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Quality Online Education Group (Quality Online Education Group) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-0.01 (As of May23)


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What is Quality Online Education Group Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of May23, Quality Online Education Group's earnings power value is $-0.01. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is N/A.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


Quality Online Education Group Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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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Quality Online Education Group Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

Quality Online Education Group Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Aug13 Aug14 Aug21 Aug22
Earnings Power Value (EPV)
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.02 -3.47 -0.16 -0.01 -

Quality Online Education Group Quarterly Data
Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Aug13 Nov13 Feb14 May14 Aug14 Nov14 Feb15 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23
Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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 - - -0.01 -0.01 -0.01

Competitive Comparison of Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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.


Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Quality Online Education Group Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.

Quality Online Education Group's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 20 Quarters Last Quarter
Revenue 2.19
DDA 0.07
Operating Margin % -79.06
SGA * 25% 0.61
Tax Rate % 5.91
Maintenance Capex 0.57
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.17
Short-Term Debt 0.44
Long-Term Debt 0.00
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 1,855.07

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = -79.06%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = $2.19 Mil, Average Operating Margin = -79.06%, Average Adjusted SGA = 0.61,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 2.19 * -79.06% +0.61 = $-1.127350932 Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 5.91%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $-1.127350932 Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = -1.127350932 * ( 1 - 5.91% ) = $-1.0607301286735 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 0.07 * 0.5 * 5.91% = $0.001997411 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = -1.0607301286735 + 0.001997411 = $-1.0587327176735 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
Quality Online Education Group's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.57 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. Quality Online Education Group's current cash and cash equivalent = $0.17 Mil.
Quality Online Education Group's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 0.00 + 0.44 = $0.442 Mil.
Quality Online Education Group's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 1,855.07 Mil.

Quality Online Education Group's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for May23 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( -1.0587327176735 - 0.57)/ 9%+0.17-0.442 )/1,855.07
=-0.01

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( -0.0099234780792255-0.0016 )/-0.0099234780792255
= N/A

* 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.

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.


Quality Online Education Group  (OTCPK:QOEG) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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Quality Online Education Group (Quality Online Education Group) Business Description

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Address
55 Commerce Valley Dr. West, Thornhill, ON, CAN, L3T7V9
Quality Online Education Group Inc is a e-Learning company that provides comprehensive online English lessons to students in China and expanding to other markets where English education is sought after. The company is a pioneer and industry leader in providing real-time online small group classes. The main business scope of the Group includes K12 English Online education services, courseware development and education-technology platform development. The students achieve noticeable and quantifiable results, by delivery of quality education from passionate team of teachers and teaching assistants, based in North America and the Philippines.
Executives
Amanda Anderson director UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Fu Kei Man Derek director 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Yin Yee Tso director, officer: Chief Operating Officer UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Wing Yee Tong 10 percent owner UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Lai Ying Li director, officer: Chairman, CEO, CFO and Sec. UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Wing Shan Tong 10 percent owner UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR
Yiu Kwong Pang director UNITS 2611-13A, 26/F, 113 ARGYLE STREET, MONGKOK, KOWLOON K3 SAR

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