Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Paya Holdings has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
The historical rank and industry rank for Paya Holdings's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
During the past 4 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Paya Holdings was 9999. The lowest was 6. And the median was 6.
Paya Holdings Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Paya Holdings'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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Paya Holdings Annual Data
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Paya Holdings Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Paya Holdings'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.
Paya Holdings Piotroski F-Score Distribution
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Paya Holdings's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Paya Holdings'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.
*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.
Paya Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was 5.2.
==> 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.
Paya Holdings's return on assets of this year was 0.00822057. Paya Holdings's return on assets of last year was .
==> 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.
Paya Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was 5.2. Paya Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 41.8.
==> 41.8 > 5.2 ==> 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.
Paya Holdings's gearing of this year was 0.38191124. Paya Holdings's gearing of last year was 0.43183303.
==> 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
Paya Holdings's current ratio of this year was 2.16219066. Paya Holdings's current ratio of last year was 2.21383798.
==> 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.
Paya Holdings's number of shares in issue this year was 126.616. Paya Holdings's number of shares in issue last year was 0.
==> 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.
Paya Holdings's gross margin of this year was 0.5164109. Paya Holdings's gross margin of last year was 0.51548247.
==> 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
Paya Holdings's asset turnover of this year was 0.42825096. Paya Holdings's asset turnover of last year was .
==> 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
Paya Holdings has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
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.
Paya Holdings Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Paya Holdings Inc is a provider of integrated payment and frictionless commerce solutions that help customers accept and make payments, expedite receipt of money, and increase operating efficiencies. Its operating segment includes Integrated Solutions and Payment Services. The company generates maximum revenue from the Integrated Solutions segment. Integrated Solutions segment represents the delivery of credit and debit card payment solutions, and to a lesser extent, ACH processing solutions to customers via integrations with software partners across strategic vertical markets. Integrated Solutions partners also include vertical focused front-end Customer Relationship Management software providers as well as back-end Enterprise Resource Planning and accounting solutions.
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