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Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund Piotroski F-Score Chart
* 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.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's current Net Income (TTM) was -4.09.
==> 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.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 6.73.
==> Positive ==> Score 1.
Question 3. Change in Return on Assets
Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's return on assets of this year was -0.04038619. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's return on assets of last year was -0.2306249.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's gearing of this year was 0. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund'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
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's current ratio of this year was 21.43116027. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's current ratio of last year was 26.3963751.
==> 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.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's number of shares in issue this year was 9.047. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's number of shares in issue last year was 9.047.
==> 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.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's gross margin of this year was -2.9566787. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's gross margin of last year was -9.60992908.
==> 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
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's asset turnover of this year was 0.00273453. Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund's asset turnover of last year was 0.00087892.
==> 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
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund (AMEX:CFD) 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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Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund (Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund) Business Description
Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund was organized as a Delaware statutory trust on December 7, 2005, to operate as a commodity pool. The Fund commenced operations on September 27, 2010, with its initial public offering. Prior to the initial public offering, the Fund was inactive except for matters relating to its organization and registration. The Fund's investment objective is to generate higher risk-adjusted total return than commodity market benchmarks. In pursuing its investment objective, the Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of commodity futures and forward contracts to obtain broad exposure to all principal groups in the commodity markets.
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