Taiwan Multi-Axis Quality Profile — we deliberately leave one axis blank
Comparable snowflake charts have five axes; the fifth is “future” — an analyst consensus on one-to-three-year earnings and revenue growth. We have no consensus data and do not forecast. Extrapolating our own historical trend into that axis would dress a projection up as a fact, and the reader would see a full pentagon without knowing one corner was invented. So this chart has four axes and a grey gap where the fifth would be, with the reason stated in the response itself.
What the four axes ask
Value uses peer-multiple percentiles; growth asks the direction of revenue and earnings; financial health draws on the health check, Piotroski and distress distance; dividend asks whether payouts are affordable and stable. Every axis ships a component breakdown: name, raw value, converted score, direction.
An axis score is the plain arithmetic mean of the available component scores — not a weighting we invented. This module contains no new formula, weight constant or threshold, so any reader can recompute it.
Missing data is drawn as a gap, never as zero
When every component of an axis is unavailable the axis returns null with an undetermined status and a reason, and is drawn as a gap. Zero and unknown are different facts; collapsing both onto the centre would make a company whose statements are merely unpublished look like the worst one on screen.
We do not backfill with zeros, peer averages or a later restated statement to complete the shape. Filling makes the picture prettier at the cost of it no longer matching any actual disclosure.
Why the shape is readable but the area is not
The axes carry different units and different reference populations, so summing them or computing an area requires weights with no basis. This page therefore provides no composite, no rank, no target price and no trading signal.
The chart is for seeing which way a company leans and then drilling into an axis to see why. Overlaying two charts to judge which is “bigger” is the most common and least meaningful use of it.