Validea Joseph Piotroski Strategy Daily Upgrade Report - 6/12/2025

The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Book/Market Investor model based on the published strategy of Joseph Piotroski. This value-quant strategy screens for high book-to-market stocks, and then separates out financially sound firms by looking at a host of improving financial criteria. MOTORCAR PARTS OF AMERICA INC (MPAA) is a small-cap value stock in the Auto & Truck Parts industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Joseph Piotroski changed from 60% to 80% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. is a supplier of automotive aftermarket non-discretionary replacement parts and test solutions and diagnostic equipment. Its Hard Parts segment includes light duty rotating electric products, such as alternators and starters, wheel hub products, brake-related products, including brake calipers, brake boosters, brake rotors, brake pads and brake master cylinders, and turbochargers. The Test Solutions and Diagnostic Equipment segment includes applications for combustion engine vehicles, including bench-top testers for alternators and starters, equipment for the pre- and post-production of electric vehicles, and software emulation of power system applications for the electrification of all forms of transportation (including automobiles, trucks, and electric vehicle charging stations). Its Heavy Duty segment includes non-discretionary automotive aftermarket replacement hard parts for heavy-duty truck, industrial, marine, and agricultural applications.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria. BOOK/MARKET RATIO:PASSRETURN ON ASSETS:FAILCHANGE IN RETURN ON ASSETS:PASSCASH FLOW FROM OPERATIONS:PASSCASH COMPARED TO NET INCOME:PASSCHANGE IN LONG TERM DEBT/ASSETSFAILCHANGE IN CURRENT RATIO:PASSCHANGE IN SHARES OUTSTANDING:PASSCHANGE IN GROSS MARGIN:PASSCHANGE IN ASSET TURNOVER:PASS Detailed Analysis of MOTORCAR PARTS OF AMERICA INC MPAA Guru Analysis MPAA Fundamental Analysis Joseph Piotroski Portfolio About Joseph Piotroski: Piotroski isn't your typical Wall Street big shot. In fact, he's not even a professional investor. He's a good old numbers-crunching accountant and college professor.

But in 2000, shortly after he started teaching at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, Piotroski published a groundbreaking paper in the Journal of Accounting Research entitled "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers". In it, Piotroski laid out an accounting-based stock-selection/shorting method that produced a 23 percent average annual back-tested return from 1976 through 1996 -- more than double the S&P 500's gain during that time. Piotroski's findings were reported in major financial publiations like SmartMoney. Today, he teaches accounting at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. About Validea: Validea is aninvestment researchservice that follows the published strategies of investment legends.

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