CLPS Incorporation Common Stock (CLPS)

FairStock Score: 44/100 — MIXED

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AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

I look for a business that earns good returns on capital and trades at a sensible price. CLPS fails the first test. At the close on 2026-10-13, the stock was $1.01, giving a market cap of $26.3M. The supplied P/E is -4.21 and EPS is -$0.24; ROE is -10.24% and ROCE is -2.53% (FairStock calculations). Those are not the marks of a durable franchise. The company provides IT services, largely for banking, plus academic education, with 3,534 employees across several countries. Banking IT can carry switching costs, but persistent losses suggest little pricing power or cost discipline. The balance sheet offers some modest support: P/B is 0.52, so the market pays about half of book value, and D/E is 0.48. But Graham would ask what that book is worth if the business keeps destroying value. The Piotroski F-Score of 1/9 and Altman Z-Score of 0.55 point to acute financial weakness, perhaps distress. The FairStock Score is 44/100. Beta of 0.72 is below the market, and the 52-week range is $0.80-$1.88, so the price sits near the low end. Growth is impossible to judge: revenue growth and profit growth are N/A, and the Lynch category is 'none' because there are only 0 years of filed results, needing 3. I would want evidence of positive earnings, stable book value, and a real margin of safety before calling this anything more than a speculative asset play.

In plain English: CLPS provides information technology services, mainly for banks, and also runs academic education services, with operations in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, the U.S., Japan, India and elsewhere. The business currently looks weak because it is losing money, and the financial health checks in the data are poor. The stock price of $1.01 is very low compared with the company's accounting net worth, so it may look cheap on assets, but the losses make that cheapness uncertain.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

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