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Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust (Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust) Piotroski F-Score : 5 (As of May. 03, 2024)


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What is Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust 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

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust 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 Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

BTZ' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 5   Max: 8
Current: 5

During the past 7 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust was 8. The lowest was 4. And the median was 5.


Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust'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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Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust Piotroski F-Score Chart

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust Annual Data
Trend Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 8.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 5.00

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust Semi-Annual Data
Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.00 - 4.00 - 5.00

Competitive Comparison of Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's Piotroski F-Score

For the Asset Management subindustry, Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust'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.


Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust'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 (Dec23) TTM:Last Year (Dec22) TTM:
Net Income was $132.2 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was $97.4 Mil.
Revenue was $132.8 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Dec22)
to the end of this year (Dec23) was (1716.078 + 1765.906) / 2 = $1740.992 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Dec22) was $1,716.1 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $590.9 Mil.
Total Assets was $1,765.9 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $683.8 Mil.
Net Income was $-280.0 Mil.

Revenue was $-279.6 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Dec21)
to the end of last year (Dec22) was (2010.112 + 1716.078) / 2 = $1863.095 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Dec21) was $2,010.1 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $589.3 Mil.
Total Assets was $1,716.1 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $670.2 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.

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current Net Income (TTM) was 132.2. ==> 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.

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 97.4. ==> 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.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec22)
=132.158/1716.078
=0.07701165

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Dec21)
=-279.996/2010.112
=-0.13929373

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's return on assets of this year was 0.07701165. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's return on assets of last year was -0.13929373. ==> 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.

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current Net Income (TTM) was 132.2. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 97.4. ==> 97.4 <= 132.2 ==> 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: Dec23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec22 to Dec23
=590.859/1740.992
=0.33938065

Gearing (Last Year: Dec22)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Dec21 to Dec22
=589.324/1863.095
=0.31631452

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's gearing of this year was 0.33938065. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's gearing of last year was 0.31631452. ==> 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

* Note that for banks and insurance companies, there's no Total Current Assets and Total Current Liabilities reported. Thus, we use Total Assets and Total Liabilities to calculate current ratio for banks and insurance companies.

Current Ratio (This Year: Dec23)=Total Assets/Total Liabilities
=1765.906/683.814
=2.58243616

Current Ratio (Last Year: Dec22)=Total Assets/Total Liabilities
=1716.078/670.192
=2.56057667

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current ratio of this year was 2.58243616. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's current ratio of last year was 2.56057667. ==> 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.

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's number of shares in issue this year was 93.729. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's number of shares in issue last year was 93.644. ==> 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.

* Note that for banks and insurance companies, there's no Gross Profit reported. Thus, we use net income instead of gross profit and calculate Net Margin for this score.

Net Margin (This Year: TTM)=Net Income/Revenue
=132.158/132.835
=0.99490345

Net Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Net Income/Revenue
=-279.996/-279.586
=1.00146645

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's net margin of this year was 0.99490345. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's net margin of last year was 1.00146645. ==> Last year's net 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

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Dec22)
=132.835/1716.078
=0.07740616

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Dec21)
=-279.586/2010.112
=-0.13908976

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's asset turnover of this year was 0.07740616. Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust's asset turnover of last year was -0.13908976. ==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=1+1+1+0+0+1+0+0+1
=5

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

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

Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust  (NYSE:BTZ) 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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Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust (Blackrock Credit Allocationome Trust) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE, USA, 19809
Blackrock Credit Allocation Income Trust is a diversified, closed-end Trust engaged in providing investment advisory and risk management solutions. Its investment objective of seeking current income, current gains, and capital appreciation. The company invests under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its assets in credit-related securities, including, but not limited to, investment-grade corporate bonds, high high-yields, bank loans, preferred securities or convertible bonds, or derivatives with economic characteristics similar to these credit-related securities.
Executives
Arthur Philip Steinmetz director 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Aaron David Wasserman officer: Chief Compliance Officer 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Charley Hung other: Portfolio Manager 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Blackrock (singapore) Ltd. other: Investment Adviser 40 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10022
Lorenzo Flores director 2100 LOGIC DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95124
James Phillip Holloman director P.O. BOX 625737, 6800 CINTAS BOULEVARD, CINCINNATI OH 45262
Stayce D. Harris director 1999 S. BASCOM AVE., SUITE 700, CAMPBELL CA 95008
Trent Walker officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O PIMCO, 650 NEWPORT CENTER DRIVE, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Blackrock Internationl, Ltd. other: Investment Adviser 800 SCUDDERS MILL ROAD, PLAINSBORO NJ 08536
Stephan Bassas other: Portfolio Manager 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Jeffrey Cucunato other: Portfolio Manager 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Mitchell Garfin other: Portfolio Manager 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Frank Fabozzi director 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Robert Glenn Hubbard director 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
Richard Cavanagh director 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809

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