Interplay Entertainment (Interplay Entertainment) Piotroski F-Score : 0 (As of May. 17, 2024)

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What is Interplay Entertainment Piotroski F-Score?

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

Interplay Entertainment has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

The historical rank and industry rank for Interplay Entertainment's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

Interplay Entertainment Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

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How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

This Year (Mar11) TTM:

Last Year (Mar10) TTM:

Net Income was -0.302 + -0.214 + -0.239 + -0.347 = $-1.10 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -0.255 + -0.035 + 0.06 + 0.05 = $-0.18 Mil.
Revenue was 0.315 + 0.326 + 0.464 + 0.205 = $1.31 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.261 + 0.283 + 0.381 + 0.175 = $1.10 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar10)
to the end of this year (Mar11) was
(0.674 + 0.311 + 0.279 + 0.291 + 0.219) / 5 = $0.3548 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar10) was $0.67 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.19 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $3.42 Mil.

Net Income was -0.771 + -0.015 + -0.462 + -0.275 = $-1.52 Mil.

Revenue was 0.251 + 0.51 + 0.506 + 0.276 = $1.54 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.142 + 0.391 + 0.568 + 0.26 = $1.36 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar09)
to the end of last year (Mar10) was
(0.378 + 0.312 + 0.405 + 0.197 + 0.674) / 5 = $0.3932 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar09) was $0.38 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.64 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $2.74 Mil.

*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.

Interplay Entertainment's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.10. ==> 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.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Interplay Entertainment's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -0.18. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

Question 3. Change in Return on Assets

Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)	=	Net Income	/	Total Assets (Mar10)
	=	-1.102	/	0.674
	=	-1.63501484

ROA (Last Year)	=	Net Income	/	Total Assets (Mar09)
	=	-1.523	/	0.378
	=	-4.02910053

Interplay Entertainment's return on assets of this year was -1.63501484. Interplay Entertainment's return on assets of last year was -4.02910053. ==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)

Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)

Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.

Interplay Entertainment's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.10. Interplay Entertainment's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -0.18. ==> -0.18 > -1.10 ==> CFROA > ROA ==> Score 1.

Funding

Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage

Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.

Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.

Gearing (This Year: Mar11)	=	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	/	Average Total Assets from Mar10 to Mar11
	=	0	/	0.3548
	=	0

Gearing (Last Year: Mar10)	=	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	/	Average Total Assets from Mar09 to Mar10
	=	0	/	0.3932
	=	0

Interplay Entertainment's gearing of this year was 0. Interplay Entertainment's gearing of last year was 0. ==> 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

Current Ratio (This Year: Mar11)	=	Total Current Assets	/	Total Current Liabilities
	=	0.189	/	3.416
	=	0.05532787

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar10)	=	Total Current Assets	/	Total Current Liabilities
	=	0.636	/	2.742
	=	0.23194748

Interplay Entertainment's current ratio of this year was 0.05532787. Interplay Entertainment's current ratio of last year was 0.23194748. ==> 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.

Interplay Entertainment's number of shares in issue this year was 122.662. Interplay Entertainment's number of shares in issue last year was 113.233. ==> 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.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)	=	Gross Profit	/	Revenue
	=	1.1	/	1.31
	=	0.83969466

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)	=	Gross Profit	/	Revenue
	=	1.361	/	1.543
	=	0.88204796

Interplay Entertainment's gross margin of this year was 0.83969466. Interplay Entertainment's gross margin of last year was 0.88204796. ==> 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

Asset Turnover (This Year)	=	Revenue	/	Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Mar10)
	=	1.31	/	0.674
	=	1.94362018

Asset Turnover (Last Year)	=	Revenue	/	Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar09)
	=	1.543	/	0.378
	=	4.08201058

Interplay Entertainment's asset turnover of this year was 1.94362018. Interplay Entertainment's asset turnover of last year was 4.08201058. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

Interplay Entertainment has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Interplay Entertainment (OTCPK:IPLY) 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.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers" (pdf).

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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