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BYND (Beyond Meat) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of Jul. 23, 2025)


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What is Beyond Meat 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

Beyond Meat 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 Beyond Meat's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

BYND' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1   Med: 2   Max: 5
Current: 4

During the past 9 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Beyond Meat was 5. The lowest was 1. And the median was 2.


Beyond Meat Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Beyond Meat'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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Beyond Meat Piotroski F-Score Chart

Beyond Meat Annual Data
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Piotroski F-Score
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Beyond Meat Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Beyond Meat's Piotroski F-Score

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Beyond Meat'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.


Beyond Meat's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Beyond Meat's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Beyond Meat'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 (Mar25) TTM:Last Year (Mar24) TTM:
Net Income was -34.479 + -26.576 + -44.862 + -52.916 = $-158.8 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -16.009 + -22.047 + -28.952 + -26.146 = $-93.2 Mil.
Revenue was 93.185 + 81.006 + 76.658 + 68.731 = $319.6 Mil.
Gross Profit was 13.717 + 14.308 + 10.006 + -1.065 = $37.0 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar24)
to the end of this year (Mar25) was
(735.026 + 711.234 + 692.938 + 678.146 + 643.83) / 5 = $692.2348 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar24) was $735.0 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,217.5 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $257.3 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $75.9 Mil.
Net Income was -53.505 + -70.492 + -155.11 + -54.361 = $-333.5 Mil.

Revenue was 102.149 + 75.312 + 73.679 + 75.603 = $326.7 Mil.
Gross Profit was 2.273 + -7.254 + -83.859 + 3.668 = $-85.2 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar23)
to the end of last year (Mar24) was
(986.577 + 968.585 + 929.208 + 774.45 + 735.026) / 5 = $878.7692 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar23) was $986.6 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,217.6 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $336.5 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $78.8 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.

Beyond Meat's current Net Income (TTM) was -158.8. ==> 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.

Beyond Meat's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -93.2. ==> 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 (Mar24)
=-158.833/735.026
=-0.21609168

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar23)
=-333.468/986.577
=-0.33800504

Beyond Meat's return on assets of this year was -0.21609168. Beyond Meat's return on assets of last year was -0.33800504. ==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.

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.

Beyond Meat's current Net Income (TTM) was -158.8. Beyond Meat's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -93.2. ==> -93.2 > -158.8 ==> 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: Mar25)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar24 to Mar25
=1217.459/692.2348
=1.75873706

Gearing (Last Year: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=1217.638/878.7692
=1.38561752

Beyond Meat's gearing of this year was 1.75873706. Beyond Meat's gearing of last year was 1.38561752. ==> 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: Mar25)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=257.272/75.902
=3.3895286

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=336.503/78.799
=4.27039683

Beyond Meat's current ratio of this year was 3.3895286. Beyond Meat's current ratio of last year was 4.27039683. ==> 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.

Beyond Meat's number of shares in issue this year was 76.195. Beyond Meat's number of shares in issue last year was 64.702. ==> 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
=36.966/319.58
=0.11567057

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=-85.172/326.743
=-0.2606697

Beyond Meat's gross margin of this year was 0.11567057. Beyond Meat's gross margin of last year was -0.2606697. ==> This year's gross margin is higher. ==> Score 1.

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 (Mar24)
=319.58/735.026
=0.43478734

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar23)
=326.743/986.577
=0.33118854

Beyond Meat's asset turnover of this year was 0.43478734. Beyond Meat's asset turnover of last year was 0.33118854. ==> 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+1+1+0+0+0+1+1
=4

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

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

Beyond Meat  (NAS:BYND) 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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Beyond Meat Business Description

Address
888 N. Douglas Street, Suite 100, El Segundo, CA, USA, 90245
Beyond Meat Inc is a provider of plant-based meat company offering a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats. It builds meat directly from plants, an innovation that enables consumers to experience the taste, texture and other sensory attributes of popular animal-based meat products while enjoying the nutritional and environmental benefits of eating plant-based meat product It has products such as burgers, sausage, ground beef, jerky, meatballs and chicken. The company generates revenue from sales of its products to the customers across mainstream grocery, mass merchandiser, club store, convenience store and natural retailer channels and various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets and schools, mainly in the United States.
Executives
Ethan Brown director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 1325 E. EL SEGUNDO BLVD., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Chad M Peffer officer: Interim Chief Growth Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 888 N. DOUGLAS STREET, SUITE 100, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
C James Koch director C/O THE BOSTON BEER COMPANY, ONE DESIGN CENTER PLACE, SUITE 850, BOSTON MA 02210
Akerho Oghoghomeh officer: See Remarks C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Dariush Ajami officer: Chief Innovation Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 1325 E. EL SEGUNDO BLVD., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Lubi Kutua officer: CFO, Treasurer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Beth Moskowitz officer: Chief Creative Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Sharman Robert M Jr officer: See Remarks C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Henry Dieu officer: See Remarks. C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Brad Hiranaga officer: SEE REMARKS C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Jay Colleen director C/O THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC., 6140 STONERIDGE MALL ROAD, SUITE 590, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Diane Carhart director C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 1325 E. EL SEGUNDO BLVD., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Teri L Witteman officer: General Counsel, Secretary 20333 S. NORMANDIE AVE, TORRANCE CA 90502
George Bernard Adcock officer: Chief Suppy Chain Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD ST., EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Douglas Wayne Ramsey officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O BEYOND MEAT, INC., 119 STANDARD STREET, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245