Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Waste Connections 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 Waste Connections's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
WCN'
s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3 Med: 6 Max: 9
Current: 6
During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Waste Connections was 9. The lowest was 3. And the median was 6.
Waste Connections Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Waste Connections'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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Waste Connections Annual Data
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Waste Connections Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison
For the Waste Management subindustry, Waste Connections'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.
Waste Connections Piotroski F-Score Distribution
For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Waste Connections's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Waste Connections's Piotroski F-Score falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Piotroski F-Score's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
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 (Mar23) TTM:
Last Year (Mar22) TTM:
Net Income was 224.074 + 236.912 + 194.352 + 197.813 = $853 Mil. Cash Flow from Operations was 532.781 + 526.459 + 522.355 + 442.358 = $2,024 Mil. Revenue was 1816.435 + 1879.868 + 1869.301 + 1900.503 = $7,466 Mil. Gross Profit was 728.543 + 759.239 + 731.328 + 753.562 = $2,973 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar22)
to the end of this year (Mar23) was
(15414.362 + 15416.241 + 16130.668 + 17134.603 + 17227.094) / 5 = $16264.5936 Mil. Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar22) was $15,414 Mil. Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $7,091 Mil. Total Current Assets was $1,134 Mil. Total Current Liabilities was $1,383 Mil.
Net Income was 177.047 + 114.381 + 166.311 + 180.324 = $638 Mil.
Revenue was 1533.931 + 1597.168 + 1624.319 + 1646.255 = $6,402 Mil. Gross Profit was 632.74 + 651.07 + 643.454 + 656.737 = $2,584 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar21)
to the end of last year (Mar22) was
(14042.929 + 14106.207 + 14274.832 + 14699.924 + 15414.362) / 5 = $14507.6508 Mil. Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar21) was $14,043 Mil. Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $5,952 Mil. Total Current Assets was $1,413 Mil. Total Current Liabilities was $1,258 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.
Waste Connections's current Net Income (TTM) was 853.
==> 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.
Waste Connections's return on assets of this year was 0.0553478. Waste Connections's return on assets of last year was 0.0454366.
==> 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.
Waste Connections's current Net Income (TTM) was 853. Waste Connections's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 2,024.
==> 2,024 > 853 ==> 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.
Waste Connections's gearing of this year was 0.43597093. Waste Connections's gearing of last year was 0.41026856.
==> 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
Waste Connections's current ratio of this year was 0.82003407. Waste Connections's current ratio of last year was 1.1233626.
==> 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.
Waste Connections's number of shares in issue this year was 257.989. Waste Connections's number of shares in issue last year was 259.561.
==> 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.
Waste Connections's gross margin of this year was 0.39815556. Waste Connections's gross margin of last year was 0.40364464.
==> 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
Waste Connections's asset turnover of this year was 0.48436043. Waste Connections's asset turnover of last year was 0.45586451.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Waste Connections has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
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.
Waste Connections Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Waste Connections is the third-largest integrated provider of traditional solid waste and recycling services in the North America, operating 97 active landfills (12 are exploration and production waste landfills and 14 are nonmunicipal waste landfills), 142 transfer stations, and 71 recycling operations. The firm serves residential, commercial, industrial, and energy end markets. Waste Connections entered the Canadian market with its 2016 merger with Progressive Waste. In 2021, 14% of consolidated revenue was generated from the firm's Canadian segment.
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