Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Mobile Mini has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
The historical rank and industry rank for Mobile Mini's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Mobile Mini Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Mobile Mini'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.
Mobile Mini's current Net Income (TTM) was 74.0.
==> 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.
Mobile Mini's return on assets of this year was 0.03537567. Mobile Mini's return on assets of last year was -0.00233118.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Mobile Mini's gearing of this year was 0.46397516. Mobile Mini's gearing of last year was 0.4855619.
==> This year is lower or equal to last year. ==> Score 1.
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
Mobile Mini's current ratio of this year was 1.15322456. Mobile Mini's current ratio of last year was 1.36011833.
==> 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.
Mobile Mini's number of shares in issue this year was 44.386. Mobile Mini's number of shares in issue last year was 44.877.
==> 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.
Mobile Mini's gross margin of this year was 0.34849445. Mobile Mini's gross margin of last year was 0.35406219.
==> 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
Mobile Mini's asset turnover of this year was 0.29276605. Mobile Mini's asset turnover of last year was 0.29054647.
==> 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
Mobile Mini has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
Mobile Mini (NAS:MINI) 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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Mobile Mini Inc manufactures, rents, and sells portable storage containers. It generates the vast majority of its revenue from the rental of storage containers. The company's products are organized into two primary categories. Portable storage containers are dropped off at a customers' location by Mobile Mini and used by businesses in the retail, manufacturing, and construction industries. Tank and Pump Solutions consists of liquid and solid containers, as well as pumps and filtration equipment used by companies in the chemicals manufacturing, refining, mining, and the oil and gas industries. The company organizes itself into three segments based on geography: North America, United Kingdom, and Tank and Pump Solutions. The majority of revenue comes from the North America segment.
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