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Competitive Comparison of The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's Piotroski F-Score
For the Asset Management subindustry, The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust'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.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
* The bar in red indicates where The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust'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.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's current Net Income (TTM) was 9.98.
==> 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.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 25.64.
==> 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.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's return on assets of this year was 0.06691876. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's return on assets of last year was -0.14740618.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's gearing of this year was 0.00014187. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's gearing of last year was 0.00027773.
==> 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
* Note that for banks and insurance companies, there's no Total Current Assets and Total Current Liabilities reported. Thus, we use Total Assets and Total Liabilities to calculate current ratio for banks and insurance companies.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's current ratio of this year was 8.14567871. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's current ratio of last year was 4.51425545.
==> 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.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's number of shares in issue this year was 8.459. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's number of shares in issue last year was 9.02.
==> 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.
* Note that for banks and insurance companies, there's no Gross Profit reported. Thus, we use net income instead of gross profit and calculate Net Margin for this score.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's net margin of this year was 0.93727111. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's net margin of last year was 1.02392973.
==> Last year's net 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
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's asset turnover of this year was 0.07139744. The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust's asset turnover of last year was -0.14396122.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust has an F-score of 8. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust (NYSE:GGZ) 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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The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust (The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust) Business Description
The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust is a diversified closed-end management investment company whose investment objective is long-term capital growth. It invests in equity securities such as common stock and preferred stock of companies.
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