Criteo S.A. CRTO
Criteo S.A. (CRTO) earns a Piotroski F-score of 8/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It does not currently pay a dividend. FY2025 revenue was $1.9B at a 7.4% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.99 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 8/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.103 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.287 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.092 |
| Equity / liabilities | 1.168 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRTO | Criteo S.A. | 8/9 | 3.46 | 6.1 | +0.6% |
| STGW | Stagwell Inc | 5/9 | 0.02 | 60 | +2.4% |
| GRPN | Groupon, Inc. | 3/9 | -7.66 | — | +1.2% |
| SWAG | Stran & Company, Inc. | 4/9 | 3.88 | — | +40.6% |
| YDKG | Yueda Digital Holding | 5/9 | — | — | — |
| KDOZF | KIDOZ INC. | 7/9 | -5.94 | 57.5 | +31.6% |
| VSME | VS MEDIA Holdings Ltd | 4/9 | -15.1 | — | — |
About Criteo S.A.
Criteo S.A., a technology company, provides platform to connects the commerce ecosystem for brands, agencies, retailers, and media owners to drive measurable business outcomes in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates in two segments, Retail Media and Performance Media. The Retail Media segment connects brands to shoppers at the digital point of sale through personalized ads that appear on retailer websites and across the open internet. The Performance Media segment encompasses commerce activation, monetization, and services that enable advertisers to reach and convert consumers across channels. It also offers Commerce Max, a suite of retail media demand-side tools that allow brands, agencies, and retailers to plan and buy media across retailer and open internet inventory with closed-loop, product-level measurement, and return-on-ad-spend optimization; Commerce Growth, a solution for continuous customer acquisition and retention for performance marketers and agencies; and GO, an AI-driven solution that automates campaign creation and optimization. In addition, the company provides Commerce Yield, which offers monetization solutions that help retailers and marketplaces maximize the value of their digital assets through inventory and data management, packaging, and in-depth insights; Commerce Grid, a commerce-focused supply side platform for media owner data and inventory monetization; and Criteo Shopper Graph, which derives clients' proprietary commerce data, such as transaction activity on their digital properties. It serves retail, travel and marketplaces, and other commerce companies. Criteo S.A. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
FAQ
Is CRTO financially healthy?
Criteo S.A.'s Piotroski F-score is 8/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does CRTO pay a dividend?
No, Criteo S.A. does not currently pay a dividend.
How profitable is CRTO?
In FY2025, Criteo S.A. had a net margin of 7.4% and a return on equity of 12.2%.
Is CRTO overvalued or undervalued?
Criteo S.A. trades at about 6.6× trailing earnings — below its 10-year norm (10-year range 7.3×–216.1×, median 19.0×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for CRTO?
The average Wall-Street price target for Criteo S.A. is $24.64, about 41.9% above the recent price, from 11 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is CRTO a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Criteo S.A.: a Piotroski F-score of 8/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 6.1×. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.