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Sino-American Silicon Products (ROCO:5483) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of Mar. 30, 2025)


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What is Sino-American Silicon Products 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

Sino-American Silicon Products 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 Sino-American Silicon Products's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

ROCO:5483' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 6   Max: 9
Current: 4

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Sino-American Silicon Products was 9. The lowest was 3. And the median was 6.


Sino-American Silicon Products Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sino-American Silicon Products'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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Sino-American Silicon Products Piotroski F-Score Chart

Sino-American Silicon Products Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Piotroski F-Score
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Sino-American Silicon Products Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Sino-American Silicon Products's Piotroski F-Score

For the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials subindustry, Sino-American Silicon Products'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.


Sino-American Silicon Products's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Sino-American Silicon Products's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sino-American Silicon Products'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 (Dec24) TTM:Last Year (Dec23) TTM:
Net Income was 1902.01 + 1646.281 + 1323.755 + 474.213 = NT$5,346 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 2416.134 + 5601.101 + 2420.585 + 5708.418 = NT$16,146 Mil.
Revenue was 19692.155 + 19896.382 + 20124.225 + 19965.785 = NT$79,679 Mil.
Gross Profit was 6194.799 + 6358.269 + 5786.151 + 5935.508 = NT$24,275 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec23)
to the end of this year (Dec24) was
(225495.225 + 240071.479 + 273220.989 + 276858.437 + 271331.299) / 5 = NT$257395.4858 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec23) was NT$225,495 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was NT$42,917 Mil.
Total Current Assets was NT$102,804 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was NT$77,323 Mil.
Net Income was 2469.459 + 2432.202 + 2693.735 + 2248.424 = NT$9,844 Mil.

Revenue was 20903.549 + 20318.305 + 19601.385 + 21142.713 = NT$81,966 Mil.
Gross Profit was 7592.429 + 6972.14 + 6558.441 + 5563.582 = NT$26,687 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec22)
to the end of last year (Dec23) was
(196609.39 + 202642.934 + 199753.965 + 208713.006 + 225495.225) / 5 = NT$206642.904 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec22) was NT$196,609 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was NT$17,169 Mil.
Total Current Assets was NT$101,378 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was NT$87,492 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.

Sino-American Silicon Products's current Net Income (TTM) was 5,346. ==> 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.

Sino-American Silicon Products's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 16,146. ==> 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 (Dec23)
=5346.259/225495.225
=0.02370897

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=9843.82/196609.39
=0.0500679

Sino-American Silicon Products's return on assets of this year was 0.02370897. Sino-American Silicon Products's return on assets of last year was 0.0500679. ==> 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.

Sino-American Silicon Products's current Net Income (TTM) was 5,346. Sino-American Silicon Products's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 16,146. ==> 16,146 > 5,346 ==> 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: Dec24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec23 to Dec24
=42917.153/257395.4858
=0.16673623

Gearing (Last Year: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=17169.228/206642.904
=0.08308646

Sino-American Silicon Products's gearing of this year was 0.16673623. Sino-American Silicon Products's gearing of last year was 0.08308646. ==> 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: Dec24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=102804.167/77322.585
=1.32954902

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=101377.922/87492.231
=1.1587077

Sino-American Silicon Products's current ratio of this year was 1.32954902. Sino-American Silicon Products's current ratio of last year was 1.1587077. ==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.

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.

Sino-American Silicon Products's number of shares in issue this year was 635.719. Sino-American Silicon Products's number of shares in issue last year was 561.479. ==> 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
=24274.727/79678.547
=0.30465825

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=26686.592/81965.952
=0.32558143

Sino-American Silicon Products's gross margin of this year was 0.30465825. Sino-American Silicon Products's gross margin of last year was 0.32558143. ==> 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 (Dec23)
=79678.547/225495.225
=0.35334915

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec22)
=81965.952/196609.39
=0.41689744

Sino-American Silicon Products's asset turnover of this year was 0.35334915. Sino-American Silicon Products's asset turnover of last year was 0.41689744. ==> 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+1+0+0+0
=4

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

Sino-American Silicon Products has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Sino-American Silicon Products  (ROCO:5483) 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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Sino-American Silicon Products Business Description

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No. 8, Industrial East Road 2, 4th Floor, Science Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, TWN
Founded in 1981, Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. is a holding company specializing in the semiconductor industry. Its crown jewel is its 47% stake in silicon wafer producer GlobalWafers, which was carved out in 2011. GlobalWafers runs 17 production sites in nine countries across Asia, North America, and Europe. Other notable investments include Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company and Taiwan Specialty Materials. SAS started selling renewable energy to power grids in October 2022. SAS is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan. SAS employs about 8,000 people through its subsidiaries. Through GlobalWafers, SAS had nearly 17% market share in silicon wafers in 2024.

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