Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Furmanite has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
The historical rank and industry rank for Furmanite's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Furmanite Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Furmanite'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.
Furmanite's current Net Income (TTM) was 8.6.
==> 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.
Furmanite's return on assets of this year was 0.02968254. Furmanite's return on assets of last year was 0.03279598.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Furmanite's current ratio of this year was 4.30092497. Furmanite's current ratio of last year was 3.25070961.
==> 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.
Furmanite's number of shares in issue this year was 37.979. Furmanite's number of shares in issue last year was 37.905.
==> 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.
Furmanite's gross margin of this year was 0.22708471. Furmanite's gross margin of last year was 0.25154218.
==> 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
Furmanite's asset turnover of this year was 1.96758617. Furmanite's asset turnover of last year was 1.77700024.
==> 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
Furmanite has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
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.
Furmanite Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Furmanite Corp was incorporated in Delaware on January 23, 1953. It provides specialized technical services. The Company together with its subsidiaries conducts business under two operating segments; Technical Services and Engineering & Project Solutions. Technical Services provides specialized technical services, including on-line, off-line and other services. On-line services include leak sealing, hot tapping, line stopping, line isolation, composite repair, valve testing and certain non-destructive testing and inspection services, while off-line services include on-site machining, heat treatment, bolting, valve repair and other non-destructive testing and inspection services. Other services include smart shim services, concrete repair, engineering services, valves and other products and manufacturing. These services and products are provided mainly to electric power generating plants, the petroleum industry, which includes refineries and off-shore drilling rigs, chemical plants and other process industries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent Company, Furmanite Worldwide, Inc. and its domestic and international subsidiaries and affiliates. The Engineering & Project Solutions operating segment, which includes Furmanite Technical Solutions, provides project planning, professional engineering, downstream non-destructive testing and inspection, construction management, mechanical integrity, field support, quality assurance and plant asset management services, as well as certain other inspection and project management services. Customers include refining and petrochemical operators as well as maintenance, and engineering and construction contractors servicing the downstream and midstream oil and gas markets, all of which are in the Americas. The Company currently operates over 30 offices in the United States. The Company competes against large and well established national and international companies as well as regional and local companies. It also competes with the in-house maintenance departments of customers or potential customers. Many aspects of the Company's operations are subject to governmental regulation.
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