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
Sun Life Financial 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 Sun Life Financial's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
TSX:SLF.PR.C.PFD'
s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4 Med: 6 Max: 9
Current: 7
During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Sun Life Financial was 9. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.
Sun Life Financial Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sun Life 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.
Competitive Comparison of Sun Life Financial's Piotroski F-Score
For the Insurance - Diversified subindustry, Sun Life Financial'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.
Sun Life Financial's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Sun Life Financial's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sun Life Financial'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 (Sep24) TTM:
Last Year (Sep23) TTM:
Net Income was 826 + 893 + 714 + 1422 = C$3,855.00 Mil. Cash Flow from Operations was 3403 + -2487 + 1167 + 3240 = C$5,323.00 Mil. Revenue was 20857 + 7992 + 8966 + 12749 = C$50,564.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Sep23)
to the end of this year (Sep24) was
(313846 + 333241 + 340527 + 344516 + 361252) / 5 = C$338676.4 Mil. Total Assets at the begining of this year (Sep23) was C$313,846.00 Mil. Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$6,377.00 Mil. Total Assets was C$361,252.00 Mil. Total Liabilities was C$335,324.00 Mil.
Net Income was 1169 + 859 + 731 + 927 = C$3,686.00 Mil.
Revenue was 1752 + 12765 + 7922 + 1328 = C$23,767.00 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Sep22)
to the end of last year (Sep23) was
(322131 + 323608 + 332825 + 319941 + 313846) / 5 = C$322470.2 Mil. Total Assets at the begining of last year (Sep22) was C$322,131.00 Mil. Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$9,441.00 Mil. Total Assets was C$313,846.00 Mil. Total Liabilities was C$290,079.00 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.
Sun Life Financial's current Net Income (TTM) was 3,855.00.
==> 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.
Sun Life Financial's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 5,323.00.
==> 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.
Sun Life Financial's return on assets of this year was 0.01228309. Sun Life Financial's return on assets of last year was 0.01144255.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Sun Life Financial's gearing of this year was 0.01882918. Sun Life Financial's gearing of last year was 0.02927712.
==> 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
* 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.
Sun Life Financial's current ratio of this year was 1.07732223. Sun Life Financial's current ratio of last year was 1.08193285.
==> 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.
Sun Life Financial's number of shares in issue this year was 0. Sun Life Financial's number of shares in issue last year was 0.
==> 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.
* 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.
Sun Life Financial's net margin of this year was 0.07624001. Sun Life Financial's net margin of last year was 0.15508899.
==> 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
Sun Life Financial's asset turnover of this year was 0.16111086. Sun Life Financial's asset turnover of last year was 0.07378054.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Sun Life Financial has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
Sun Life Financial (TSX:SLF.PR.C.PFD) 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.
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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Sun Life provides life insurance, retirement, and asset management products to individuals and corporate customers in Canada, the United States, and Asia. The company's investment management business contributes approximately 30% of its adjusted earnings and has around CAD 1 trillion in assets under management as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The Canada business contributes about 35% of adjusted earnings and provides individual life and health insurance, group insurance, retirement services, and wealth management solutions. The U.S. business contributed approximately 22% of earnings and is mainly focused on providing group insurance products and managing the in-force life insurance policies. Finally, the Asia segment contributes around 13% of earnings.
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