Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
American DG Energy has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
The historical rank and industry rank for American DG Energy's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
American DG Energy Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for American DG Energy'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.
* 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.
*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.
American DG Energy's current Net Income (TTM) was -0.30.
==> 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.
American DG Energy's return on assets of this year was -0.00923483. American DG Energy's return on assets of last year was -0.14116242.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
American DG Energy's gearing of this year was 0.0343751. American DG Energy's gearing of last year was 0.59124794.
==> 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
American DG Energy's current ratio of this year was 2.28837209. American DG Energy's current ratio of last year was 3.77899344.
==> 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.
American DG Energy's number of shares in issue this year was 50.684. American DG Energy's number of shares in issue last year was 50.684.
==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.
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.
American DG Energy's gross margin of this year was 0.03850558. American DG Energy's gross margin of last year was -0.03454151.
==> This year's gross margin is higher. ==> Score 1.
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
American DG Energy's asset turnover of this year was 0.21433393. American DG Energy's asset turnover of last year was 0.17133758.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
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American DG Energy has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
American DG Energy (AMEX:ADGE) 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.
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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American DG Energy (American DG Energy) Business Description
American DG Energy Inc is a Delaware corporation was incorporated on July 24, 2001. The Company installs, owns, operates and maintains complete DG systems, or energy systems, and other complementary systems at customer sites and sells electricity, hot water, heat and cooling energy under long-term contracts at prices guaranteed to the customer to be below conventional utility rates. As of December 31, 2013, the Company had installed 109 energy systems. The energy systems are generally owned by the Company and are installed in its customers' buildings. Each month the Company obtains readings from energy meters to determine the amount of energy produced for each customer. Its business is selling energy in the form of electricity, heat, hot water and cooling to its customers under long-term sales agreements. In the United Kingdom, it competes with Cogenco Limited, a subsidiary of Dalkia PLC, an alternative energy company with customers in the 50-500 kW range, ENER-G Holdings plc and Jenbacher, a subsidiary of General Electric Company. Other companies in the same market are Clarke Energy Ltd, EC Power Systems and Baxi-SenerTec UK. In Belgium, CHP equipment manufacturers are non-Belgian companies, including CogenGreen S.A., Capstone Turbine Corporation and Cummins Power Generation Inc., which are its primary competitors in the 50-500 kW range. In Spain, it competes with Baxi-SenerTec UK, MicroPower Europe, Guascor Power, Cummins Power Generation Inc., Icogen SA and Pasch y Cia SA. Icogen SA, based in Barcelona, is a Spanish supplier for systems below 500 kW. The Company is subject to extensive government regulation.
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