* 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.
Competitive Comparison of United Overseas Insurance's Piotroski F-Score
For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, United Overseas Insurance'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.
United Overseas Insurance's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, United Overseas Insurance's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where United Overseas Insurance'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.
*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.
United Overseas Insurance's current Net Income (TTM) was 29.26.
==> 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.
United Overseas Insurance's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 22.06.
==> 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.
United Overseas Insurance's return on assets of this year was 0.05125214. United Overseas Insurance's return on assets of last year was 0.03110088.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
United Overseas Insurance's gearing of this year was 4.317E-5. United Overseas Insurance's gearing of last year was 4.747E-5.
==> 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
* 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.
United Overseas Insurance's current ratio of this year was 4.05651423. United Overseas Insurance's current ratio of last year was 3.72825995.
==> 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.
United Overseas Insurance's number of shares in issue this year was 61.155. United Overseas Insurance's number of shares in issue last year was 61.155.
==> 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.
* 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.
United Overseas Insurance's net margin of this year was 5.34270586. United Overseas Insurance's net margin of last year was 6.75249643.
==> 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
United Overseas Insurance's asset turnover of this year was 0.00959292. United Overseas Insurance's asset turnover of last year was 0.00460583.
==> 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
United Overseas Insurance has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.
United Overseas Insurance (SGX:U13) 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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United Overseas Insurance (SGX:U13) Business Description
United Overseas Insurance Ltd is a Singapore-based company engaged in underwriting of general insurance business and reinsurance. The company's general insurance products cover a broad spectrum of classes of insurance, among which are fire, marine, motor, engineering, general accident, and liability business. The company's segments include Singapore Insurance Fund (SIF), which is for insurance business relating to Singapore policies, Offshore Insurance Fund (OIF), which is for insurance business relating to offshore policies and Shareholders' Fund (SHF), which relates to the company's investment activities of its non-insurance funds. It derives key revenue from the SIF segment. The group has a business presence in Singapore, ASEAN countries and other countries.
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