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STNE (StoneCo) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of Mar. 18, 2025)


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What is StoneCo 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

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

STNE' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 5   Max: 8
Current: 4

During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of StoneCo was 8. The lowest was 2. And the median was 5.


StoneCo Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for StoneCo'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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StoneCo Piotroski F-Score Chart

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, StoneCo'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.


StoneCo's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, StoneCo's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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


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 (Sep24) TTM:Last Year (Sep23) TTM:
Net Income was 132.924 + 74.899 + 92.11 + 97.456 = $397 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -85.028 + -496.618 + -132.948 + -23.739 = $-738 Mil.
Revenue was 632.259 + 591.922 + 573.224 + 580.248 = $2,378 Mil.
Gross Profit was 468.437 + 429.28 + 417.012 + 425.124 = $1,740 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Sep23)
to the end of this year (Sep24) was
(8875.496 + 9937.867 + 10364.349 + 9784.397 + 9376.591) / 5 = $9667.74 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Sep23) was $8,875 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,304 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $7,221 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $5,069 Mil.
Net Income was 15.032 + 43.512 + 62.915 + 82.766 = $204 Mil.

Revenue was 490.719 + 490.195 + 568.637 + 597.902 = $2,147 Mil.
Gross Profit was 357.659 + 351.717 + 427.445 + 441.285 = $1,578 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Sep22)
to the end of last year (Sep23) was
(7576.724 + 8053.807 + 7777.783 + 8395.801 + 8875.496) / 5 = $8135.9222 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Sep22) was $7,577 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $553 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $6,565 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $5,169 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.

StoneCo's current Net Income (TTM) was 397. ==> 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.

StoneCo's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -738. ==> 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 (Sep23)
=397.389/8875.496
=0.04477372

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Sep22)
=204.225/7576.724
=0.02695426

StoneCo's return on assets of this year was 0.04477372. StoneCo's return on assets of last year was 0.02695426. ==> 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.

StoneCo's current Net Income (TTM) was 397. StoneCo's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -738. ==> -738 <= 397 ==> CFROA <= ROA ==> Score 0.

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: Sep24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep23 to Sep24
=1303.519/9667.74
=0.13483182

Gearing (Last Year: Sep23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep22 to Sep23
=552.582/8135.9222
=0.06791879

StoneCo's gearing of this year was 0.13483182. StoneCo's gearing of last year was 0.06791879. ==> 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: Sep24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=7221.306/5069.293
=1.42451936

Current Ratio (Last Year: Sep23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=6565.09/5168.93
=1.27010619

StoneCo's current ratio of this year was 1.42451936. StoneCo's current ratio of last year was 1.27010619. ==> 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.

StoneCo's number of shares in issue this year was 303.571. StoneCo's number of shares in issue last year was 326.889. ==> 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
=1739.853/2377.653
=0.73175228

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=1578.106/2147.453
=0.73487336

StoneCo's gross margin of this year was 0.73175228. StoneCo's gross margin of last year was 0.73487336. ==> 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 (Sep23)
=2377.653/8875.496
=0.26788959

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Sep22)
=2147.453/7576.724
=0.28342764

StoneCo's asset turnover of this year was 0.26788959. StoneCo's asset turnover of last year was 0.28342764. ==> 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+0+1+0+0+1+1+0+0
=4

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

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

StoneCo  (NAS:STNE) 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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StoneCo Business Description

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Address
103 South Church Street, 4th Floor, Harbour Place, P.O. Box 10240, Grand Cayman, CYM, KY1-1002
StoneCo Ltd is a provider of financial technology solutions. It serves MSMBs great solutions, at fair prices, and provides the customer experience to help them manage their businesses and sell more. Its Stone Business Model combines end-to-end, cloud-based technology platforms; differentiated hyper-local and integrated distribution approaches; and white-glove, on-demand customer service. It has two segments Financial Services offers payments, digital banking, and credit solutions, focusing Ton solution mainly on micro-merchants, and Stone solution on SMBs. In Software, it offers POS and ERP solutions for different retail and services verticals, Customer Relationship Management, engagement tools, e-commerce, and Order Management System solutions, among others.

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