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Is Shadow IT already in your organization?

You wouldn’t allow unmanaged devices on your network, so why allow unmanaged AI into your meetings?

Shadow IT is becoming one of the biggest blind spots in cybersecurity.

Employees are adopting AI notetakers without oversight, creating ungoverned data trails that can include confidential conversations and sensitive IP.

Don't wait until it's too late.

This Shadow IT prevention guide from Fellow.ai gives Security and IT leaders a playbook to prevent shadow AI, reduce data exposure, and enforce safe AI adoption, without slowing down innovation.

It includes a checklist, policy templates, and internal comms examples you can use today.

Download the Shadow IT Prevention Guide

The Cooper Companies DCF Stock Analysis

Here’s my assumptions:

Risk Free Rate (10 Years Interest Rate Swap): 3.98%

Risk Premium (Taken from the Aswath Damodaran equity premium spreadsheet): 4.33%

Interest Rate Spread on The Risk free rate ( For the cost of debt calculation): 2%

Last 24 Months Beta: 0.85

Historical Data

Revenue growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 8.04%

Earnings growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 6.78%

Unlevered Free Cash Flow growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 7.95%

Future Assumptions

End of Year FCF growth: 5%

Growth until end of 2026: 10%

Growth until end of 2034: 5%

Perpetual growth: 3%

Net Debt: 2.469B

Outstanding Stock Options Present Value Assumption: ~$0B (Current stock price is lower than the weighted average strike price)

Restricted Stock Units Present Value Assumption: $0.096B

Stock Valuation based on these assumptions: $40

Last update 08/14/2025

All the content in this newsletter should be taken as informational content only. THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE! Do your own Due Diligence before investing or contact a professional financial advisor.

I don’t have a position in The Cooper Companies (COO) and I don’t plan to add a position in the coming days.