Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Elizabeth Arden has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Elizabeth Arden's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Elizabeth Arden Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Elizabeth Arden'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.
Elizabeth Arden's current Net Income (TTM) was -71.8.
==> 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.
Elizabeth Arden's return on assets of this year was -0.08827211. Elizabeth Arden's return on assets of last year was -0.21098513.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Elizabeth Arden's gearing of this year was 0.43016621. Elizabeth Arden's gearing of last year was 0.35909256.
==> 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
Elizabeth Arden's current ratio of this year was 1.5868563. Elizabeth Arden's current ratio of last year was 1.96270899.
==> 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.
Elizabeth Arden's number of shares in issue this year was 29.884. Elizabeth Arden's number of shares in issue last year was 29.804.
==> 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.
Elizabeth Arden's gross margin of this year was 0.44445054. Elizabeth Arden's gross margin of last year was 0.35902865.
==> 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
Elizabeth Arden's asset turnover of this year was 1.18876595. Elizabeth Arden's asset turnover of last year was 0.91470377.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Elizabeth Arden has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Elizabeth Arden (NAS:RDEN) 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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Elizabeth Arden (Elizabeth Arden) Business Description
Elizabeth Arden Inc is incorporated on June 26, 1992 in the state of Florida. The Company is a beauty products company with a portfolio of prestige fragrance, skin care and cosmetics brands. The Company's portfolio includes Elizabeth Arden Brand, Celebrity Fragrances, Heritage Fragrances and Designer Fragrances. In addition to its owned or licensed fragrance brands, the Company distributes additional prestige fragrance brands, in the United States through distribution and other purchasing agreements. It sells its prestige beauty products to retailers in the United States and internationally, including; U.S. prestige retailers and specialty stores such as Macy's, Dillard's, Ulta, Belk, Sephora, Bloomingdales and Nordstrom; U.S. mass retailers, including mid-tier and chain drug retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl's, Walgreens, CVS, and TJ Maxx and Marshalls; and International retailers such as Boots, Debenhams, Superdrug Stores, The Perfume Shop, Hudson's Bay, Shoppers Drug Mart, Myer, Douglas and various travel retail outlets such as Nuance, Heinemann and World Duty Free. The Company and its products are subject to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission and state regulatory authorities in the United States, as well as by various other federal, local and international regulatory authorities in the countries in which its products are produced or sold.
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