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CIFR (Cipher Mining) Piotroski F-Score : 2 (As of Jul. 10, 2025)


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What is Cipher Mining Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 2 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Cipher Mining has an F-score of 2. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

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

CIFR' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 4   Max: 6
Current: 2

During the past 4 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Cipher Mining was 6. The lowest was 2. And the median was 4.


Cipher Mining Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cipher Mining'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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Cipher Mining Piotroski F-Score Chart

Cipher Mining Annual Data
Trend Jan21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Piotroski F-Score
N/A N/A 4.00 2.00

Cipher Mining Quarterly Data
Jan21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 6.00 5.00 2.00 2.00

Competitive Comparison of Cipher Mining's Piotroski F-Score

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Cipher Mining'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.


Cipher Mining's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, Cipher Mining's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cipher Mining'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 -15.291 + -86.754 + 17.51 + -38.975 = $-123.5 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -25.352 + -6.545 + -28.978 + -47.238 = $-108.1 Mil.
Revenue was 36.808 + 24.102 + 42.223 + 48.959 = $152.1 Mil.
Gross Profit was 6.242 + -5.699 + 7.285 + 19.762 = $27.6 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar24)
to the end of this year (Mar25) was
(677.141 + 775.592 + 775.438 + 855.446 + 913.792) / 5 = $799.4818 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar24) was $677.1 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $15.8 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $154.6 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $138.7 Mil.
Net Income was -13.198 + -18.621 + 10.595 + 39.9 = $18.7 Mil.

Revenue was 31.224 + 30.304 + 43.419 + 48.137 = $153.1 Mil.
Gross Profit was 2.688 + 0.225 + 14.404 + 20.281 = $37.6 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar23)
to the end of last year (Mar24) was
(412.685 + 416.723 + 416.49 + 566.137 + 677.141) / 5 = $497.8352 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar23) was $412.7 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $16.1 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $250.2 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $31.0 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.

Cipher Mining's current Net Income (TTM) was -123.5. ==> 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.

Cipher Mining's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -108.1. ==> 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)
=-123.51/677.141
=-0.18239923

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar23)
=18.676/412.685
=0.04525486

Cipher Mining's return on assets of this year was -0.18239923. Cipher Mining's return on assets of last year was 0.04525486. ==> 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.

Cipher Mining's current Net Income (TTM) was -123.5. Cipher Mining's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -108.1. ==> -108.1 > -123.5 ==> 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
=15.821/799.4818
=0.01978907

Gearing (Last Year: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=16.146/497.8352
=0.03243242

Cipher Mining's gearing of this year was 0.01978907. Cipher Mining's gearing of last year was 0.03243242. ==> This year is lower or equal to last year. ==> Score 1.

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
=154.557/138.741
=1.11399658

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=250.23/30.98
=8.07714655

Cipher Mining's current ratio of this year was 1.11399658. Cipher Mining's current ratio of last year was 8.07714655. ==> 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.

Cipher Mining's number of shares in issue this year was 360.515. Cipher Mining's number of shares in issue last year was 304.398. ==> 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
=27.59/152.092
=0.18140336

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=37.598/153.084
=0.24560372

Cipher Mining's gross margin of this year was 0.18140336. Cipher Mining's gross margin of last year was 0.24560372. ==> 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 (Mar24)
=152.092/677.141
=0.22460905

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar23)
=153.084/412.685
=0.37094636

Cipher Mining's asset turnover of this year was 0.22460905. Cipher Mining's asset turnover of last year was 0.37094636. ==> 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
=0+0+0+1+1+0+0+0+0
=2

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

Cipher Mining has an F-score of 2. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Cipher Mining  (NAS:CIFR) 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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Cipher Mining Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Floor 54, Suite C, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Cipher Mining Inc ia an emerging technology company that operates in the Bitcoin mining ecosystem in the United States. The company is developing a cryptocurrency mining business, specializing in Bitcoin. The company is expanding and strengthening the Bitcoin network's critical infrastructure in the United States.
Executives
Bitfury Top Holdco B.v. 10 percent owner STRAWINSKYLAAN 3051, AMSTERDAM, NOORD-HOLLAND P7 1077 ZX
Patrick Arthur Kelly officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
William Iwaschuk officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
Cary M Grossman director
Robert Flatley director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
Tyler Page director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, RYE NY 10017
Dykes Robert R B director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
James E Newsome director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
Bitfury Group Ltd 10 percent owner STRAWINSKYLAAN 3051, AMSTERDAM, NOORD-HOLLAND P7 1077 ZX
Bitfury Holding B.v. 10 percent owner STRAWINSKYLAAN 3051, AMSTERDAM, NOORD-HOLLAND P7 1077 ZX
V3 Holding Ltd 10 percent owner C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 222 PURCHASE STREET, SUITE #290, RYE NY 10580
Valerijis Vavilovs 10 percent owner C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 222 PURCHASE STREET, SUITE #290, RYE NY 10580
Holly Morrow Evans director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
Caitlin Long director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017
Wesley Hastie Williams director C/O CIPHER MINING INC., 1 VANDERBILT AVENUE, FLOOR 54, SUITE C, NEW YORK NY 10017