Earnings Quality
Financial Forensics
Ranked vs Vietnamese peers. The −1.78 Beneish cutoff is US-calibrated; ~28% of VN stocks exceed it.
Checks measured on Vietnamese companies · FY2025
- Receivables outside the trade cyclePrepayments to suppliers, loans and other long-term receivables / total assets
- 25.5%93rd pctile
- Accumulated losses / paid-in capitalUndistributed earnings below zero
- 1.23×Statutory test met
- Consecutive years of net lossProfit after tax of the parent
- 0
- Owner's equityWithout the non-controlling interest
- NegativeStatutory test met
Percentiles rank each fiscal year against Vietnamese non-financial companies (0 lowest, 100 highest). Over FY2015-2024, low cash conversion and a large share of receivables outside the trade cycle came before more listing trouble and more net losses the next year.
Statutory loss tests (Decree 155/2020/NĐ-CP, Art. 120(1)(e), amended by Decree 245/2025/NĐ-CP): a HOSE or HNX listing is cancelled when the audited annual statements show net losses in each of the latest 3 years, accumulated losses above the paid-in charter capital, or negative owner's equity. Read here from the annual statements as the data vendor publishes them. The company trades on UPCoM, where these tests do not apply.
The company shows multiple accounting signals of aggressive revenue/receivable recognition and balance-sheet weakness: a Beneish M-Score of -0.6084 (90th percentile versus Vietnamese peers; year-over-year change -3.03) driven particularly by a very high DSRI (3.3556) and DEPI (5.3490). Earnings-quality metrics are mixed — accruals and cash conversion score 100/100, but receivables, margin and revenue quality all score 0/100 — while the Altman Z-Score is -0.58 (distress zone) and the Piotroski F-Score is 6/9 (neutral fundamentals).
- Beneish M-Score -0.6084 (90th percentile vs Vietnamese peers; YoY change -3.03). The M-Score measures likelihood of earnings manipulation relative to accounting-variable models; in Vietnam, ~28% cross the US -1.78 cutoff, so peer percentile and trajectory are important.
- DSRI (Days' Sales Receivable Index) = 3.3556. DSRI measures receivables growth relative to sales and signals receivable-based revenue recognition pressure.
- DEPI (Depreciation Index) = 5.3490. DEPI >1 indicates a slowdown in depreciation expense (or asset-life extension), which can inflate reported earnings or carrying values.
- SGAI (Sales, General & Administrative Index) = 1.7035. SGAI >1 shows SG&A growing faster than sales, which can signal expense capitalization or cost recognition timing issues.
- Receivables outside the trade cycle = 25.5% of total assets (93rd percentile among Vietnamese non-financials). This includes prepayments to suppliers, loans receivable and other long-term receivables and points to material non-trade receivables on the balance sheet.
- Earnings-quality breakdown: Accruals quality 100/100 and cash conversion 100/100, but Receivables quality 0/100, Margin quality 0/100 and Revenue quality 0/100. This pattern indicates clean accrual/cash metrics but very weak revenue and receivable quality.
- Altman Z-Score = -0.58 (distress zone). The Z-Score measures distance to bankruptcy using working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity and sales, and a negative value indicates high financial distress under its model.
- Accumulated losses = 1.23x paid-in capital; Owner's equity excluding minority interest is negative. These are balance-sheet solvency concerns in the published statements.
- Statutory loss tests: audited FY2025 statements show accumulated losses above paid-in capital and negative owner's equity. The company is listed on UPCoM where the Hanoi/HOSE statutory automatic-cancellation rule does not apply; this is a factual statement about the published statements.
- Director-deal registrations over 2025-10-30 to 2026-10-30: 0 sale registrations and 6 purchase registrations (total registered 1,065,000 shares), net registered volume +4.08% of shares outstanding. Registrations are intentions filed with the exchange, not executed trades.
- Accruals quality = 100/100. This score measures how much reported earnings are driven by accruals; a high score indicates low abnormal accruals in the metric used.
- Cash conversion = 100/100. This measures operating-cash conversion of earnings; a high score indicates strong cash conversion relative to reported profits.
- Piotroski F-Score = 6/9. The Piotroski score summarizes nine fundamentals (profitability, leverage/liquidity, operating efficiency); a 6 indicates generally neutral-to-fair operating and financial fundamentals.
Top individual shareholders are concentrated: Nguyễn Đức Hải 10.8%, Nguyễn Thanh Sơn 6.9%, Vũ Tiến Việt 4.8%, plus three other individuals totaling another ~7.2% (aggregate ~25.5%). There is no listed controlling state or corporate group in the provided data; director-deal registrations show net registered insider purchases equal to +4.08% of outstanding shares (registrations, not executed trades).
- Compare the FY2025 line items for 'Receivables' / 'Loans receivable' / 'Prepayments to suppliers' in the balance sheet with the related-party note and the long-term receivables schedule to quantify how much of the 25.5% of assets are non-trade or related-party.
- Reconcile revenue, trade receivables and days-sales-outstanding in the revenue note and the receivables ageing schedule to assess the drivers of DSRI = 3.3556 (e.g., rapid receivables growth, write-offs, or changes in collection terms).
- Inspect the depreciation policy note and fixed-asset schedule for useful lives, changes in depreciation method or revaluation entries that could explain DEPI = 5.3490 (slowdown in depreciation expense or asset-life extensions).
- Verify the components of owner's equity and the accumulated loss line in the statement of changes in equity to confirm the 1.23x accumulated-losses-to-paid-in-capital ratio and the reported negative owner's equity (exclude minority interest reconciling items).
Generated by AI based on quantitative data. Not financial advice.
Quantitative Scores
Key Ratios
- P/B
- —
- P/S
- 0.75
- ROE
- −1.7%
- ROA
- 0.1%
- EPS
- 39
- BVPS
- −2.240
- Gross Margin
- 100.0%
- Net Margin
- 2.8%
- D/E
- —
- Current Ratio
- 0.82
- Rev Growth
- −70.9%
- Profit Growth
- +123.5%
- EV/EBITDA
- 51.89
- Div Yield
- —
Company Overview
- Shares outstanding
- 26.1M
- Charter Capital
- 261B VND
- Sector (ICB L2)
- Xây dựng và Vật liệu
- Industry (ICB L3)
- Xây dựng và Vật liệu
- Sub-industry
- Vật liệu xây dựng & Nội thất
- Company Type
- CT