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Cyngn (CYN) Piotroski F-Score : 2 (As of May. 01, 2024)


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What is Cyngn Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 2 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Cyngn has an F-score of 2. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

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

CYN' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 4   Max: 5
Current: 2

During the past 5 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Cyngn was 5. The lowest was 2. And the median was 4.


Cyngn Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cyngn'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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Cyngn Piotroski F-Score Chart

Cyngn Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
N/A N/A N/A 5.00 2.00

Cyngn Quarterly Data
Dec19 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.00 N/A 5.00 5.00 2.00

Competitive Comparison of Cyngn's Piotroski F-Score

For the Software - Application subindustry, Cyngn'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.


Cyngn's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Software Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Cyngn'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 (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was -5.629 + -6.353 + -5.472 + -5.358 = $-22.81 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -5.377 + -4.869 + -4.193 + -5.038 = $-19.48 Mil.
Revenue was 0.873 + 0.551 + 0.025 + 0.04 = $1.49 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.256 + 0.088 + -0.017 + -0.06 = $0.27 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(25.505 + 20.334 + 15.556 + 11.55 + 13.033) / 5 = $17.1956 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $25.51 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.32 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $9.47 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $2.08 Mil.
Net Income was -3.819 + -4.612 + -5.259 + -5.546 = $-19.24 Mil.

Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0.262 = $0.26 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0.075 = $0.08 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(22.655 + 20.083 + 34.548 + 29.733 + 25.505) / 5 = $26.5048 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $22.66 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $23.78 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1.39 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.

Cyngn's current Net Income (TTM) was -22.81. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

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.

Cyngn's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -19.48. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

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 (Dec22)
=-22.812/25.505
=-0.89441286

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=-19.236/22.655
=-0.84908409

Cyngn's return on assets of this year was -0.89441286. Cyngn's return on assets of last year was -0.84908409. ==> 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.

Cyngn's current Net Income (TTM) was -22.81. Cyngn's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -19.48. ==> -19.48 > -22.81 ==> 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: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=0.317/17.1956
=0.01843495

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=0/26.5048
=0

Cyngn's gearing of this year was 0.01843495. Cyngn's gearing of last year was 0. ==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.

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: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=9.47/2.081
=4.55069678

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=23.777/1.387
=17.14275415

Cyngn's current ratio of this year was 4.55069678. Cyngn's current ratio of last year was 17.14275415. ==> Last year's current ratio is higher ==> Score 0.

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.

Cyngn's number of shares in issue this year was 52.711. Cyngn's number of shares in issue last year was 43.358. ==> 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
=0.267/1.489
=0.17931498

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=0.075/0.262
=0.28625954

Cyngn's gross margin of this year was 0.17931498. Cyngn's gross margin of last year was 0.28625954. ==> 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 (Dec22)
=1.489/25.505
=0.05838071

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=0.262/22.655
=0.01156478

Cyngn's asset turnover of this year was 0.05838071. Cyngn's asset turnover of last year was 0.01156478. ==> 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
=0+0+0+1+0+0+0+0+1
=2

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

Cyngn has an F-score of 2. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Cyngn  (NAS:CYN) 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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Cyngn (CYN) Business Description

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Address
1015 O’Brien Drive, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 94025
Cyngn Inc an industrial autonomous vehicle technology company. Its flagship innovation is DriveMod, an autonomous driving solution that can be flexibly deployed on multiple vehicle types in various environments.
Executives
Karen M Macleod director C/O TRACK GROUP, INC., 200 E 5TH AVENUE STE 100, NAPERVILLE IL 60563
Redpoint Associates Iv, Llc 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii-q, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii-b, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii-a, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Ah Equity Partners Iii, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Redpoint Ventures Iv, Llc 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Redpoint Ventures Iv, L.p. 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Capital Partners Vii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Founders' Fund Vii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Founders' Fund Vii-b, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
James Mcdonnell director 6001 36TH AVE WEST, EVERETT WA 98203-1264
Donald Alvarez officer: Chief Financial Officer 1015 O'BRIEN DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Cunningham Colleen director 1015 O'BRIEN DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025