 Oct 2026neutral

Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred and Income Fund (RNP) issued a notice describing the sources of its October 30, 2026 distribution and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date. The fund said it has operated a managed distribution policy since December 2017 under SEC exemptive relief.

Why it matters — The notice provides information about distributions from a Cohen & Steers-managed fund that may be relevant to CNS watchers.

Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund, Inc. (RQI) Notification of Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a)

PRNewsWire · 27 Oct 2026neutral

Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund announced information on the sources of its October 30, 2026 distribution and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date. The fund said it has operated a managed distribution policy since December 2012.

Why it matters — The announcement concerns a Cohen & Steers fund and provides distribution information relevant to monitoring the company’s fund activities.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about CNS stock

What is the CNS stock price forecast for 2026-2027?

The 3 Wall Street analysts covering Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) have a median 12-month price target of $80, with estimates ranging from $53 to $82. These are third-party analyst estimates, not Ticker Nerd forecasts, and they are frequently wrong.

Is CNS stock a buy right now?

Of the 3 analysts covering Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York), 1 rate it a Buy, 1 a Hold and 1 a Sell. Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model ranks Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) 66 out of 100 across roughly 4,600 US stocks as at 29 Oct 2026. None of this is personal advice — it does not consider your circumstances.

How does Ticker Nerd's model rank CNS?

As at 29 Oct 2026, Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) ranks 66 out of 100 on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model — a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks, built from its factor families. Its strongest factor family is Quality (97 of 100).

Will CNS stock go up?

No one can know that. What the data says: the median 12-month target from 3 analysts implies +9.7% from the last close, and Ticker Nerd's factor model ranks Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) 66 out of 100 as at 29 Oct 2026. Analyst targets are third-party estimates and frequently wrong; none of this is personal advice.

What is the CNS stock forecast for 2030?

No analyst covering Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) publishes a 2030 price target — Wall Street targets run 12 to 18 months out. Sites quoting a 2030 price for CNS are extrapolating price history, which says nothing about the business. The furthest attributed numbers are the current analyst targets: $53 to $82 over the next 12 months.

How has CNS stock performed over the past year?

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) returned +8.9% over the 12 months to 29 Oct 2026, with dividends reinvested. Past performance does not indicate future returns.

What does Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York) do?

Cohen & Steers Inc. is a global investment management company focused on real assets and alternative income solutions.

What is the latest news on CNS?

The most recent item we track (PRNewsWire, 29 Oct 2026): "Cohen & Steers, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend". Cohen & Steers declared a fourth-quarter 2026 cash dividend of $0.67 per common share, payable November 19 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 9, 2026.

Company

About Cohen & Steers, Inc. (New York).

Cohen & Steers Inc. is a global investment management company focused on real assets and alternative income solutions. Cohen & Steers Inc. specializes in listed and private real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, and multi-strategy portfolios. The firm serves institutional and individual clients through a range of investment vehicles, including separate accounts, open-end funds, and closed-end funds. Its investment platform is centered on income-oriented and real asset strategies designed for use across public and private markets. Cohen & Steers Inc. plays a specialized role in the asset management industry by providing diversified exposure to asset classes that are often used for income generation, portfolio diversification, and inflation-sensitive investing.

CEO Mr. Joseph M. Harvey · 424 employees · United States · https://www.cohenandsteers.com