Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Boulder Brands has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Boulder Brands's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Boulder Brands Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Boulder Brands'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.
Boulder Brands's current Net Income (TTM) was 0.7.
==> Positive ==> Score 1.
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.
Boulder Brands's return on assets of this year was 0.00102022. Boulder Brands's return on assets of last year was -0.17055085.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Boulder Brands's gearing of this year was 0.44318591. Boulder Brands's gearing of last year was 0.40432533.
==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.
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
Boulder Brands's current ratio of this year was 2.30137107. Boulder Brands's current ratio of last year was 2.15573232.
==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.
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.
Boulder Brands's number of shares in issue this year was 63.052. Boulder Brands's number of shares in issue last year was 61.033.
==> There is larger number of shares in issue this year. ==> Score 0.
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.
Boulder Brands's gross margin of this year was 0.36051555. Boulder Brands's gross margin of last year was 0.38097704.
==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.
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
Boulder Brands's asset turnover of this year was 0.77269154. Boulder Brands's asset turnover of last year was 0.70666432.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Boulder Brands has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
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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Boulder Brands (Boulder Brands) Business Description
Boulder Brands Inc, a Delaware corporation was incorporated on May 31, 2005. The Company was formerly known as Smart Balance, Inc. The Company is a marketer of functional food products under the Smart Balance, Earth Balance and Bestlife trademarks. Its products are sold in mass merchandise, grocery, natural food, and club stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Company's health and wellness platform consists of brands that target specific health trends: the Glutino and Udi's Gluten Free brands for gluten-free diets; the Earth Balance brand for plant-based diets; the Level Life brand for diabetic diets; EVOL foods for consumers seeking pure and simple ingredients; and the Smart Balance brand for heart healthier diets. The Company distributes its products in all key retail channels, including natural, grocery, club and mass merchandise, and also has a presence in the foodservice and industrial channels. Its business consists of two reportable segments: Smart Balance and Natural. The Natural segment consists of its Glutino, Udi's, Earth Balance and EVOL branded products. The Smart Balance segment consists of its Smart Balance branded products in spreads, butter, grocery and milk and its Level Life products. A majority of its products are sold through supermarket chains and food wholesalers. Its products are available in all 50 states. The Company's products compete with branded products as well as generic and private-label products of food retailers, wholesalers and cooperatives. The Company attempts to protect its intellectual property rights through a combination of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret laws, as well as licensing agreements, third-party confidentiality, nondisclosure, and assignment agreements, and by policing third-party misuses of its intellectual property. The manufacturing, packaging, labeling, advertising, distribution and sale of its products are subject to regulation by various government agencies.
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