Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Market Leader, 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 Market Leader,'s Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Market Leader, Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Market Leader,'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.
* 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.
Market Leader,'s current Net Income (TTM) was -6.26.
==> 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.
Market Leader,'s return on assets of this year was -0.20885611. Market Leader,'s return on assets of last year was -0.25430184.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Market Leader,'s current ratio of this year was 3.42002196. Market Leader,'s current ratio of last year was 3.85598742.
==> Last year's current ratio is higher ==> Score 0.
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.
Market Leader,'s number of shares in issue this year was 26.734. Market Leader,'s number of shares in issue last year was 25.447.
==> 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.
Market Leader,'s gross margin of this year was 1. Market Leader,'s gross margin of last year was 1.
==> 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
Market Leader,'s asset turnover of this year was 1.23621863. Market Leader,'s asset turnover of last year was 0.75670642.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Market Leader, has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
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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Market leader, Inc., founded in 1999 was incorporated in the State of Washington. The Company provides innovative online technology and marketing solutions for real estate professionals across the United States and Canada. The Company serves 125,000 real estate agents, brokerages and franchisors, offering complete end-to-end solutions that enable them to grow and manage their businesses. The Company's subscription-based real estate marketing software and services helps customers generate a steady stream of prospects, plus provide the systems and training they need to convert those prospects into clients. In addition, its consumer real estate sites, including www.realestate.com, give its customers access to millions of future home buyers and sellers. The Sales and marketing expenses consist mainly of advertising, as well as salaries, commissions and related expenses for its sales, marketing and customer support staff. Other expenses include credit card fees and corporate marketing and communications expenses. The Company's competitors include online companies focused on residential real estate, internet media companies, traditional real estate brokerage firms, discounted and non-traditional real estate brokerage firms, and traditional sellers of advertising to real estate professionals. Its business is subject to various laws and regulations relating to Internet commerce and telemarketing, as well as federal and state laws and regulations relating to real estate and mortgage matters.
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