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Eastern Platinum (JSE:EPS) Piotroski F-Score : 8 (As of Jun. 23, 2024)


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What is Eastern Platinum Piotroski F-Score?

Good Sign:

Piotroski F-Score is 8, indicates a very healthy situation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Eastern Platinum has an F-score of 8. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.

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

JSE:EPS' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 4   Max: 8
Current: 8

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Eastern Platinum was 8. The lowest was 3. And the median was 4.


Eastern Platinum Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Eastern Platinum'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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Eastern Platinum Piotroski F-Score Chart

Eastern Platinum Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 4.00 7.00 3.00 8.00

Eastern Platinum Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.00 6.00 8.00 8.00 8.00

Competitive Comparison of Eastern Platinum's Piotroski F-Score

For the Other Precious Metals & Mining subindustry, Eastern Platinum'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.


Eastern Platinum's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Eastern Platinum's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Eastern Platinum'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 (Mar24) TTM:Last Year (Mar23) TTM:
Net Income was 143.641 + 59.306 + 30.278 + -17.378 = R216 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 71.493 + 141.01 + 82.171 + 40.56 = R335 Mil.
Revenue was 686.734 + 413.604 + 492.707 + 296.08 = R1,889 Mil.
Gross Profit was 248.556 + 132.722 + 113.176 + 99.667 = R594 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar23)
to the end of this year (Mar24) was
(2779.589 + 2984.959 + 3000.962 + 2995.595 + 2956.259) / 5 = R2943.4728 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar23) was R2,780 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was R1 Mil.
Total Current Assets was R982 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was R1,297 Mil.
Net Income was 19.167 + -116.184 + 24.987 + -6.446 = R-78 Mil.

Revenue was 324.005 + 63.213 + 214.203 + 329.347 = R931 Mil.
Gross Profit was 65.693 + 33.173 + -31.139 + 64.566 = R132 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar22)
to the end of last year (Mar23) was
(2656.636 + 2524.563 + 2822.627 + 2647.037 + 2779.589) / 5 = R2686.0904 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar22) was R2,657 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was R1 Mil.
Total Current Assets was R734 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was R1,376 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.

Eastern Platinum's current Net Income (TTM) was 216. ==> 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.

Eastern Platinum's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 335. ==> 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 (Mar23)
=215.847/2779.589
=0.07765429

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar22)
=-78.476/2656.636
=-0.02953961

Eastern Platinum's return on assets of this year was 0.07765429. Eastern Platinum's return on assets of last year was -0.02953961. ==> 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.

Eastern Platinum's current Net Income (TTM) was 216. Eastern Platinum's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 335. ==> 335 > 216 ==> 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: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=1.074/2943.4728
=0.00036488

Gearing (Last Year: Mar23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar22 to Mar23
=1.351/2686.0904
=0.00050296

Eastern Platinum's gearing of this year was 0.00036488. Eastern Platinum's gearing of last year was 0.00050296. ==> 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

Current Ratio (This Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=981.65/1296.71
=0.75703126

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=733.667/1375.616
=0.53333706

Eastern Platinum's current ratio of this year was 0.75703126. Eastern Platinum's current ratio of last year was 0.53333706. ==> 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.

Eastern Platinum's number of shares in issue this year was 201.901. Eastern Platinum's number of shares in issue last year was 137.821. ==> 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
=594.121/1889.125
=0.31449534

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=132.293/930.768
=0.14213316

Eastern Platinum's gross margin of this year was 0.31449534. Eastern Platinum's gross margin of last year was 0.14213316. ==> 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 (Mar23)
=1889.125/2779.589
=0.67964185

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar22)
=930.768/2656.636
=0.35035586

Eastern Platinum's asset turnover of this year was 0.67964185. Eastern Platinum's asset turnover of last year was 0.35035586. ==> 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+1+1+0+1+1
=8

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

Eastern Platinum has an F-score of 8. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.

Eastern Platinum  (JSE:EPS) 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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Eastern Platinum (JSE:EPS) Business Description

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Address
1188 West Georgia Street, Suite 1080, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 4A2
Eastern Platinum Ltd owns, directly and indirectly, a number of PGM and chrome assets in the Republic of South Africa. All of the company's properties are situated on the western and eastern limbs of the Bushveld Complex, the geological environment that hosts approximately 80% of the world's PGM-bearing ore. It has three segments CRM, Eastern Limb and Corporate. Operations at the Crocodile River Mine include re-mining and processing its tailings resource, with an offtake of the chrome concentrate to Union Goal from the Zandfontein UG2 tailings facility and the processing and extraction of platinum group metals.

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