Talabat Holding (DFM:TALABAT) Piotroski F-Score: 4 (As of Aug. 23, 2026) — 33% Below Median

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What is Talabat Holding Piotroski F-Score?

Talabat Holding DFM:TALABAT +0.83% 30 Piotroski F-Score is 4 as of Aug. 23, 2026, which is 33% below its 10-year median of 6.00. GuruFocus rates DFM:TALABAT with a GF Score™ of 30/100. The stock has 4 warning signs investors should review. Among 1,100 Retail - Cyclical companies, Talabat Holding ranks worse than 72.73% on this metric.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Talabat Holding has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

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

DFM:TALABAT' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 6   Max: 7
Current: 4

During the past 4 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Talabat Holding was 7. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.

Talabat Holding  (DFM:TALABAT) 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.


Talabat Holding Piotroski F-Score Related Terms


Talabat Holding Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Talabat Holding'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.

Talabat Holding Piotroski F-Score Chart

Talabat Holding Annual Data
Trend Dec22 Dec23 Dec24 Dec25
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Talabat Holding Quarterly Data
Dec22 Dec23 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25 Jun25 Sep25 Dec25 Mar26 Jun26
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only N/A N/A N/A 7.00 4.00

DFM:TALABAT vs AMZN, BABA, PDD: Piotroski F-Score Comparison

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Talabat Holding'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.


Talabat Holding Piotroski F-Score vs Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Talabat Holding's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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


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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 (Jun26) TTM:Last Year (Jun25) TTM:
Net Income was 443.874 + 0 + 318.138 + 365.811 = د.إ1,128 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 0 + 0 + 453.455 + 708.47 = د.إ1,162 Mil.
Revenue was 3687.749 + 0 + 3847.859 + 4190.782 = د.إ11,726 Mil.
Gross Profit was 1072.533 + 0 + 969.923 + 1050.204 = د.إ3,093 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Jun25)
to the end of this year (Jun26) was
(5288.689 + 5841.261 + 5950.918 + 6368.86 + 6360.476) / 5 = د.إ5962.0408 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Jun25) was د.إ5,289 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was د.إ586 Mil.
Total Current Assets was د.إ4,075 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was د.إ3,202 Mil.
Net Income was 0 + 0 + 379.362 + 445.497 = د.إ825 Mil.

Revenue was 0 + 0 + 3061.498 + 3602.723 = د.إ6,664 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 941.145 + 1079.301 = د.إ2,020 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec23)
to the end of last year (Jun25) was
(2981.188 + 3484.244 + 4064.973 + 4791.744 + 5288.689) / 5 = د.إ4122.1676 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec23) was د.إ2,981 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was د.إ349 Mil.
Total Current Assets was د.إ3,363 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was د.إ2,456 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.

Talabat Holding's current Net Income (TTM) was 1,128. ==> 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.

Talabat Holding's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,162. ==> 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 (Jun25)
=1127.823/5288.689
=0.2132519

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec23)
=824.859/2981.188
=0.27668802

Talabat Holding's return on assets of this year was 0.2132519. Talabat Holding's return on assets of last year was 0.27668802. ==> 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.

Talabat Holding's current Net Income (TTM) was 1,128. Talabat Holding's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,162. ==> 1,162 > 1,128 ==> 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: Jun26)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Jun25 to Jun26
=586.444/5962.0408
=0.09836296

Gearing (Last Year: Jun25)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec23 to Jun25
=349.075/4122.1676
=0.08468239

Talabat Holding's gearing of this year was 0.09836296. Talabat Holding's gearing of last year was 0.08468239. ==> 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: Jun26)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=4075.422/3202.497
=1.27257637

Current Ratio (Last Year: Jun25)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=3362.625/2455.568
=1.36938786

Talabat Holding's current ratio of this year was 1.27257637. Talabat Holding's current ratio of last year was 1.36938786. ==> 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.

Talabat Holding's number of shares in issue this year was 23208.574. Talabat Holding's number of shares in issue last year was 23288.241. ==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.

