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Nordic American Tankers (Nordic American Tankers) Piotroski F-Score

: 7 (As of Today)
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Good Sign:

Piotroski F-Score is 7, indicates a very healthy situation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Nordic American Tankers 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 Nordic American Tankers's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

NAT' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 6   Max: 8
Current: 7

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Nordic American Tankers was 8. The lowest was 2. And the median was 6.


Nordic American Tankers Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Nordic American Tankers'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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Nordic American Tankers Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 8.00 2.00 8.00 7.00

Nordic American Tankers Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.00 6.00 8.00 8.00 7.00

Competitive Comparison

For the Marine Shipping subindustry, Nordic American Tankers'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.


Nordic American Tankers Piotroski F-Score Distribution

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Nordic American Tankers's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nordic American Tankers'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.

This Year (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was 46.911 + 26.81 + 7.487 + 17.504 = $98.7 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 51.1 + 48.02 + 26.953 + 13.372 = $139.4 Mil.
Revenue was 87.094 + 133.44 + 48.036 + 92.704 = $361.3 Mil.
Gross Profit was 60.416 + 39.149 + 20.76 + 30.456 = $150.8 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(879.883 + 862.985 + 882.489 + 836.332 + 879.196) / 5 = $868.177 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $879.9 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $269.7 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $108.9 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $70.5 Mil.
Net Income was -26.986 + -3.954 + 10.009 + 36.032 = $15.1 Mil.

Revenue was 15.521 + 34.75 + 47.382 + 241.612 = $339.3 Mil.
Gross Profit was -14.023 + 5.522 + 20.254 + 43.146 = $54.9 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(851.152 + 829.103 + 899.167 + 881.928 + 879.883) / 5 = $868.2466 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $851.2 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $266.9 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $142.7 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $72.4 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.

Nordic American Tankers's current Net Income (TTM) was 98.7. ==> 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.

Nordic American Tankers's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 139.4. ==> 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 (Dec22)
=98.712/879.883
=0.11218764

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=15.101/851.152
=0.01774184

Nordic American Tankers's return on assets of this year was 0.11218764. Nordic American Tankers's return on assets of last year was 0.01774184. ==> 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.

Nordic American Tankers's current Net Income (TTM) was 98.7. Nordic American Tankers's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 139.4. ==> 139.4 > 98.7 ==> 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: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=269.697/868.177
=0.31064748

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=266.872/868.2466
=0.3073689

Nordic American Tankers's gearing of this year was 0.31064748. Nordic American Tankers's gearing of last year was 0.3073689. ==> 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: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=108.91/70.478
=1.54530492

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=142.662/72.414
=1.97008866

Nordic American Tankers's current ratio of this year was 1.54530492. Nordic American Tankers's current ratio of last year was 1.97008866. ==> 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.

Nordic American Tankers's number of shares in issue this year was 208.796. Nordic American Tankers's number of shares in issue last year was 209.015. ==> 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
=150.781/361.274
=0.41735912

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=54.899/339.265
=0.16181746

Nordic American Tankers's gross margin of this year was 0.41735912. Nordic American Tankers's gross margin of last year was 0.16181746. ==> 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 (Dec22)
=361.274/879.883
=0.41059323

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=339.265/851.152
=0.39859508

Nordic American Tankers's asset turnover of this year was 0.41059323. Nordic American Tankers's asset turnover of last year was 0.39859508. ==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.

Evaluation

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

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

Nordic American Tankers has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.

Nordic American Tankers  (NYSE:NAT) 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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Nordic American Tankers (Nordic American Tankers) Business Description

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Address
26 Victoria Street, Swan Building, Hamilton, BMU, HM 12
Nordic American Tankers Ltd owns and operates double hull crude oil tankers. It is an international tanker company that owns double-hull Suezmax tankers. It operates vessels in the spot market or on spot market-related charters pursuant to cooperative arrangements with third parties. The company's fleet consists of crude oil tankers, and all of its vessels are employed in the spot market. The company has only one type of vessel - Suezmax crude oil tankers. It operates in markets that are very competitive and based mainly on supply and demand.