Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Monster Worldwide 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 Monster Worldwide's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Monster Worldwide Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Monster Worldwide'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.
Monster Worldwide's current Net Income (TTM) was -246.8.
==> 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.
Monster Worldwide's return on assets of this year was -0.2179381. Monster Worldwide's return on assets of last year was -0.17732623.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Monster Worldwide's gearing of this year was 0.16844431. Monster Worldwide's gearing of last year was 0.15215134.
==> 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
Monster Worldwide's current ratio of this year was 1.01601467. Monster Worldwide's current ratio of last year was 1.05984756.
==> 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.
Monster Worldwide's number of shares in issue this year was 88.932. Monster Worldwide's number of shares in issue last year was 96.839.
==> 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.
Monster Worldwide's gross margin of this year was 1. Monster Worldwide's gross margin of last year was 1.
==> 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
Monster Worldwide's asset turnover of this year was 0.54111671. Monster Worldwide's asset turnover of last year was 0.4449952.
==> 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
Monster Worldwide has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
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.
Monster Worldwide Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Monster Worldwide (Monster Worldwide) Business Description
Monster Worldwide Inc was incorporated in Delaware on August 30, 1996. The Company together with its subsidiaries is engaged in connecting people to jobs, wherever they are. The Company offers services in approximately more than 40 countries, providing some of the sophisticated job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management capabilities. The Company provides its services through digital, social and mobile solutions, including its flagship website monster.com and other products and services. The Company operates through two segments including Careers-North America and Careers-International. It offers placement of job advertisements on the websites within the Monster network, access to the Monster network of online resume and social profile databases, recruitment media services and other career-related services. The Company's segments provide online services to customers in diversified industries throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The Company's services and solutions include searchable job advertisements; resume database access; recruitment media solutions through advertising network and partnerships; social job distribution through Twitter and Facebook; display advertising; lead generation; social profile aggregation; and other career-related content. In addition, the Company has alliances with media and publishing companies, including approximately 1,000 newspapers in the United States, which extends its presence with local and regional job seekers. The Company's sales resources consist of field sales, telesales, a self-service e-Commerce channel, and resellers such as newspapers and recruitment advertising agencies. Its sales activities are geared toward enterprise, small and medium sized businesses ("SMBs"), staffing companies, government agencies, and advertising agencies. Its customers are comprised of enterprise organizations, small and medium-sized organizations, federal, state and local government agencies, educational institutions and individuals. The Company faces competition from a number of sources including other employment-related websites, general classified advertising websites, professional networking and social networking websites, traditional media companies, Internet portals, search engines and general-interest websites such as blogs.
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