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SUND (Sundance Strategies) Piotroski F-Score : 3 (As of Jun. 30, 2025)


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What is Sundance Strategies Piotroski F-Score?

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 3 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Sundance Strategies 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 Sundance Strategies's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

SUND' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1   Med: 3   Max: 5
Current: 3

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Sundance Strategies was 5. The lowest was 1. And the median was 3.


Sundance Strategies Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sundance Strategies'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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Sundance Strategies Piotroski F-Score Chart

Sundance Strategies Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Piotroski F-Score
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Sundance Strategies Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Sundance Strategies's Piotroski F-Score

For the Insurance - Diversified subindustry, Sundance Strategies'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.


Sundance Strategies's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Sundance Strategies's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sundance Strategies's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


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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 (Dec24) TTM:Last Year (Dec23) TTM:
Net Income was -0.933 + -0.436 + -0.268 + -0.261 = $-1.90 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -0.226 + -0.325 + -0.332 + -0.169 = $-1.05 Mil.
Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec23)
to the end of this year (Dec24) was
(0.569 + 0.339 + 0.191 + 0.446 + 0.273) / 5 = $0.3636 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec23) was $0.57 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1.31 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.27 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $4.47 Mil.
Net Income was -1.588 + -0.338 + -0.201 + -0.363 = $-2.49 Mil.

Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec22)
to the end of last year (Dec23) was
(0.015 + 0.009 + 0.011 + 0.201 + 0.569) / 5 = $0.161 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec22) was $0.02 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $3.20 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $0.57 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1.66 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.

Sundance Strategies's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.90. ==> 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.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

Sundance Strategies's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -1.05. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

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 (Dec23)
=-1.898/0.569
=-3.33567663

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=-2.49/0.015
=-166

Sundance Strategies's return on assets of this year was -3.33567663. Sundance Strategies's return on assets of last year was -166. ==> 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.

Sundance Strategies's current Net Income (TTM) was -1.90. Sundance Strategies's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -1.05. ==> -1.05 > -1.90 ==> 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: Dec24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec23 to Dec24
=1.305/0.3636
=3.58910891

Gearing (Last Year: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=3.2/0.161
=19.8757764

Sundance Strategies's gearing of this year was 3.58910891. Sundance Strategies's gearing of last year was 19.8757764. ==> 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

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=0.273/4.468
=0.06110116

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=0.569/1.664
=0.34194712

Sundance Strategies's current ratio of this year was 0.06110116. Sundance Strategies's current ratio of last year was 0.34194712. ==> 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.

Sundance Strategies's number of shares in issue this year was 43.063. Sundance Strategies's number of shares in issue last year was 42.237. ==> 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.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=0/0
=

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=0/0
=

Sundance Strategies's gross margin of this year was . Sundance Strategies's gross margin of last year was . ==> 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

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec23)
=0/0.569
=0

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec22)
=0/0.015
=0

Sundance Strategies's asset turnover of this year was 0. Sundance Strategies's asset turnover of last year was 0. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

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

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

Sundance Strategies has an F-score of 3. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

Sundance Strategies  (OTCPK:SUND) 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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Sundance Strategies Business Description

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Address
4626 North 300 West, Suite No. 365, Provo, UT, USA, 84604
Sundance Strategies Inc is a specialty financial services company. The company is engaged in the business of purchasing or acquiring life insurance policies and residual interests in or financial products tied to life insurance policies and residual interests involving life insurance policies and financial products. It focuses on the purchase and sale of net insurance benefit contracts (NIB) based on life insurance policies.
Executives
Randall F. Pearson director, officer: President 770 S. PALISADE DR., OREM UT 84097
Kraig Higginson director 2296 NORTH 470 E, PROVO UT 84604
Matthew G. Pearson officer: Chief Operating Officer P.O. BOX 680518, PARK CITY UT 84068
Ty D. Mattingly director, 10 percent owner 22 WEST 620 SOUTH, OREM UT 84058
Glenn S. Dickman director, officer: Secretary 13559 TUSCALEE WAY, DRAPER UT 84020
Mitchell D. Burton 10 percent owner 1343 S. 1100 E., OREM UT 84097
Jonathan Craig Moffitt director, officer: President and CEO 4626 NORTH 300 WEST, SUITE 375, PROVO UT 84604
Del R. Higginson director, officer: CFO, Secretary and Treasurer 11148 NORTH SUNFLOWER DRIVE, HIGHLAND UT 84003
Kelly Trimble 10 percent owner 4685 HIGHLAND DRIVE, SUITE #207, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84117
Mark C Burdge director, 10 percent owner 815 EAST OSMOND LANE, PROVO UT 84604
Howard Abrams director, officer: CEO and CFO
Mark Sansom other: No longer a 10% holder 4061 POWER CIRCLE, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84124
Globe Energy Technologies, Llc 10 percent owner 5055 N. EDGEWOOD DR, PO BOX 222, PROVE UT 84604
Lance Musicant director, 10 percent owner, officer: President,CFO, CEO 5017 WILD BUFFALO AVE, LAS VEGAS NV 89131
Allen Musicant director, 10 percent owner, officer: Vice President 5017 WILD BUFFALO AVE, LAS VEGAS NV 89131