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Ault Alliance (Ault Alliance) Piotroski F-Score : 3 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)


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What is Ault Alliance Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 3 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Ault Alliance 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 Ault Alliance's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

AULT' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 4   Max: 6
Current: 3

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Ault Alliance was 6. The lowest was 2. And the median was 4.


Ault Alliance Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ault Alliance'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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Ault Alliance Piotroski F-Score Chart

Ault Alliance Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
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Ault Alliance Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Ault Alliance's Piotroski F-Score

For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, Ault Alliance'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.


Ault Alliance's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry

For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, Ault Alliance's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ault Alliance'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 -48.646 + -60.683 + -21.771 + -99.926 = $-231.0 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 7.703 + 5.21 + -15.071 + -3.27 = $-5.4 Mil.
Revenue was 31.186 + 47.408 + 47.963 + 36.514 = $163.1 Mil.
Gross Profit was 2.04 + 17.885 + 9.668 + 2.285 = $31.9 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(561.514 + 526.907 + 378.39 + 378.456 + 299.19) / 5 = $428.8914 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $561.5 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $32.0 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $138.5 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $204.8 Mil.
Net Income was -28.772 + -25.764 + -7.271 + -120.009 = $-181.8 Mil.

Revenue was 32.826 + 17.366 + 44.265 + 30.476 = $124.9 Mil.
Gross Profit was 22.332 + 4.997 + 18.817 + 6.711 = $52.9 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(490.286 + 518.924 + 596.271 + 610.905 + 561.514) / 5 = $555.58 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $490.3 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $47.1 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $196.3 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $225.3 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.

Ault Alliance's current Net Income (TTM) was -231.0. ==> 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.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Ault Alliance's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -5.4. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

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)
=-231.026/561.514
=-0.41143409

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=-181.816/490.286
=-0.37083661

Ault Alliance's return on assets of this year was -0.41143409. Ault Alliance's return on assets of last year was -0.37083661. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

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.

Ault Alliance's current Net Income (TTM) was -231.0. Ault Alliance's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -5.4. ==> -5.4 > -231.0 ==> 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
=32.013/428.8914
=0.07464127

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=47.118/555.58
=0.08480867

Ault Alliance's gearing of this year was 0.07464127. Ault Alliance's gearing of last year was 0.08480867. ==> 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: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=138.485/204.827
=0.67610715

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=196.309/225.325
=0.87122601

Ault Alliance's current ratio of this year was 0.67610715. Ault Alliance's current ratio of last year was 0.87122601. ==> 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.

Ault Alliance's number of shares in issue this year was 4.483. Ault Alliance's number of shares in issue last year was 0.051. ==> 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
=31.878/163.071
=0.1954854

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=52.857/124.933
=0.42308277

Ault Alliance's gross margin of this year was 0.1954854. Ault Alliance's gross margin of last year was 0.42308277. ==> 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

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec22)
=163.071/561.514
=0.29041306

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=124.933/490.286
=0.25481658

Ault Alliance's asset turnover of this year was 0.29041306. Ault Alliance's asset turnover of last year was 0.25481658. ==> 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
=0+0+0+1+1+0+0+0+1
=3

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

Ault Alliance has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Ault Alliance  (AMEX:AULT) 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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Ault Alliance (Ault Alliance) Business Description

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Address
11411 Southern Highlands Parkway, Suite 240, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 89141
Ault Alliance Inc is a diversified holding company. It operates a data center at which it mines Bitcoin and provides mission-critical products that support a diverse range of industries, including oil exploration, crane services, defense/aerospace, industrial, automotive, medical/biopharma, consumer electronics, hotel operations and textiles. The company has eight reportable segments: Energy and Infrastructure; Technology and Finance; The Singing Machine Company, Inc; BitNile, Inc; Giga-tronics Incorporated; Imperalis Holding Corp., also referred to as TurnOnGreen; Ault Real Estate Equities, Inc and Ault Disruptive Technologies Corporation.
Executives
Ault Milton C Iii director 11411 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PARKWAY, SUITE 240, LAS VEGAS NV 89141
Howard Ash director 4233 SHERIDAN AVE, MIAMI BEACH FL 33140
Robert O Smith 10 percent owner DIGITAL POWER CORPORATION, 41920 CHRISTY STREET, FREMONT CA 94538
Ault & Company, Inc. director, officer: See Remark 11411 SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PARKWAY, SUITE 240, LAS VEGAS NV 89141
William B. Horne director C/O AULT ALLIANCE, INC., 940 SOUTH COAST DRIVE, SUITE 200, COSTA MESA CA 92626
Glen E Tellock director 1725 SHEPHERD ROAD, CHATTANOOGA TN 37421
Kenneth S Cragun officer: See Remarks 3775 CHIPPEWA CIRCLE, CORONA CA 92881
Jodi Brichan director C/O DPW HOLDINGS, INC., 201 SHIPYARD WAY, SUITE E, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92663
Ding Gu 10 percent owner 208 LAUREL CREEK BLVD., MOORESTOWN NJ 08057
Henry Carl Nisser officer: Executive VP & General Counsel 100 PARK AVENUE, SUITE 1658A, NEW YORK NY 10017
Kristine L Ault director, 10 percent owner P.O. BOX 3587, TUSTIN CA 92781
Jeffrey Allen Bentz director 107 E BONITA WAY, TEMPE AZ 85281
Philou Ventures, Llc 10 percent owner P.O. BOX 3587, TUSTIN CA 92781
Mordechai Rosenberg director 1 BROSH STREET, KFAR SABA L3 4438240
Amos Kohn director 48430 LAKEVIEW BLVD., C/O DIGITAL POWER CORP, FREMONT CA 94538