What is Northern Tier Energy LP 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
Northern Tier Energy LP has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Northern Tier Energy LP's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Northern Tier Energy LP Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Northern Tier Energy LP'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.
* 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.
Northern Tier Energy LP's current Net Income (TTM) was 235.
==> 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.
Northern Tier Energy LP's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 330.
==> 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.
Northern Tier Energy LP's return on assets of this year was 0.19571023. Northern Tier Energy LP's return on assets of last year was 0.23581189.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Northern Tier Energy LP's gearing of this year was 0.3138976. Northern Tier Energy LP's gearing of last year was 0.29907267.
==> 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
Northern Tier Energy LP's current ratio of this year was 1.37638776. Northern Tier Energy LP's current ratio of last year was 1.82160879.
==> 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.
Northern Tier Energy LP's number of shares in issue this year was 93.087. Northern Tier Energy LP's number of shares in issue last year was 92.601.
==> 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.
Northern Tier Energy LP's gross margin of this year was 0.12364722. Northern Tier Energy LP's gross margin of last year was 0.09107625.
==> 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
Northern Tier Energy LP's asset turnover of this year was 2.6836922. Northern Tier Energy LP's asset turnover of last year was 4.1944002.
==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Northern Tier Energy LP has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Northern Tier Energy LP (NYSE:NTI) 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.
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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Northern Tier Energy LP (Northern Tier Energy LP) Business Description
Northern Tier Energy LP was incorporated on October 21, 2011. Its an independent downstream energy limited partnership with refining, retail and pipeline operations that serves the PADD II region of the United States. The Company operate its assets in two business segments: the refining business and the retail business. Its refining segment consists of an 89,500 barrels per calendar day (96,500 barrels per stream day) refinery located in St. Paul Park, Minnesota. Its refinery's complexity allows to process a variety of light, heavy, sweet and sour crudes into higher value refined products. Its retail segment operated 164 convenience stores under the SuperAmerica brand and also supported 75 franchised convenience stores, which are also operated under the SuperAmerica brand. These convenience stores are located in Minnesota and Wisconsin and sell various grades of gasoline and diesel, tobacco products and immediately consumable items such as beverages, prepared food and a large variety of snacks and prepackaged items. It also own and operate SuperMom's Bakery, which prepares and distributes baked goods and other prepared food items for sale in its company-operated and franchised convenience stores and other third party locations. Crude oil is the principal raw material for the Company and the majority of the crude oil processed is delivered to the refinery through a pipeline that is owned by MPL, a related party. With respect to its wholesale gasoline and distillate sales and marketing, it compete directly with Koch Industries' Flint Hills Resources Refinery in Pine Bend, Minnesota, as well as the other refiners in the PADD II region and, to a lesser extent, U.S. and foreign refiners. Its retail competitors include Holiday and Kwik Trip.
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