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Liberty Defense Holdings (TSXV:SCAN) Profitability Rank : 2 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Liberty Defense Holdings Profitability Rank?

Liberty Defense Holdings has the Profitability Rank of 2. It has had trouble to make a profit.

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way. It is rated on a scale of 1 to 10 and is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %
2. Piotroski F-Score
3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.
4. Consistency of the profitability
5. Predictability Rank

A higher score indicates superior profitability, with companies rated 7 or above considered to have more robust and sustainable profit generation. Conversely, a score of 3 or lower suggests challenges in generating consistent profits.

Liberty Defense Holdings's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -191.94%. As of today, Liberty Defense Holdings's Piotroski F-Score is 4.


Competitive Comparison of Liberty Defense Holdings's Profitability Rank

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Liberty Defense Holdings's Profitability Rank, along with its competitors' market caps and Profitability Rank 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.


Liberty Defense Holdings's Profitability Rank Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Liberty Defense Holdings's Profitability Rank distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Liberty Defense Holdings's Profitability Rank falls into.


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Liberty Defense Holdings Profitability Rank Calculation

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way.

The rank is rated on a scale of 1 to 10. A higher score indicates superior profitability, with companies rated 7 or above considered to have more robust and sustainable profit generation. Conversely, a score of 3 or lower suggests challenges in generating consistent profits.

Liberty Defense Holdings has the Profitability Rank of 2. It has had trouble to make a profit.

Profitability Rank is not directly related to the Financial Strength. But if a company is consistently profitable, its financial strength will be stronger.

Profitability Rank is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %

Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.

Liberty Defense Holdings's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2024 ) / Revenue (Q: Sep. 2024 )
=-2.904 / 1.513
=-191.94 %

* 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.

2. Piotroski F-Score

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 8 or 9
Bad or low score = 0 or 1

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

3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.

4. Consistency of the profitability

5. Predictability Rank


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Liberty Defense Holdings Business Description

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Address
789 999 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6C 2W2
Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd provides multi-technology security solutions for concealed weapons detection in high volume foot traffic areas and locations requiring enhanced security such as airports, stadiums, schools, and more. Its HEXWAVE product, provides discrete, modular, and scalable protection to provide layered, stand-off detection capability of metallic and non-metallic weapons. The company has also licensed the millimeter wave-based, High-Definition Advanced Imaging Technology (HD-AIT) body scanner and shoe scanner technologies as part of its technology portfolio. It operates in a single segment being the research and development of new technology for the security industry.
Executives
William Frain Director, Senior Officer
Daryl Rebeck Senior Officer

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