* 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s current Net Income (TTM) was -2.34.
==> 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1.24.
==> 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s return on assets of this year was -0.06576544. SoundBite Communications,'s return on assets of last year was -0.0061469.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
SoundBite Communications,'s gearing of this year was 0. SoundBite Communications,'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
SoundBite Communications,'s current ratio of this year was 4.66185518. SoundBite Communications,'s current ratio of last year was 6.73592284.
==> 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s number of shares in issue this year was 16.501. SoundBite Communications,'s number of shares in issue last year was 16.436.
==> 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.
SoundBite Communications,'s gross margin of this year was 0.60490529. SoundBite Communications,'s gross margin of last year was 0.5955809.
==> 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
SoundBite Communications,'s asset turnover of this year was 1.05193783. SoundBite Communications,'s asset turnover of last year was 1.00633507.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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SoundBite Communications, has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
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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SoundBite Communications, (FRA:4S9) Business Description
SoundBite Communications, Inc. was founded in Delaware in April 2000. The Company provides an on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communications service that enables organizations to design, execute and measure communication campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payment and collection processes. Clients use its SoundBite Engage platform to communicate with their customers through voice, text and email messages that are relevant, timely, personalized and engaging. Its service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single customer communications platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. Clients use the SoundBite Engage platform to create and manage campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payments and collections processes. A campaign is a series of communications with a targeted group of customers, typically for a defined period of time. The targeted group is identified by a contact list containing customer-specific attributes, including first and last names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other information specific to the campaign. The Company's service is provided using a multi-tenant architecture, which enables a single PCC platform to serve all of its clients cost-effectively. To use its service, an organization does not need to invest in or maintain new hardware or to hire and manage dedicated information technology staff. The Company's Client Management organization helps clients select service features and adopt best practices that would enable the clients to use its multi-channel PCC platform effectively. The organization provides varying levels of support, such as managing entire campaigns, providing optimization recommendations and supporting self-service clients. It offers a range of services that includes script development, campaign strategy, professional voice talent recording, custom reporting and detailed analysis of campaign results. The Company serves its clients from three third-party hosting facilities, which are located in Ashburn, Virginia; Somerville, Massachusetts; and Toronto, Ontario. The Company's business operations are affected, directly or indirectly, by a range of U.S. federal and state laws and regulations that restrict customer communications activities using its service, its handling of information and other aspects of its business.
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