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Scholar Education Group (HKSE:01769) Piotroski F-Score : 6 (As of Dec. 12, 2024)


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What is Scholar Education Group 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

Scholar Education Group has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

The historical rank and industry rank for Scholar Education Group's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

HKSE:01769' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 6   Max: 8
Current: 6

During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Scholar Education Group was 8. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.


Scholar Education Group Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Scholar Education Group'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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Scholar Education Group Piotroski F-Score Chart

Scholar Education Group Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
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Scholar Education Group Semi-Annual Data
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Competitive Comparison of Scholar Education Group's Piotroski F-Score

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Scholar Education Group'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.


Scholar Education Group's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Scholar Education Group's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Scholar Education Group's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


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 (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was HK$94.1 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was HK$224.5 Mil.
Revenue was HK$624.1 Mil.
Gross Profit was HK$260.9 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was (843.036 + 1130.109) / 2 = HK$986.5725 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was HK$843.0 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was HK$135.8 Mil.
Total Current Assets was HK$543.7 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was HK$493.0 Mil.
Net Income was HK$60.8 Mil.

Revenue was HK$449.0 Mil.
Gross Profit was HK$154.9 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was (931.291 + 843.036) / 2 = HK$887.1635 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was HK$931.3 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was HK$92.4 Mil.
Total Current Assets was HK$483.1 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was HK$335.9 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.

Scholar Education Group's current Net Income (TTM) was 94.1. ==> 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.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Scholar Education Group's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 224.5. ==> 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.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=94.052/843.036
=0.11156344

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=60.762/931.291
=0.06524491

Scholar Education Group's return on assets of this year was 0.11156344. Scholar Education Group's return on assets of last year was 0.06524491. ==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.

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.

Scholar Education Group's current Net Income (TTM) was 94.1. Scholar Education Group's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 224.5. ==> 224.5 > 94.1 ==> 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: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=135.832/986.5725
=0.13768071

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=92.424/887.1635
=0.10417922

Scholar Education Group's gearing of this year was 0.13768071. Scholar Education Group's gearing of last year was 0.10417922. ==> 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

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=543.723/493.024
=1.10283272

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=483.128/335.862
=1.43847175

Scholar Education Group's current ratio of this year was 1.10283272. Scholar Education Group's current ratio of last year was 1.43847175. ==> 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.

Scholar Education Group's number of shares in issue this year was 557.686. Scholar Education Group's number of shares in issue last year was 555.7. ==> 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
=260.922/624.126
=0.41805981

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=154.879/449.011
=0.34493364

Scholar Education Group's gross margin of this year was 0.41805981. Scholar Education Group's gross margin of last year was 0.34493364. ==> 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

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec22)
=624.126/843.036
=0.74033137

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=449.011/931.291
=0.48213824

Scholar Education Group's asset turnover of this year was 0.74033137. Scholar Education Group's asset turnover of last year was 0.48213824. ==> 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
=1+1+1+1+0+0+0+1+1
=6

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

Scholar Education Group has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Scholar Education Group  (HKSE:01769) 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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Scholar Education Group Business Description

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Address
29 Youyi Road, Rooms 401-410, 4th Floor, Yunfeng Garden, Jianan Community, Nanhu Street, Luohu District, Shenzhen, CHN, 518049
Scholar Education Group is a China-based investment holding company. The Company is principally engaged in the provision of after school education services through academic preparation program and early primary education program. The academic preparation program is delivered under Sheng Xue brand, and the early primary education program is delivered under Le Xue brand. The Company principally conducts its businesses in Guangdong, China.
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