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Vicapsys Life Sciences (Vicapsys Life Sciences) Piotroski F-Score : 3 (As of May. 26, 2024)


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What is Vicapsys Life Sciences Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 3 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Vicapsys Life Sciences 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 Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

VICP' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 2   Max: 3
Current: 3

During the past 6 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Vicapsys Life Sciences was 3. The lowest was 2. And the median was 2.


Vicapsys Life Sciences Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Vicapsys Life Sciences'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.

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Vicapsys Life Sciences Piotroski F-Score Chart

Vicapsys Life Sciences Annual Data
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Vicapsys Life Sciences Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Vicapsys Life Sciences's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

* 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.

This Year (Sep23) TTM:Last Year (Sep22) TTM:
Net Income was -0.493 + -0.211 + -0.136 + -0.24 = $-1.08 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 0.003 + -0.01 + -0.218 + -0.107 = $-0.33 Mil.
Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Sep22)
to the end of this year (Sep23) was
(0.384 + 0.072 + 0.063 + 0.378 + 0.208) / 5 = $0.221 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Sep22) was $0.38 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.21 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1.54 Mil.
Net Income was -0.104 + -0.167 + -0.18 + -0.145 = $-0.60 Mil.

Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Sep21)
to the end of last year (Sep22) was
(0.552 + 0.594 + 0.478 + 0.382 + 0.384) / 5 = $0.478 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Sep21) was $0.55 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.04 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $0.90 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.

Vicapsys Life Sciences's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.08. ==> 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.

Vicapsys Life Sciences's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -0.33. ==> 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 (Sep22)
=-1.08/0.384
=-2.8125

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Sep21)
=-0.596/0.552
=-1.07971014

Vicapsys Life Sciences's return on assets of this year was -2.8125. Vicapsys Life Sciences's return on assets of last year was -1.07971014. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

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.

Vicapsys Life Sciences's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.08. Vicapsys Life Sciences's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -0.33. ==> -0.33 > -1.08 ==> 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: Sep23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep22 to Sep23
=0/0.221
=0

Gearing (Last Year: Sep22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep21 to Sep22
=0/0.478
=0

Vicapsys Life Sciences's gearing of this year was 0. Vicapsys Life Sciences'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: Sep23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=0.208/1.542
=0.13488975

Current Ratio (Last Year: Sep22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=0.036/0.904
=0.03982301

Vicapsys Life Sciences's current ratio of this year was 0.13488975. Vicapsys Life Sciences's current ratio of last year was 0.03982301. ==> 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.

Vicapsys Life Sciences's number of shares in issue this year was 34.405. Vicapsys Life Sciences's number of shares in issue last year was 31.188. ==> 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
=0/0
=

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=0/0
=

Vicapsys Life Sciences's gross margin of this year was . Vicapsys Life Sciences's gross margin of last year was . ==> 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 (Sep22)
=0/0.384
=0

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Sep21)
=0/0.552
=0

Vicapsys Life Sciences's asset turnover of this year was 0. Vicapsys Life Sciences's asset turnover of last year was 0. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=0+0+0+1+1+1+0+0+0
=3

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

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

Vicapsys Life Sciences  (OTCPK:VICP) 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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Vicapsys Life Sciences (Vicapsys Life Sciences) Business Description

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Address
7778 Mcginnis Ferry Road, Suite 270, Suwanee, GA, USA, 30024
Vicapsys Life Sciences Inc is a biotech company that is engaged in commercializing implantable medical products that incorporate VICAPSYN, inducing a zone of immuno-protection around devices and cells implanted in the human body. The product name VICAPSYN is the company's line of proprietary product candidates that is applied to transplantation therapies and related stem-cell applications in the transplantation field.
Executives
Moore Bobby M Jr 10 percent owner 4125 S.B. MERRION ROAD, LAKELAND FL 33810
Robert Grammen 10 percent owner 9180 GALLENA COURT, NAPLES FL 34109
Michael Yurkowski director 1505 ELM STREET, #1504, DALLAS TX 75201
William P. Esping 10 percent owner 2828 ROUTH STREET, SUITE 500, DALLAS TX 75201
Rodger Rees director C/O BONDS.COM GROUP, INC., 1515 SOUTH FEDERAL HIGHWAY, SUITE 212, BOCA RATON FL 33432
Mark Feldmesser director 641 UNIVERSITY BLVE, JUPITER FL 33458
Federico Pier director 1004 PLUM DRIVE, IRVING TX 75063
Ryan Seddon director, 10 percent owner 8120 BELVEDERE ROAD, SUITE 4, WEST PALM BEACH FL 33411

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