Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Lexmark International has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lexmark International's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Lexmark International Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lexmark International'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.
Lexmark International's current Net Income (TTM) was -67.
==> 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.
Lexmark International's return on assets of this year was -0.01687128. Lexmark International's return on assets of last year was -0.01561309.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Lexmark International's gearing of this year was 0.26738993. Lexmark International's gearing of last year was 0.29381195.
==> 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
Lexmark International's current ratio of this year was 0.88413291. Lexmark International's current ratio of last year was 0.97962574.
==> 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.
Lexmark International's number of shares in issue this year was 64.2. Lexmark International's number of shares in issue last year was 61.7.
==> 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.
Lexmark International's gross margin of this year was 0.39006175. Lexmark International's gross margin of last year was 0.3803567.
==> 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
Lexmark International's asset turnover of this year was 0.87406794. Lexmark International's asset turnover of last year was 1.0179.
==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.
Evaluation
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Lexmark International has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Lexmark International (NYSE:LXK) 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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Lexmark International (Lexmark International) Business Description
Lexmark International Inc is a Delaware corporation, formed in July 1990. On November 15, 1995, it completed its initial public offering of Class A Common Stock. The Company is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing, imaging, device management, managed print services (MPS), document workflow and, more recently, business process and content management solutions. The Company operates in the office printing and imaging, enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), document output management (DOM), intelligent data capture and search software markets. Its products include laser printers and multifunction devices, dot matrix printers and the associated supplies/solutions/services, as well as ECM, BPM, DOM, intelligent data capture, search and web-based document imaging and workflow software solutions and services. It develops and ownsof the technology for its printing and imaging products and its software related to MPS and content and process management solutions. The Company is managed along two segments: Imaging Solutions and Services (ISS) and Perceptive Software. ISS offers a portfolio of monochrome and color laser printers and laser MFPs, as well as supplies, software applications, software solutions and MPS to help businesses efficiently capture, manage and access information. ISS laser products are core building blocks for enabling information on demand. They are designed to enable intelligent document capture in addition to delivering high-quality printed output on a variety of media types and sizes. When combined with document management and business process workflow software, from Perceptive Software, these products accelerate productivity by connecting people with the information they need. Its products include Monochrome Laser, Color Laser, Inkjet MFPs and AIOs, Dot Matrix Products, and MPS and Customer Support Services. Its competitors in this segment include Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Brother, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Okidata and Samsung. ISS operates manufacturing control centers in Lexington, Kentucky; Shenzhen, China; and Geneva, Switzerland; and has company-owned manufacturing sites in Boulder, Colorado and Juarez, Mexico. The Perceptive Software sgment offers a complete suite of ECM, BPM, DOM, intelligent data capture, search software and medical imaging VNA software products and solutions. Perceptive Software capture, content, search and BPM software products and solutions, enable users to capture, manage, and collaborate on important documents, information, and business processes, protect data integrity throughout its lifecycle and access precise content in the context of the users everyday business processes. These components are developed and maintained by Perceptive Software. Its solutions are Designed from Perceptive Softwares software platform, including the capture, content, process and search suites, Perceptive Software offers industry specific solutions of
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