Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Emperor Capital Group has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Emperor Capital Group's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
HKSE:00717'
s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2 Med: 5 Max: 7
Current: 5
During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Emperor Capital Group was 7. The lowest was 2. And the median was 5.
Emperor Capital Group Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Emperor Capital Group'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.
Competitive Comparison of Emperor Capital Group's Piotroski F-Score
For the Credit Services subindustry, Emperor Capital Group'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.
Emperor Capital Group's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Credit Services Industry
For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Emperor Capital Group's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Emperor Capital Group's Piotroski F-Score falls into.
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.
*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.
Emperor Capital Group's current Net Income (TTM) was -160.6.
==> Negative ==> Score 0.
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.
Emperor Capital Group's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 375.7.
==> 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.
Emperor Capital Group's return on assets of this year was -0.02825076. Emperor Capital Group's return on assets of last year was -0.04402442.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Emperor Capital Group's gearing of this year was 0.00234476. Emperor Capital Group's gearing of last year was 0.00021181.
==> 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
Emperor Capital Group's current ratio of this year was 2.62979535. Emperor Capital Group's current ratio of last year was 2.33542752.
==> 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.
Emperor Capital Group's number of shares in issue this year was 6740.846. Emperor Capital Group's number of shares in issue last year was 6740.846.
==> 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.
Emperor Capital Group's gross margin of this year was 0.75107385. Emperor Capital Group's gross margin of last year was 0.78981352.
==> 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
Emperor Capital Group's asset turnover of this year was 0.07042166. Emperor Capital Group's asset turnover of last year was 0.07414477.
==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Emperor Capital Group has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Emperor Capital Group (HKSE:00717) 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.
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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Emperor Capital Group (HKSE:00717) Business Description
Emperor Capital Group Ltd is principally engaged in providing financial services. The company has four reportable segments namely Financing, which offers margin financing and money-lending services; Brokerage, which provides broking services and related handling services for securities, options, futures, insurance, other assets, and wealth-management products; Placing and Underwriting, which provides placing and underwriting services; and Corporate Finance, which offers corporate finance advisory services. The financing segment accounts maximum of the company's total revenue. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Hong Kong, with a little from the U.S. and other areas.
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