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ZBAI (ATIF Holdings) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of Jun. 29, 2025)


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What is ATIF Holdings Piotroski F-Score?

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

ATIF Holdings 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 ATIF Holdings's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

ZBAI' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 4   Max: 5
Current: 4

During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of ATIF Holdings was 5. The lowest was 2. And the median was 4.


ATIF Holdings Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for ATIF Holdings'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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ATIF Holdings Piotroski F-Score Chart

ATIF Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23 Jul24
Piotroski F-Score
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ATIF Holdings Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of ATIF Holdings's Piotroski F-Score

For the Capital Markets subindustry, ATIF Holdings'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.


ATIF Holdings's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, ATIF Holdings's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where ATIF Holdings's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


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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 (Apr25) TTM:Last Year (Apr24) TTM:
Net Income was -1.351 + -0.367 + -1.903 + -1.589 = $-5.21 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -0.036 + -0.801 + -0.395 + -0.939 = $-2.17 Mil.
Revenue was 0.27 + 0 + 0.2 + 0.25 = $0.72 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.27 + 0 + 0.2 + 0.25 = $0.72 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Apr24)
to the end of this year (Apr25) was
(3.333 + 3.013 + 5.885 + 8.64 + 8.688) / 5 = $5.9118 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Apr24) was $3.33 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $8.69 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $0.28 Mil.
Net Income was -3.245 + -0.625 + -0.408 + -0.808 = $-5.09 Mil.

Revenue was 0.15 + 0.125 + 0.025 + 0.2 = $0.50 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.15 + 0.125 + 0.025 + 0.2 = $0.50 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Apr23)
to the end of last year (Apr24) was
(8.168 + 3.769 + 3.041 + 2.489 + 3.333) / 5 = $4.16 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Apr23) was $8.17 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.03 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $3.19 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $0.20 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.

ATIF Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -5.21. ==> 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.

ATIF Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -2.17. ==> 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 (Apr24)
=-5.21/3.333
=-1.56315632

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Apr23)
=-5.086/8.168
=-0.62267385

ATIF Holdings's return on assets of this year was -1.56315632. ATIF Holdings's return on assets of last year was -0.62267385. ==> 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.

ATIF Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -5.21. ATIF Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -2.17. ==> -2.17 > -5.21 ==> 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: Apr25)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Apr24 to Apr25
=0/5.9118
=0

Gearing (Last Year: Apr24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Apr23 to Apr24
=0.029/4.16
=0.00697115

ATIF Holdings's gearing of this year was 0. ATIF Holdings's gearing of last year was 0.00697115. ==> 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: Apr25)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=8.688/0.278
=31.25179856

Current Ratio (Last Year: Apr24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=3.189/0.2
=15.945

ATIF Holdings's current ratio of this year was 31.25179856. ATIF Holdings's current ratio of last year was 15.945. ==> 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.

ATIF Holdings's number of shares in issue this year was 17.246. ATIF Holdings's number of shares in issue last year was 9.799. ==> 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
=0.72/0.72
=1

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=0.5/0.5
=1

ATIF Holdings's gross margin of this year was 1. ATIF Holdings's gross margin of last year was 1. ==> 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 (Apr24)
=0.72/3.333
=0.2160216

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Apr23)
=0.5/8.168
=0.0612145

ATIF Holdings's asset turnover of this year was 0.2160216. ATIF Holdings's asset turnover of last year was 0.0612145. ==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.

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+1
=4

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

ATIF Holdings has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

ATIF Holdings  (NAS:ZBAI) 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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ATIF Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
25391 Commercentre Drive, Suite 200, Lake Forest, CA, USA, 92630
ATIF Holdings Ltd is a consulting company. It provides financial and advisory services to small and medium-sized enterprises and also to individual customers and families. The firm also offers Pre-IPO's, and Post-IPO's services. It operates in one operating segment which is the consulting service business. It generates the majority of its revenue from the USA.
Executives
Liu Kwong Sang director 1003 10/F RIGHTFUL CENTER, 12 TAK HING STREET TSIM SHA TSUI, KOWLOON K3 00000
Jun Liu director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer ROOM 3803 DACHONG INT'L CENTRE, 39 TONGGU RD, NANSHAN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN F4 518000
Lei Yang director ROOM 2803, DACHONG BUSINESS CENTRE, DACHONG 1ST ROAD, NANSHAN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN F4 518000
Yongyuan Chen director ROOM 2803, DACHONG BUSINESS CENTRE, DACHONG 1ST ROAD, NANSHAN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN F4 518000
Yue Ming director, officer: Chief Financial Officer ROOM 2803, DACHONG BUSINESS CENTRE, DACHONG 1ST ROAD, NANSHAN DISTRICT, SHENZHEN F4 518000
Tianzhen Investments Ltd 10 percent owner 25391 COMMERCENTRE DR., STE 200, LAKE FOREST CA 92630