* 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 Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's Piotroski F-Score
For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, Ashot- Ashkelon Industries'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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry
For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's Piotroski F-Score falls into.
* 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.
*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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's current Net Income (TTM) was 27.8.
==> 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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 96.0.
==> 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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's return on assets of this year was 0.04087399. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's return on assets of last year was 0.02132771.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's gearing of this year was 0.02470221. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's gearing of last year was 0.00689587.
==> 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
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's current ratio of this year was 1.11887615. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's current ratio of last year was 1.14257025.
==> 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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's number of shares in issue this year was 23.917. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's number of shares in issue last year was 23.572.
==> 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.
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's gross margin of this year was 0.21492924. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's gross margin of last year was 0.20108301.
==> 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
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's asset turnover of this year was 0.5783368. Ashot- Ashkelon Industries's asset turnover of last year was 0.54921631.
==> 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
Ashot- Ashkelon Industries 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.
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Ashot- Ashkelon Industries Ltd produces metal products, aviation parts, armored combat vehicle systems, and heavy metal products. It supplies technological systems and components for the international aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries. The company's products include gears, transmissions, gearboxes long and short shafts for jet engines, landing gear components, and tungsten-based products, among others. The company's domicile, and partly in the United States, the subsidiary's domicile. Marketing and sales activities are mainly in Israel, in the USA and Europe.
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