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Piedmont Lithium (Piedmont Lithium) Piotroski F-Score : N/A (As of Apr. 28, 2024)


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What is Piedmont Lithium Piotroski F-Score?

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Piedmont Lithium has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

The historical rank and industry rank for Piedmont Lithium's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Piedmont Lithium was 3. The lowest was 1. And the median was 2.


Piedmont Lithium Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Piedmont Lithium'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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Piedmont Lithium Piotroski F-Score Chart

Piedmont Lithium Annual Data
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Piotroski F-Score
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Piedmont Lithium Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Piedmont Lithium's Piotroski F-Score

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Piedmont Lithium'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.


Piedmont Lithium's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Piedmont Lithium's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Piedmont Lithium'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 -8.64 + -10.639 + 22.891 + -25.39 = $-21.78 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -9.512 + -10.176 + 25.091 + -3.833 = $1.57 Mil.
Revenue was 0 + 0 + 47.127 + -7.31 = $39.82 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0 + 0 + 23.764 + -18.085 = $5.68 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was
(287.921 + 347.657 + 342.935 + 397.35 + 381.255) / 5 = $351.4236 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $287.92 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1.11 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $76.15 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $41.37 Mil.
Net Income was -9.155 + -9.581 + 16.665 + -10.904 = $-12.98 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 (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was
(0 + 281.544 + 273.046 + 297.855 + 287.921) / 5 = $285.0915 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $0.00 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1.34 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $101.86 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $13.41 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.

Piedmont Lithium's current Net Income (TTM) was -21.78. ==> 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.

Piedmont Lithium's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1.57. ==> 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)
=-21.778/287.921
=-0.0756388

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=-12.975/0
=

Piedmont Lithium's return on assets of this year was -0.0756388. Piedmont Lithium's return on assets of last year was . ==> 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.

Piedmont Lithium's current Net Income (TTM) was -21.78. Piedmont Lithium's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1.57. ==> 1.57 > -21.78 ==> 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
=1.105/351.4236
=0.00314435

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=1.34/285.0915
=0.00470025

Piedmont Lithium's gearing of this year was 0.00314435. Piedmont Lithium's gearing of last year was 0.00470025. ==> 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: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=76.154/41.366
=1.84098052

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=101.859/13.411
=7.59518306

Piedmont Lithium's current ratio of this year was 1.84098052. Piedmont Lithium's current ratio of last year was 7.59518306. ==> 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.

Piedmont Lithium's number of shares in issue this year was 19.21. Piedmont Lithium's number of shares in issue last year was 18.043. ==> 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
=5.679/39.817
=0.14262752

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

Piedmont Lithium's gross margin of this year was 0.14262752. Piedmont Lithium's gross margin of last year was . ==> 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)
=39.817/287.921
=0.13829141

Piedmont Lithium's asset turnover of this year was 0.13829141. Piedmont Lithium's asset turnover of last year was . ==> 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
=0+1+1+1+1+0+0+1+1
=6

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

Piedmont Lithium has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Piedmont Lithium  (NAS:PLL) 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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Piedmont Lithium (Piedmont Lithium) Business Description

Address
42 E Catawba Street, Belmont, NC, USA, 28012
Piedmont Lithium Inc, is a lithium-based company focused on the development of its Piedmont Lithium Project located within the Carolina TinSpodumene Belt (''TSB'') and along trend to the Hallman Beam and Kings Mountain mines.
Executives
Claude Demby director C/O SMART MODULAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 39870 EUREKA DRIVE, NEWARK CA 94560
Michael D White officer: EVP and CFO 17988 EDISON AVE, CHESTERFIELD MA 63005
Michael A Bless director C/O ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL INC, 777 E. WISCONSIN AVE #1400, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Bruce Czachor officer: EVP, CLO & Secretary 32 NORTH MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Patrick Brindle officer: EVP and CDO 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Keith D. Phillips director, officer: President and CEO 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Austin Devaney officer: EVP and CCO C/O PIEDMONT LITHIUM INC., 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Krishna Mcvey officer: EVP and CAO C/O PIEDMONT LITHIUM INC., 42 E CATAWBA STREET, BELMONT NC 28012
Christina M Alvord director 1200 URBAN CENTER DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM AL 35242
Jeffrey T. Armstrong director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
David Klanecky officer: EVP and COO 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Susan C. Jones director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Levi Mochkin director
Todd Hannigan director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012
Jorge Beristain director 32N MAIN STREET, SUITE 100, BELMONT NC 28012