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Mercari (TSE:4385) Piotroski F-Score : 5 (As of May. 14, 2024)


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What is Mercari 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

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

TSE:4385' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1   Med: 4   Max: 5
Current: 5

During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Mercari was 5. The lowest was 1. And the median was 4.


Mercari Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mercari'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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Mercari Piotroski F-Score Chart

Mercari Annual Data
Trend Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Piotroski F-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial N/A 3.00 5.00 4.00 4.00

Mercari Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Mercari's Piotroski F-Score

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Mercari'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.


Mercari's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Mercari's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Mercari'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.

This Year (Mar24) TTM:Last Year (Mar23) TTM:
Net Income was 8654 + 2811 + 1739 + 3248 = 円16,452 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was -9167 + -12531 + -17048 + -8474 = 円-47,220 Mil.
Revenue was 44415 + 44271 + 48115 + 43707 = 円180,508 Mil.
Gross Profit was 31506 + 30308 + 33791 + 28647 = 円124,252 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar23)
to the end of this year (Mar24) was
(392594 + 415292 + 430399 + 456578 + 484858) / 5 = 円435944.2 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar23) was 円392,594 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was 円137,143 Mil.
Total Current Assets was 円385,768 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was 円279,778 Mil.
Net Income was 139 + 629 + 538 + 4203 = 円5,509 Mil.

Revenue was 37348 + 39800 + 44141 + 48492 = 円169,781 Mil.
Gross Profit was 23451 + 25234 + 29036 + 33753 = 円111,474 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar22)
to the end of last year (Mar23) was
(332980 + 339862 + 358736 + 375275 + 392594) / 5 = 円359889.4 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar22) was 円332,980 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was 円86,750 Mil.
Total Current Assets was 円327,005 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was 円259,769 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.

Mercari's current Net Income (TTM) was 16,452. ==> 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.

Mercari's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -47,220. ==> Negative ==> Score 0.

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 (Mar23)
=16452/392594
=0.04190589

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar22)
=5509/332980
=0.01654454

Mercari's return on assets of this year was 0.04190589. Mercari's return on assets of last year was 0.01654454. ==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.

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.

Mercari's current Net Income (TTM) was 16,452. Mercari's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -47,220. ==> -47,220 <= 16,452 ==> 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: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=137143/435944.2
=0.31458843

Gearing (Last Year: Mar23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar22 to Mar23
=86750/359889.4
=0.24104628

Mercari's gearing of this year was 0.31458843. Mercari's gearing of last year was 0.24104628. ==> 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: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=385768/279778
=1.37883608

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=327005/259769
=1.25882996

Mercari's current ratio of this year was 1.37883608. Mercari's current ratio of last year was 1.25882996. ==> 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.

Mercari's number of shares in issue this year was 164.206. Mercari's number of shares in issue last year was 170.438. ==> 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.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=124252/180508
=0.68834622

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=111474/169781
=0.65657524

Mercari's gross margin of this year was 0.68834622. Mercari's gross margin of last year was 0.65657524. ==> 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 (Mar23)
=180508/392594
=0.45978288

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar22)
=169781/332980
=0.50988348

Mercari's asset turnover of this year was 0.45978288. Mercari's asset turnover of last year was 0.50988348. ==> 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+0+1+0+0+1+1+1+0
=5

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

Mercari has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

Mercari  (TSE:4385) 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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Mercari (TSE:4385) Business Description

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Address
6 - 10 - 1 Roppongi, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 106-6118
Mercari operates the largest C2C secondhand goods trading platform in Japan in Mercari, with over 22 million MAU and over JPY 893 billion gross merchandise value in fiscal year 2022. We estimate that it currently has over 70% market share in the C2C marketplace app market, making it the top platform in Japan. It operates a domestic fintech business and a C2C marketplace app business in the U.S. as well. Domestic business roughly accounts for over 95% of its total GMV.

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