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Vonage Holdings (STU:V1Y) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of May. 23, 2024)


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What is Vonage Holdings 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

Vonage Holdings 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 Vonage Holdings's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

STU:V1Y' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 5   Max: 8
Current: 4

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Vonage Holdings was 8. The lowest was 2. And the median was 5.


Vonage Holdings Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Vonage Holdings'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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Vonage Holdings Piotroski F-Score Chart

Vonage Holdings Annual Data
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Piotroski F-Score
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Vonage Holdings Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Vonage Holdings's Piotroski F-Score

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Vonage Holdings'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.


Vonage Holdings's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Vonage Holdings's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Vonage Holdings'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 (Mar22) TTM:Last Year (Mar21) TTM:
Net Income was 0.051 + -1.727 + -19.604 + -15.547 = €-37 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 35.028 + 37.303 + 22.394 + 37.111 = €132 Mil.
Revenue was 291.719 + 304.59 + 324.18 + 325.816 = €1,246 Mil.
Gross Profit was 151.618 + 153.405 + 155.091 + 160.21 = €620 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar21)
to the end of this year (Mar22) was
(1178.302 + 1160.031 + 1194.445 + 1228.507 + 1255.27) / 5 = €1203.311 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar21) was €1,178 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €459 Mil.
Total Current Assets was €203 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was €270 Mil.
Net Income was -7.486 + -8.543 + -11.479 + -0.316 = €-28 Mil.

Revenue was 275.753 + 268.835 + 265.748 + 279.636 = €1,090 Mil.
Gross Profit was 156.772 + 148.361 + 142.271 + 147.935 = €595 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar20)
to the end of last year (Mar21) was
(1212.364 + 1204.029 + 1178.339 + 1147.377 + 1178.302) / 5 = €1184.0822 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar20) was €1,212 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €456 Mil.
Total Current Assets was €188 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was €216 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.

Vonage Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -37. ==> 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.

Vonage Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 132. ==> 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 (Mar21)
=-36.827/1178.302
=-0.0312543

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar20)
=-27.824/1212.364
=-0.0229502

Vonage Holdings's return on assets of this year was -0.0312543. Vonage Holdings's return on assets of last year was -0.0229502. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

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.

Vonage Holdings's current Net Income (TTM) was -37. Vonage Holdings's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 132. ==> 132 > -37 ==> 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: Mar22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar21 to Mar22
=458.685/1203.311
=0.38118574

Gearing (Last Year: Mar21)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar20 to Mar21
=456.366/1184.0822
=0.3854175

Vonage Holdings's gearing of this year was 0.38118574. Vonage Holdings's gearing of last year was 0.3854175. ==> 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: Mar22)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=202.677/269.667
=0.75158251

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar21)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=187.694/215.562
=0.87071933

Vonage Holdings's current ratio of this year was 0.75158251. Vonage Holdings's current ratio of last year was 0.87071933. ==> 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.

Vonage Holdings's number of shares in issue this year was 254.666. Vonage Holdings's number of shares in issue last year was 249.638. ==> 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
=620.324/1246.305
=0.49773049

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=595.339/1089.972
=0.5461966

Vonage Holdings's gross margin of this year was 0.49773049. Vonage Holdings's gross margin of last year was 0.5461966. ==> 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 (Mar21)
=1246.305/1178.302
=1.05771271

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar20)
=1089.972/1212.364
=0.89904682

Vonage Holdings's asset turnover of this year was 1.05771271. Vonage Holdings's asset turnover of last year was 0.89904682. ==> 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+0+1+1+0+0+0+1
=4

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

Vonage Holdings has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Vonage Holdings  (STU:V1Y) 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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Vonage Holdings (STU:V1Y) Business Description

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Address
23 Main Street, Holmdel, NJ, USA, 07733
Vonage Holdings Corp is a North American technology company that provides cloud communication services to businesses and consumers. For businesses, the company provides unified communications (as a service), which consists of integrated voice, text, video, data, and mobile applications over Voice over Internet Protocol network. Its reportable operating segments include Vonage Communications Platform and Consumer. For consumer service customers, there is a home telephone replacement service. This can include services such as voicemail, call waiting, and call forwarding. This service is delivered over the Internet. The company generates most of its revenue within the United States.

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