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Total Telcom (TSXV:TTZ) Piotroski F-Score : 5 (As of Mar. 27, 2025)


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What is Total Telcom 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

Total Telcom has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

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

TSXV:TTZ' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 6   Max: 9
Current: 5

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Total Telcom was 9. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.


Total Telcom Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Total Telcom'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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Total Telcom Piotroski F-Score Chart

Total Telcom Annual Data
Trend Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Piotroski F-Score
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Total Telcom Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
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Competitive Comparison of Total Telcom's Piotroski F-Score

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Total Telcom'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.


Total Telcom's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Total Telcom's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Total Telcom'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 0.092 + 0.114 + 0.063 + 0.038 = C$0.31 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 0.376 + 0.125 + 0.096 + 0.218 = C$0.82 Mil.
Revenue was 0.52 + 0.489 + 0.484 + 0.444 = C$1.94 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.306 + 0.287 + 0.287 + 0.259 = C$1.14 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec23)
to the end of this year (Dec24) was
(4.986 + 5.066 + 5.529 + 5.561 + 5.562) / 5 = C$5.3408 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec23) was C$4.99 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$0.26 Mil.
Total Current Assets was C$3.49 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was C$0.28 Mil.
Net Income was 0.093 + 0.252 + -0.016 + 0.102 = C$0.43 Mil.

Revenue was 0.588 + 0.714 + 0.342 + 0.62 = C$2.26 Mil.
Gross Profit was 0.36 + 0.509 + 0.199 + 0.386 = C$1.45 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec22)
to the end of last year (Dec23) was
(4.508 + 4.635 + 4.928 + 5.057 + 4.986) / 5 = C$4.8228 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec22) was C$4.51 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$0.04 Mil.
Total Current Assets was C$3.23 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was C$0.26 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.

Total Telcom's current Net Income (TTM) was 0.31. ==> 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.

Total Telcom's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 0.82. ==> 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 (Dec23)
=0.307/4.986
=0.0615724

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=0.431/4.508
=0.09560781

Total Telcom's return on assets of this year was 0.0615724. Total Telcom's return on assets of last year was 0.09560781. ==> 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.

Total Telcom's current Net Income (TTM) was 0.31. Total Telcom's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 0.82. ==> 0.82 > 0.31 ==> 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
=0.262/5.3408
=0.04905632

Gearing (Last Year: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=0.04/4.8228
=0.00829394

Total Telcom's gearing of this year was 0.04905632. Total Telcom's gearing of last year was 0.00829394. ==> 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

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=3.486/0.279
=12.49462366

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=3.228/0.26
=12.41538462

Total Telcom's current ratio of this year was 12.49462366. Total Telcom's current ratio of last year was 12.41538462. ==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.

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.

Total Telcom's number of shares in issue this year was 26.423. Total Telcom's number of shares in issue last year was 26.423. ==> 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.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=1.139/1.937
=0.58802272

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=1.454/2.264
=0.64222615

Total Telcom's gross margin of this year was 0.58802272. Total Telcom's gross margin of last year was 0.64222615. ==> 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)
=1.937/4.986
=0.38848777

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec22)
=2.264/4.508
=0.50221828

Total Telcom's asset turnover of this year was 0.38848777. Total Telcom's asset turnover of last year was 0.50221828. ==> 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
=1+1+0+1+0+1+1+0+0
=5

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

Total Telcom has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Total Telcom  (TSXV:TTZ) 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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Total Telcom Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1632 Dickson Avenue, Suite 540, Kelowna, BC, CAN, V1Y 7T2
Total Telcom Inc along with its subsidiaries is engaged in the development and sale of remote asset monitoring and tracking products and services. Geographically, the company derives a majority of revenue from the United States and also has a presence in Canada, and other countries.
Executives
Gianpaolo Fabrisio Andreola Director
Scott Allen Director
David Harry Hammermeister Director

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