Gifa (GIFX) Piotroski F-Score

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What is Gifa Piotroski F-Score?

Gifa does not have enough data to calculate Piotroski F-Score.

Gifa  (OTCPK:GIFX) 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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Gifa Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

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Gifa Business Description

Address Dr Fazil Kucuk Boulevard, Hamitkoy Junction, Northern Cyprus, Mersin 10, Lefkosa, TUR, 99010
Gifa Inc offers a range of comprehensive products and services, including, but not limited to, the following. It includes Financial services and consultancy, brokerage, business loans, project funding, crowdfunding advice and consultancy to private clients (individual and corporate clients), Personal and professional business development and investment advice to private clients, End-to-End Supply and Demand Chain Management, which includes controlling and coordinating the supply of materials to a wide range of entities that are globally involved in producing and delivering goods and services. It is also engaged in the media industry through Yeni Bakis Newspaper and WebTV, and various activities of the transport, travel, and tourism industries.