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Flight Centre Travel Group Piotroski F-Score Chart
Competitive Comparison of Flight Centre Travel Group's Piotroski F-Score
For the Travel Services subindustry, Flight Centre Travel Group'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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry
For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Flight Centre Travel Group's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Flight Centre Travel Group'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.
*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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's current Net Income (TTM) was 140.
==> 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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 421.
==> 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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's return on assets of this year was 0.03147533. Flight Centre Travel Group's return on assets of last year was 0.01271701.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Flight Centre Travel Group's gearing of this year was 0.14227113. Flight Centre Travel Group's gearing of last year was 0.29855785.
==> 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
Flight Centre Travel Group's current ratio of this year was 1.08065686. Flight Centre Travel Group's current ratio of last year was 1.33688543.
==> 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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's number of shares in issue this year was 278.163. Flight Centre Travel Group's number of shares in issue last year was 210.938.
==> 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.
Flight Centre Travel Group's gross margin of this year was 0.94464. Flight Centre Travel Group's gross margin of last year was 0.95637593.
==> 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
Flight Centre Travel Group's asset turnover of this year was 0.61102054. Flight Centre Travel Group's asset turnover of last year was 0.61112777.
==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.
Evaluation
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Flight Centre Travel Group has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX:FLT) 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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Flight Centre Travel is one of the largest travel agencies in the world. The group generates just over 50% of its total transaction value, or TTV, from the corporate market, just under 50% from the leisure market, and the rest from ancillary travel-related activities. In corporate travel, Flight Centre is a global Top 4 player operating in over 100 countries, with different brands catering to various customer segments (small and midsize businesses to large enterprises). In leisure, Flight Centre operates a network of over 550 shops generating 70% of the leisure TTV, online channels generating just under 20%, and the rest from independent agents. Over half of group TTV is generated in Australia and New Zealand, 20% from Americas, just under 20% from Europe, and the rest from Asia.
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