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ARM Holdings (ARM Holdings) Piotroski F-Score : 6 (As of May. 17, 2024)


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What is ARM Holdings Piotroski F-Score?

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

ARM Holdings has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

The historical rank and industry rank for ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

ARM' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 6   Med: 6   Max: 6
Current: 6

During the past 4 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of ARM Holdings was 6. The lowest was 6. And the median was 6.


ARM Holdings Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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ARM Holdings Piotroski F-Score Chart

ARM Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Piotroski F-Score
N/A N/A N/A 6.00

ARM Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only N/A N/A N/A N/A 6.00

Competitive Comparison of ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score

For the Semiconductors subindustry, ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where ARM Holdings's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

This Year (Mar24) TTM:Last Year (Mar23) TTM:
Net Income was 105 + -110 + 87 + 224 = $306 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -114 + 227 + 310 + 667 = $1,090 Mil.
Revenue was 675 + 806 + 824 + 928 = $3,233 Mil.
Gross Profit was 644 + 760 + 788 + 887 = $3,079 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar23)
to the end of this year (Mar24) was
(6866 + 6700 + 6810 + 7115 + 7927) / 5 = $7083.6 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar23) was $6,866 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $194 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $4,197 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1,505 Mil.
Net Income was 225 + 114 + 182 + 3 = $524 Mil.

Revenue was 692 + 630 + 724 + 633 = $2,679 Mil.
Gross Profit was 667 + 605 + 695 + 606 = $2,573 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar22)
to the end of last year (Mar23) was
(6510 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 6866) / 5 = $6688 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar22) was $6,510 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $193 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $3,537 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1,363 Mil.

*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

ARM Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was 306. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)

Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

ARM Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,090. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 3. Change in Return on Assets

Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar23)
=306/6866
=0.04456743

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar22)
=524/6510
=0.08049155

ARM Holdings's return on assets of this year was 0.04456743. ARM Holdings's return on assets of last year was 0.08049155. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)

Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)

Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.

ARM Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was 306. ARM Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,090. ==> 1,090 > 306 ==> CFROA > ROA ==> Score 1.

Funding

Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage

Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.

Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.

Gearing (This Year: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=194/7083.6
=0.0273872

Gearing (Last Year: Mar23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar22 to Mar23
=193/6688
=0.02885766

ARM Holdings's gearing of this year was 0.0273872. ARM Holdings's gearing of last year was 0.02885766. ==> This year is lower or equal to last year. ==> Score 1.

Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)

Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.

Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Current Ratio (This Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=4197/1505
=2.78870432

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=3537/1363
=2.59501101

ARM Holdings's current ratio of this year was 2.78870432. ARM Holdings's current ratio of last year was 2.59501101. ==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue

Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.

Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.

ARM Holdings's number of shares in issue this year was 1057.534. ARM Holdings's number of shares in issue last year was 1026.055. ==> There is larger number of shares in issue this year. ==> Score 0.

Efficiency

Question 8. Change in Gross Margin

Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.

Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=3079/3233
=0.95236622

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=2573/2679
=0.960433

ARM Holdings's gross margin of this year was 0.95236622. ARM Holdings's gross margin of last year was 0.960433. ==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 9. Change in asset turnover

Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.

Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Mar23)
=3233/6866
=0.47087096

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar22)
=2679/6510
=0.41152074

ARM Holdings's asset turnover of this year was 0.47087096. ARM Holdings's asset turnover of last year was 0.41152074. ==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=1+1+0+1+1+1+0+0+1
=6

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

ARM Holdings has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

ARM Holdings  (NAS:ARM) Piotroski F-Score Explanation

The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers" (pdf).

He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.

What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.

Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.

Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).

Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.


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ARM Holdings (ARM Holdings) Business Description

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Arm Holdings is the IP owner and developer of the ARM architecture (ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine), which is used in 99% of the world's smartphone CPU cores, and it also has high market share in other battery-powered devices like wearables, tablets, or sensors. Arm licenses its architecture for a fee, offering different types of licenses depending on the flexibility the customer needs. Customers like Apple or Qualcomm buy architectural licenses, which allows them to modify the architecture and add or delete instructions to tailor the chips to their specific needs. Other clients directly buy off-the-shelf designs from Arm. Both off-the-shelf and architectural customers pay a royalty fee per chip shipped.