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Unilever Ghana (XGHA:UNIL) Piotroski F-Score : 4 (As of Apr. 08, 2025)


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What is Unilever Ghana 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

Unilever Ghana 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 Unilever Ghana's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

XGHA:UNIL' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 7   Max: 9
Current: 4

During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Unilever Ghana was 9. The lowest was 4. And the median was 7.


Unilever Ghana Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Unilever Ghana'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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Unilever Ghana Piotroski F-Score Chart

Unilever Ghana Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial N/A N/A 9.00 6.00 8.00

Unilever Ghana Quarterly Data
Dec08 Dec09 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only N/A 8.00 8.00 5.00 4.00

Competitive Comparison of Unilever Ghana's Piotroski F-Score

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Unilever Ghana'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.


Unilever Ghana's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Unilever Ghana's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Unilever Ghana'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 (Sep24) TTM:Last Year (Sep23) TTM:
Net Income was 49.49 + 24.26 + 31.881 + -9.772 = GHS95.9 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 37.064 + 46.033 + -1.727 + -35.73 = GHS45.6 Mil.
Revenue was 213.813 + 242.505 + 234.486 + 215.48 = GHS906.3 Mil.
Gross Profit was 78.099 + 107.398 + 96.369 + 69.412 = GHS351.3 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Sep23)
to the end of this year (Sep24) was
(498.352 + 412.527 + 507.104 + 496.17 + 471.718) / 5 = GHS477.1742 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Sep23) was GHS498.4 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was GHS14.3 Mil.
Total Current Assets was GHS310.2 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was GHS234.9 Mil.
Net Income was 27.243 + 28.47 + 36.819 + 26.664 = GHS119.2 Mil.

Revenue was 167.608 + 241.86 + 238.843 + 214.131 = GHS862.4 Mil.
Gross Profit was 52.938 + 84.619 + 94.846 + 81.111 = GHS313.5 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Sep22)
to the end of last year (Sep23) was
(405.009 + 411.754 + 434.825 + 471.757 + 498.352) / 5 = GHS444.3394 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Sep22) was GHS405.0 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was GHS11.8 Mil.
Total Current Assets was GHS305.3 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was GHS334.6 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.

Unilever Ghana's current Net Income (TTM) was 95.9. ==> 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.

Unilever Ghana's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 45.6. ==> 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 (Sep23)
=95.859/498.352
=0.19235199

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Sep22)
=119.196/405.009
=0.29430457

Unilever Ghana's return on assets of this year was 0.19235199. Unilever Ghana's return on assets of last year was 0.29430457. ==> 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.

Unilever Ghana's current Net Income (TTM) was 95.9. Unilever Ghana's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 45.6. ==> 45.6 <= 95.9 ==> CFROA <= ROA ==> Score 0.

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: Sep24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep23 to Sep24
=14.273/477.1742
=0.02991151

Gearing (Last Year: Sep23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Sep22 to Sep23
=11.775/444.3394
=0.02650001

Unilever Ghana's gearing of this year was 0.02991151. Unilever Ghana's gearing of last year was 0.02650001. ==> 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: Sep24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=310.156/234.876
=1.32050955

Current Ratio (Last Year: Sep23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=305.319/334.594
=0.9125059

Unilever Ghana's current ratio of this year was 1.32050955. Unilever Ghana's current ratio of last year was 0.9125059. ==> 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.

Unilever Ghana's number of shares in issue this year was 83.338. Unilever Ghana's number of shares in issue last year was 62.5. ==> 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
=351.278/906.284
=0.38760256

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=313.514/862.442
=0.36351894

Unilever Ghana's gross margin of this year was 0.38760256. Unilever Ghana's gross margin of last year was 0.36351894. ==> 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 (Sep23)
=906.284/498.352
=1.81856198

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Sep22)
=862.442/405.009
=2.1294391

Unilever Ghana's asset turnover of this year was 1.81856198. Unilever Ghana's asset turnover of last year was 2.1294391. ==> 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+0+0+1+0+1+0
=4

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

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

Unilever Ghana  (XGHA:UNIL) 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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Unilever Ghana Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Tema Factory, Plot No. Ind/A/2/3A-4, P O Box 721, Tema, GHA
Unilever Ghana PLC is engaged in manufacturing and selling consumer goods. The company offers personal care products, food products and home care products.

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