The Cooper Companies, Inc. (COO)
Contact lens and surgical device maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025, filed December 5, 2025. Ranked 79 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
36%
Employees, annual report
15,000
Leading staffing pattern
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202836%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 57%
- Becomes checking a model's work 35%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states a workforce of more than 15,000, 52% in the Americas, making contact lenses and surgical and fertility products, so one pattern carries the workforce.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 35% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,000 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; 52% of employees are in the Americas, 42% in EMEA and 6% in Asia Pacific.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we had a workforce of more than 15,000. Our employees are located around the world, with 52% in Americas, 42% in EMEA and 6% in Asia Pacific.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing | 100% | CooperVision (67% of revenue) makes contact lenses and CooperSurgical (33%) makes women's health and fertility devices and media, both medical equipment and supplies, and the filing counts no employees by segment, so one pattern carries the whole workforce by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: More than 15,000, stated as a rounded figure; 52% Americas, 42% EMEA, 6% Asia Pacific; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT, 115,000 employees)18% now, 35% by 2028
- Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX, 72,000 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX, 59,000 employees)19% now, 42% by 2028
- Stryker Corporation (SYK, 56,000 employees)19% now, 39% by 2028
- Baxter International Inc. (BAX, 37,500 employees)19% now, 37% by 2028
- Align Technology, Inc. (ALGN, 20,290 employees)19% now, 36% by 2028
- Solventum Corporation (SOLV, 20,000 employees)20% now, 43% by 2028
- STERIS plc (STE, 17,937 employees)22% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 15,000 | 2025-12-05 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 16,000 | 2024-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 15,000 | 2023-12-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 14,000 | 2022-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 12,000 | 2021-12-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 12,000 | 2020-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 12,000 | 2019-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 12,000 | 2018-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 11,800 | 2017-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 10,600 | 2016-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 10,200 | 2015-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 9,460 | 2014-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 8,000 | 2013-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 7,800 | 2012-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 7,400 | 2011-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 6,800 | 2010-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 6,600 | 2009-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 7,400 | 2008-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-31 | 7,600 | 2007-12-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-31 | 7,500 | 2006-12-26 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-31 | 7,034 | 2006-01-17 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-31 | 4,100 | 2005-01-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-10-31 | 3,700 | 2004-01-28 | 10-K |
| 2002-10-31 | 3,500 | 2003-01-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-10-31 | 2,400 | 2002-01-25 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-10-31 | 2,100 | 2001-01-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-10-31 | 1,750 | 2000-01-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-10-31 | 1,900 | 1999-01-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-10-31 | 1,400 | 1998-01-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-10-31 | 1,100 | 1997-01-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-10-31 | 1,000 | 1996-01-16 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-10-31 | 970 | 1995-01-26 | 10-K |
| 1993-10-31 | 970 | 1994-01-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is stated as more than 15,000.
- No count by segment: one pattern by description (c); the fertility services and laboratories inside CooperSurgical are not counted apart.
- The U.S. share is not stated; the Americas are 52%.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-25-055615, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 36% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does The Cooper Companies, Inc. employ?
- 15,000 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 16% people work and 46% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The Cooper Companies, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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