Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Synutra International 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 Synutra International's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Synutra International Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Synutra International'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.
Synutra International's current Net Income (TTM) was 7.8.
==> 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.
Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.
Synutra International's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -31.8.
==> 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.
Synutra International's return on assets of this year was 0.01035738. Synutra International's return on assets of last year was 0.07044142.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Synutra International's gearing of this year was 0.34768206. Synutra International's gearing of last year was 0.43444686.
==> 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
Synutra International's current ratio of this year was 0.78101978. Synutra International's current ratio of last year was 1.10770301.
==> 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.
Synutra International's number of shares in issue this year was 56.691. Synutra International's number of shares in issue last year was 57.026.
==> 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.
Synutra International's gross margin of this year was 0.42929991. Synutra International's gross margin of last year was 0.49363666.
==> 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
Synutra International's asset turnover of this year was 0.46989017. Synutra International's asset turnover of last year was 0.61966537.
==> 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
Synutra International has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
Synutra International (NAS:SYUT) 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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Synutra International (Synutra International) Business Description
Synutra International Inc was formed on October 30, 1998. The Company is engaged in the production, distribution & sales of dairy based nutritional products under Shengyuan or Synutra line of brands in China. Its other nutritional product includes prepared foods, nutritional ingredients & supplements. It is focused on selling powdered formula products for infants and adults, and is also engaged in other nutritional product offerings, such as prepared foods and certain nutritional supplements. It sells the products through an extensive nationwide sales and distribution network covering all provinces and provincial-level municipalities in mainland China. It has three reportable segments; nutritional food, nutritional supplement and other business. The Nutritional Food segment includes the sale of powdered infant and adult formula products, with brands including Super, My Angel and Dutch Cow, as well as the sale of prepared foods under the Huiliduo brand; Nutritional Supplement: includes the production and sale of nutritional supplements such as chondroitin sulfate to third parties, and microencapsulated Docosahexanoic Acid ("DHA") and Arachidonic Acid ("ARA") to the nutritional food segment for use in powdered formula production; and Other Business includes non-core businesses such as ancillary sales of excess or unusable ingredients and materials to industrial customers, providing genetic diagnostic services for new born babies, and sales of cosmetics to pregnant women. Its business requires certain key raw materials, such as milk powder and whey powder. The Company competes with both multinational and domestic infant formula producers.
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