Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
API Technologies 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 API Technologies's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
API Technologies Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for API Technologies'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.
* 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.
API Technologies's current Net Income (TTM) was -24.2.
==> 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.
API Technologies's return on assets of this year was -0.09843789. API Technologies's return on assets of last year was -0.0654349.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
API Technologies's gearing of this year was 0.53438228. API Technologies's gearing of last year was 0.45306638.
==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.
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
API Technologies's current ratio of this year was 1.6050673. API Technologies's current ratio of last year was 2.44193156.
==> 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.
API Technologies's number of shares in issue this year was 55.915. API Technologies's number of shares in issue last year was 55.461.
==> 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.
API Technologies's gross margin of this year was 0.24003571. API Technologies's gross margin of last year was 0.23725152.
==> 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
API Technologies's asset turnover of this year was 0.87120774. API Technologies's asset turnover of last year was 0.79312024.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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API Technologies has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
API Technologies (FRA:AEQN) 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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API Technologies Corp was incorporated on February 2, 1999 under the laws of the State of Delaware under the name Rubicon Ventures Inc. On November 6, 2006, API changed its name to "API Nanotronics Corp," and subsequently changed its name to API Technologies Corp. on October 22, 2009. The Company through its three business segments-Systems, Subsystems & Components, Electronic Manufacturing Services and Secure Systems & Information Assurance. It designs, develops and manufactures systems, subsystems, RF and secure solutions, as well as provides electronics manufacturing and high-quality engineering services for technically demanding, high-reliability applications. Solutions areas include systems, subsystems and components which includes RF/microwave and microelectronics products, electromagnetics, power and systems solutions products, and sensors, Secure Systems and Information Assurance includes TEMPEST and emanation security, rugged communications products, encryption, and secure networking products and Electronics Manufacturing Services, which involves the production of circuit card assemblies, electromechanical assemblies, and box builds used in defense, industrial and commercial applications. The Company also operates several manufacturing facilities throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Mexico and China. Its customer base spans defense, aerospace, industrial, communications, medical, and government agencies, including the governments of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, & other countries. The Company is subject to federal contracting laws and regulations, including the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the False Claims Act.
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