Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Symetra Financial has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
The historical rank and industry rank for Symetra Financial's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Symetra Financial Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Symetra Financial'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.
Net Income was 64.4 + 79.3 + 71.5 + 36 = $251 Mil.
Revenue was 543.1 + 545.5 + 547.1 + 509 = $2,145 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Sep13)
to the end of last year (Sep14) was
(29784.6 + 30129.5 + 31164.3 + 31943.6 + 32634.5) / 5 = $31131.3 Mil. Total Assets at the begining of last year (Sep13) was $29,785 Mil. Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0 Mil. Total Assets was $32,635 Mil. Total Liabilities was $29,259 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.
Symetra Financial's current Net Income (TTM) was 157.
==> 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.
Symetra Financial's return on assets of this year was 0.00481699. Symetra Financial's return on assets of last year was 0.00843389.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Symetra Financial's gearing of this year was 0.02069536. Symetra Financial'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
* 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.
Symetra Financial's current ratio of this year was 1.09819171. Symetra Financial's current ratio of last year was 1.11535859.
==> 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.
Symetra Financial's number of shares in issue this year was 116.31. Symetra Financial's number of shares in issue last year was 115.907.
==> 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.
* 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.
Symetra Financial's net margin of this year was 0.07188915. Symetra Financial's net margin of last year was 0.11712594.
==> 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
Symetra Financial's asset turnover of this year was 0.06700578. Symetra Financial's asset turnover of last year was 0.07200701.
==> 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
Symetra Financial has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
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.
Symetra Financial Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Symetra Financial (Symetra Financial) Business Description
Symetra Financial Corp was incorporated in 2004 under the laws of Delaware. It is a financial services company in the life insurance industry. Its products are distributed domestically in all states and the District of Columbia, through benefits consultants, financial institutions, and independent agents and advisers. The Company manages its business through three divisions, namely The Benefits division, which includes the Benefits segment, provides medical stop-loss insurance, group life and disability income (DI) insurance, and limited benefit medical insurance as its principal products; The Retirement division, which includes the Deferred Annuities and Income Annuities segments, provides single-premium fixed deferred annuities (fixed annuities, including fixed indexed annuities), variable deferred annuities and single premium immediate annuities (SPIAs) as its principal products; The Individual Life Division, which includes the Individual Life segment, offers retail products, such as universal life (UL) and term life insurance, and products sold to institutions, including bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) and variable corporate-owned life Insurance (COLI), as its principal products. The Company faces significant competition for customers and distributors from insurance and other non-insurance financial services companies, such as banks, broker-dealers and asset managers, in each of its businesses. The Company's insurance operations are subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations.
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