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SPTN (SpartanNash Co) Piotroski F-Score : N/A (As of Jul. 12, 2025)


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What is SpartanNash Co 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

SpartanNash Co has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

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

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of SpartanNash Co was 9. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.


SpartanNash Co Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for SpartanNash Co'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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SpartanNash Co Piotroski F-Score Chart

SpartanNash Co Annual Data
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Piotroski F-Score
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SpartanNash Co Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of SpartanNash Co's Piotroski F-Score

For the Food Distribution subindustry, SpartanNash Co'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.


SpartanNash Co's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, SpartanNash Co's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SpartanNash Co's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


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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 (Mar25) TTM:Last Year (Mar24) TTM:
Net Income was 11.489 + 10.92 + -35.081 + 2.08 = $-11 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 95.635 + -8.843 + 82.622 + 25.828 = $195 Mil.
Revenue was 2230.756 + 2250.681 + 2261.624 + 2909.624 = $9,653 Mil.
Gross Profit was 353.003 + 354.649 + 364.502 + 481.494 = $1,554 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar24)
to the end of this year (Mar25) was
(0 + 2365.884 + 2467.433 + 2602.296 + 2580.576) / 5 = $2504.04725 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar24) was $0 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,052 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $1,099 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $663 Mil.
Net Income was 19.468 + 11.127 + 10.305 + 12.971 = $54 Mil.

Revenue was 2312.394 + 2264.248 + 2245.183 + 2806.263 = $9,628 Mil.
Gross Profit was 352.382 + 347.539 + 338.969 + 440.344 = $1,479 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar23)
to the end of last year (Mar24) was
(0 + 2326.911 + 2333.776 + 2355.575 + 0) / 5 = $2338.754 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar23) was $0 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $0 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.

SpartanNash Co's current Net Income (TTM) was -11. ==> 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.

SpartanNash Co's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 195. ==> 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 (Mar24)
=-10.592/0
=

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar23)
=53.871/0
=

SpartanNash Co's return on assets of this year was . SpartanNash Co's return on assets of last year was . ==> 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.

SpartanNash Co's current Net Income (TTM) was -11. SpartanNash Co's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 195. ==> 195 > -11 ==> 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: Mar25)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar24 to Mar25
=1052.457/2504.04725
=0.42030237

Gearing (Last Year: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=0/2338.754
=0

SpartanNash Co's gearing of this year was 0.42030237. SpartanNash Co's gearing of last year was 0. ==> 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: Mar25)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=1098.616/662.597
=1.65804554

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=0/0
=

SpartanNash Co's current ratio of this year was 1.65804554. SpartanNash Co's current ratio of last year was . ==> 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.

SpartanNash Co's number of shares in issue this year was 33.905. SpartanNash Co's number of shares in issue last year was 34.376. ==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.

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
=1553.648/9652.685
=0.16095501

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=1479.234/9628.088
=0.15363736

SpartanNash Co's gross margin of this year was 0.16095501. SpartanNash Co's gross margin of last year was 0.15363736. ==> 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 (Mar24)
=9652.685/0
=

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar23)
=9628.088/0
=

SpartanNash Co's asset turnover of this year was . SpartanNash Co's asset turnover of last year was . ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=0+1+0+1+0+1+1+1+0
=5

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

SpartanNash Co has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

SpartanNash Co  (NAS:SPTN) 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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SpartanNash Co Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
850 76th Street SW, P.O. Box 8700, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 49518-8700
SpartanNash Co is a food solutions company that delivers the ingredients. Its principal business activities include, distributing grocery products to a diverse group of independent and chain retailers, its corporate-owned retail stores, and U.S. military commissaries and exchanges; as well as operating a fresh produce distribution network and the Our Family private label brand. The company operates in two segments: Retail and Wholesale. Majority of the revenue is earned from its Wholesale segment which uses a multi-channel sales approach to distribute national brand and private brand products to independent retailers, national accounts, food service distributors, e-commerce providers, and the Company's corporate owned retail stores.
Executives
Kerrie D. Macpherson director 5790 WIDEWATERS PARKWAY, C/O COMMUNITY BANK SYSTEM INC., DEWITT NY 13214
William R Voss director C/O SPARTANNASH, 850 76TH SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Hawthorne L. Proctor director C/O SPARTANNASH, 850 76TH SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Bennett John Morgan officer: SVP and Chief Mdsing Officer 850 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Matthew Mannelly director C/O SPARTANNASH, 850 76TH SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Yvonne Trupiano officer: Sr. VP Chief HR Officer 850 76TH STREET SW, PO BOX 8700, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Pamela Puryear director 253 DOLPHIN COVE QUAY, STAMFORD CT 06902
Julien Mininberg director ONE HELEN OF TROY PLAZA, EL PASO TX 79912
Jaymin B Patel director C/O GTECH HOLDINGS CORPORATION, 55 TECHNOLOGY WAY, WEST GREENWICH RI 02817
Frank Gambino director C/O 850 - 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Ileana Mcalary officer: SVP CLO and Secretary 850 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Kathleen M Mahoney officer: Exec VP Gen Counsel and Secy C/O SPARTANNASH, 850 76TH SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Robert Todd Riksen officer: VP, Corporate Controller 850 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Masiar Tayebi officer: E.V.P., Chief Strategy Officer 850 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
David J Petko officer: Senior VP Supply Chain 850 76TH STREET SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518