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
=3092.66/11726.39
=0.26373505

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=2020.446/6664.221
=0.30317812

Talabat Holding's gross margin of this year was 0.26373505. Talabat Holding's gross margin of last year was 0.30317812. ==> 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 (Jun25)
=11726.39/5288.689
=2.21725838

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec23)
=6664.221/2981.188
=2.2354246

Talabat Holding's asset turnover of this year was 2.21725838. Talabat Holding's asset turnover of last year was 2.2354246. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

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+0+0+1+0+0
=4

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

Talabat Holding has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Frequently Asked Questions Learn more about Piotroski F-Score →
What does a Piotroski F-Score of 4 mean?
Talabat Holding (DFM:TALABAT) has a Piotroski F-Score of 4 as of Aug. 23, 2026. The Piotroski F-score grades a company's business operating strength from 0-9. View historical data on Talabat Holding and its competitors. This is 33% below median its historical median of 6.00. Over the past decade, Talabat Holding's Piotroski F-Score has ranged from 4.00 to 7.00. According to the industry distribution chart, Talabat Holding ranks #800 out of 1100 companies in the Retail - Cyclical industry, placing it in the top 72.7%.
Is Talabat Holding's Piotroski F-Score too high?
Talabat Holding's current Piotroski F-Score of 4 is 33% below median its 10-year median of 6.00. Over the past 10 years, this metric has ranged from a low of 4.00 to a high of 7.00. The Retail - Cyclical industry median Piotroski F-Score is 6.00. Talabat Holding's value of 4 is 33.3% below this industry median. Based on the distribution chart, Talabat Holding ranks #800 out of 1100 companies in the Retail - Cyclical industry, which is below the industry midpoint. Overall, Talabat Holding has a GF Score™ of 30/100, reflecting its overall financial health beyond just this single metric.
How does Talabat Holding's Piotroski F-Score compare to AMZN and BABA?
According to the Retail - Cyclical industry distribution chart, Talabat Holding ranks #800 out of 1100 companies for Piotroski F-Score. This places Talabat Holding in the lower half of its industry. The industry median Piotroski F-Score is 6.00. Talabat Holding's value of 4 is 33.3% below this benchmark. Historically, Talabat Holding's own Piotroski F-Score has ranged from 4.00 to 7.00 over the past decade. While the company's 10-year median is 6.00 vs. the industry median of 6.00, Talabat Holding has consistently been below the industry average. See the competitive comparison table and distribution chart on this page for a detailed peer-by-peer breakdown.
What is a good Piotroski F-Score for a Retail - Cyclical company?
The median Piotroski F-Score among Retail - Cyclical companies is 6.00, based on 1,100 companies in the industry. Companies in the top quartile (top 25%) have a Piotroski F-Score significantly above this median, while those in the bottom quartile fall well below. However, Piotroski F-Score should not be evaluated in isolation — investors should consider it alongside profitability, growth, and financial strength metrics. Talabat Holding's current Piotroski F-Score of 4 is 33.3% below the industry median. Use the industry distribution chart on this page to see where any company falls relative to its peers.
What does a high Piotroski F-Score mean?
A high Piotroski F-Score can signal that a stock is expensive relative to its fundamentals. The Piotroski F-score grades a company's business operating strength from 0-9. View historical data on Talabat Holding and its competitors. For the Retail - Cyclical industry, the median Piotroski F-Score is 6.00 — values significantly above this may indicate overvaluation, while values below may suggest a bargain or underlying issues. Talabat Holding's current Piotroski F-Score is 4, which is 33% below median its own 10-year median of 6.00. However, context matters — high-growth companies often justify higher valuations. Always evaluate alongside other metrics like GF Score™ and GF Value™.
Is Talabat Holding stock overvalued right now?
Talabat Holding (DFM:TALABAT) has a current Piotroski F-Score of 4. The current Piotroski F-Score is 4, which is 33% below median its 10-year median of 6.00 and 33.3% below the Retail - Cyclical industry median of 6.00. Talabat Holding's overall GF Score™ is 30/100 with 4 warning signs to review. Investors should evaluate multiple metrics — including profitability, growth, and financial strength — before making a decision.
How is Piotroski F-Score calculated?
Piotroski F-Score is calculated from a company's financial statements. For Talabat Holding (DFM:TALABAT), the current Piotroski F-Score is 4 as of Aug. 23, 2026. GuruFocus calculates this using data sourced from SEC filings and annual reports. See the calculation section and 30-year financial data on this page for the full breakdown.

Talabat Holding Business Description

Address Sky Tower, Unit Number 2341, 23rd Floor, Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi, ARE
Talabat Holding PLC is engaged in the on-demand online food ordering, delivery, takeaway and groceries and convenience retail marketplace in the MENA region, with operations in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Jordan, and Iraq.
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