Staar Surgical Co
Staar Surgical Co (STAA) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Medical Instruments & Supplies, part of the Healthcare sector. It is headquartered in Lake Forest, United States and has 921 employees. The company is worth $1.13B and trades at 281.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $239.44M in fiscal 2025, down 23.7% from the year before. It reported a net loss of $80.45M. The share price is 37.3% below its 52-week high of $35.87. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Steve Cohen (Point72 Asset Management), at $69.93M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -77.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $179.55▼ -82.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $23.09 | $24.29 | $31.21 | $48.54 | $91.30 | $79.22 | $35.17 | $31.91 | $15.50 | $10.85 | $7.14 | $9.11 | $16.19 | $6.10 | $10.49 | $6.10 | $3.10 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 94.9 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Healthcare, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
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| CTYCity Therapeutics Inc | $22.40 | — | — | — | — | $1.13B |
| IAMIambic Therapeutics, Inc. | $23.81 | — | — | 0.00% | — | $1.13B |
| REPLReplimune Group, Inc. | $11.99 | — | 9.5x | 0.00% | -134.29% | $1.13B |
| IRMDIradimed Corp | $87.64 |
| 94.9x |
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| 72.6x |
| 60.7x |
| 163.0x |
| 660.2x |
| 117.2x |
| 290.1x |
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| 1619.0x |
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| 262.2x |
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| P/S | 5.4x | 4.8x | 3.8x | 4.7x | 9.8x | 18.9x | 22.6x | 10.5x | 11.4x | 7.1x | 5.4x | 3.7x | 4.7x | 8.5x | 3.5x | 6.1x | 3.9x | 2.0x |
| P/B | 9.5x | 3.3x | 3.0x | 4.0x | 7.0x | 16.7x | 18.7x | 9.9x | 10.7x | 15.0x | 11.7x | 7.4x | 9.5x | 15.8x | 7.0x | 12.9x | 9.5x | 4.8x |
| EPS | -$1.62 | -$0.41 | $0.43 | $0.80 | $0.56 | $0.12 | $0.30 | $0.11 | -$0.05 | -$0.30 | -$0.17 | -$0.22 | $0.01 | -$0.05 | $0.04 | $0.00 | -$0.19 |
| Profit margin | 0.10% | -33.60% | -6.44% | 6.62% | 16.57% | 11.94% | 3.62% | 9.35% | 4.01% | -2.36% | -14.71% | -8.47% | -11.19% | 0.55% | -2.76% | 2.15% | 0.10% | -12.14% |
| ROE | 0.24% | -23.37% | -5.09% | 5.53% | 11.80% | 10.52% | 3.00% | 8.79% | 3.75% | -4.98% | -32.00% | -16.82% | -22.62% | 1.02% | -5.55% | 4.58% | 0.24% | -29.43% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
2 methods answered, across 1 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-75.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| 49.0x |
| 11.0x |
| 1.45% |
| 23.52% |
| $1.12B |
| DRTSAlpha Tau Medical Ltd. | $12.29 | — | 25.8x | 0.00% | -141.68% | $1.14B |
| DMRADamora Therapeutics, Inc. | $18.44 | — | 2.9x | 0.00% | -99.74% | $1.14B |