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Luna Innovations (Luna Innovations) Mohanram G-Score : 4 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Luna Innovations Mohanram G-Score?

Mohanram G-Score is a financial indicator developed by professor Partha Mohanram to help investors find the best investment opportunities in the growth stocks. Companies have higher G-score tends to generate higher return. According to his study, the best growth stocks that have a G-Score greater than 6 tend to beat the market, while those with a G-Score lower than 1 tend to have negative absolute returns.

Thus, the zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Luna Innovations has an G-score of 4.

The historical rank and industry rank for Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score or its related term are showing as below:

LUNA' s Mohanram G-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1   Med: 3   Max: 4
Current: 4

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski G-score of Luna Innovations was 4. The lowest was 1. And the median was 3.


Luna Innovations Mohanram G-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-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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Luna Innovations Mohanram G-Score Chart

Luna Innovations Annual Data
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Mohanram G-Score
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Competitive Comparison of Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Mohanram G-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.


Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Luna Innovations's Mohanram G-Score falls into.



Luna Innovations Mohanram G-Score Calculation

The calculation of the Mohanram G-score consists of eight criteria. Assign one point for each criterion met, then add up all the points to get the G-Score.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

ROA % is calculated as Net Income divided by its average Total Assets over a certain period of time. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate earnings.

Score 1 if ROA > ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 2. Cash ROA

Cash ROA equals to Cash Flow from Operations divided by average Total Assets. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate cash.

Score 1 if Cash ROA > Cash ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 3. CFO and Net Income

Score 1 if CFO > Net Income, 0 otherwise.

Earnings Predictability

Question 4. Earnings Variability

Earnings Variability is measured as the variance of a firm's ROA in the past five years.

Score 1 if Earnings Variability < Earnings Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 5. Sales Growth Variability

Sales Growth Variability is measured as the 5-year variance in sales growth.

Score 1 if Sales Growth Variability < Sales Growth Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Accounting Conservatism

Question 6. Research & Development Intensity

Research & Development Intensity is calcualted by Research & Development divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if Research & Development Intensity > Research & Development Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 7. CAPEX Intensity

CAPEX Intensity is calcualted by Capital Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if CAPEX Intensity > CAPEX Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 8. Advertising Expenditure Intensity

Advertising Expenditure Intensity is calcualted by Advertising Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets. Note that Advertising Expenditure is not reported as a seperate line item for many companies, thus Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is used in this calculation.

Score 1 if Advertising Expenditure Intensity > Advertising Expenditure Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

* 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.

* Note that all the Industry Median used for comparison in his original research, are substituted with Sector Median due to the limitation of data within certain countries.

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Luna Innovations has an G-score of 4.

Luna Innovations  (NAS:LUNA) Mohanram G-Score Explanation

Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing at Rotman and the Acting Vice-Dean of Research Strategy and Resources.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Separating Winners from Losers Among Low Book-to-Market Stocks Using Financial Statement Analysis".

This paper tests whether a strategy based on financial statement analysis of low book-to-market (growth) stocks is successful in differentiating between winners and losers in terms of future stock performance. Based on the research, a strategy based on buying high G-score (6, 7 or 8) firms and shorting low G-score (0 or 1) firms consistently earns significant excess returns. Further, the results do not support a risk based explanation for the book-to-market effect as the strategy returns positive returns in all years, and firms that ex-ante appear less risky have better future returns.

To conclude, one can use a modified fundamental analysis strategy (G-score) to identify mispricing and earn substantial abnormal returns.


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Luna Innovations (Luna Innovations) Business Description

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Address
301 1st Street South West, Suite 200, Roanoke, VA, USA, 24011
Luna Innovations Inc is engaged in optical technology, providing high-performance fiber optic test, measurement, and control products for the telecommunications, and photonics industries, and distributed fiber optic sensing solutions that measure and monitor materials and structures for applications in aerospace, automotive, oil, and gas, security, and infrastructure. Its Lightwave segment develops, manufactures, and markets optical measurements technologies like Sensing including short, medium, and long-range distributed fiber optic sensing solutions and Terahertz measurement products, and Communications test and photonic control including test equipment for communications devices and networks and specialty laser and photonic components. It derives a majority of its revenue from the U.S.
Executives
George Gomez-quintero officer: Chief Financial Officer LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 301 FIRST STREET SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Pamela L Coe director C/O EXPEDIA, INC., 333 108TH AVENUE NE, BELLEVUE WA 98004
Brian Soller officer: Chief Operating Officer 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Gene Nestro officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O LUNA INNOVATIONS, INC., 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Clinic Carilion 10 percent owner EDWARD MURPHY, M.D., 213 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 807, ROANOKE VA 24011
Mary Beth Vitale director 821 17TH STREET, DENVER CO 80202
Dale E Messick officer: Chief Financial Officer LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 2851 COMMERCE STREET, BLACKSBURG VA 24060
Scott A Graeff officer: CFO, Executive VP Corp. Dev. LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 2851 COMMERCE STREET, BLACKSBURG VA 24060
Barry Phelps director 26750 AGOURA RD, CALABASAS CA 91302
Michael W. Wise director C/O LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 1 RIVERSIDE CIRCLE, SUITE 400, ROANOKE VA 24016
Richard Roedel director 164 WEST RD, NEW CANAAN CT 06840
Donald Pastor director 2925 BOARDWALK, ANN ARBOR MI 48104
Gary Spiegel director
Coringrato Edward J Jr. director 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Wilkin Neil D Jr director

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