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Advantech Co (TPE:2395) Financial Strength : 9 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Advantech Co Financial Strength?

Advantech Co has the Financial Strength Rank of 9. It shows strong financial strength and is unlikely to fall into distressed situations.

Good Sign:

Advantech Co Ltd shows strong financial strength.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Advantech Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 84.66. Advantech Co's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.04. As of today, Advantech Co's Altman Z-Score is 8.53.


Competitive Comparison of Advantech Co's Financial Strength

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Advantech Co's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Advantech Co's Financial Strength Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Advantech Co's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

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Advantech Co Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Advantech Co's Interest Expense for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$-23 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$1,959 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$1,647 Mil.

Advantech Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*1958.697/-23.135
=84.66

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Advantech Co Ltd has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Advantech Co's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Mar. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(573.823 + 1646.824) / 55517.08
=0.04

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Advantech Co has a Z-score of 8.53, indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Z-Score is strong.

Good Sign:

Altman Z-score of 8.53 is strong.

* 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.


Advantech Co  (TPE:2395) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Advantech Co has the Financial Strength Rank of 9. It shows strong financial strength and is unlikely to fall into distressed situations.


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Advantech Co (TPE:2395) Business Description

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Address
No. 1, Alley 20, Lane 26, Rueiguang Road, Neihu District, Taipei, TWN, 114519
Founded in 1981, Advantech is the world's largest industrial PC, or IPC, supplier, offering single-board computers, fanless IPCs, digital posts and more. The company reports three segments: embedded PCs, industry PC and automation solutions, and service and others. They contributed 50%, 39% and 11% revenue in 2022, respectively. Leveraging its presence in 27 countries, Advantech is expanding into Internet of Things verticals like smart retail, medical, transportation, industrial automation and energy by investing in Internet of Things solution partners and its proprietary WISE-PaaS platform. The headquarters is in Taipei, Taiwan. The company maintains most manufacturing facilities in Taiwan and Kunshan, China; and has 14 service centers globally.

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