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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Mohanram G-Score : 4 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Performant Financial Mohanram G-Score?

Mohanram G-Score is a financial indicator developed by professor Partha Mohanram to help investors find the best investment opportunities in the growth stocks. Companies have higher G-score tends to generate higher return. According to his study, the best growth stocks that have a G-Score greater than 6 tend to beat the market, while those with a G-Score lower than 1 tend to have negative absolute returns.

Thus, the zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Performant Financial has an G-score of 4.

The historical rank and industry rank for Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score or its related term are showing as below:

PFMT' s Mohanram G-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2   Med: 3   Max: 5
Current: 4

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski G-score of Performant Financial was 5. The lowest was 2. And the median was 3.


Performant Financial Mohanram G-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Performant Financial's Mohanram G-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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Performant Financial Mohanram G-Score Chart

Performant Financial Annual Data
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Mohanram G-Score
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Performant Financial Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Mohanram G-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.


Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Performant Financial's Mohanram G-Score falls into.



Performant Financial Mohanram G-Score Calculation

The calculation of the Mohanram G-score consists of eight criteria. Assign one point for each criterion met, then add up all the points to get the G-Score.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

ROA % is calculated as Net Income divided by its average Total Assets over a certain period of time. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate earnings.

Score 1 if ROA > ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 2. Cash ROA

Cash ROA equals to Cash Flow from Operations divided by average Total Assets. It measures how well a company uses its asset to generate cash.

Score 1 if Cash ROA > Cash ROA Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 3. CFO and Net Income

Score 1 if CFO > Net Income, 0 otherwise.

Earnings Predictability

Question 4. Earnings Variability

Earnings Variability is measured as the variance of a firm's ROA in the past five years.

Score 1 if Earnings Variability < Earnings Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 5. Sales Growth Variability

Sales Growth Variability is measured as the 5-year variance in sales growth.

Score 1 if Sales Growth Variability < Sales Growth Variability Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Accounting Conservatism

Question 6. Research & Development Intensity

Research & Development Intensity is calcualted by Research & Development divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if Research & Development Intensity > Research & Development Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 7. CAPEX Intensity

CAPEX Intensity is calcualted by Capital Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets.

Score 1 if CAPEX Intensity > CAPEX Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

Question 8. Advertising Expenditure Intensity

Advertising Expenditure Intensity is calcualted by Advertising Expenditure divided by the beginning Total Assets. Note that Advertising Expenditure is not reported as a seperate line item for many companies, thus Selling, General, & Admin. Expense is used in this calculation.

Score 1 if Advertising Expenditure Intensity > Advertising Expenditure Intensity Industry Median, 0 otherwise.

* 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 that all the Industry Median used for comparison in his original research, are substituted with Sector Median due to the limitation of data within certain countries.

Good or high score = 6, 7, 8
Bad or low score = 0, 1

Performant Financial has an G-score of 4.

Performant Financial  (NAS:PFMT) Mohanram G-Score Explanation

Partha Mohanram is the John H. Watson Chair in Value Investing at Rotman and the Acting Vice-Dean of Research Strategy and Resources.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Separating Winners from Losers Among Low Book-to-Market Stocks Using Financial Statement Analysis".

This paper tests whether a strategy based on financial statement analysis of low book-to-market (growth) stocks is successful in differentiating between winners and losers in terms of future stock performance. Based on the research, a strategy based on buying high G-score (6, 7 or 8) firms and shorting low G-score (0 or 1) firms consistently earns significant excess returns. Further, the results do not support a risk based explanation for the book-to-market effect as the strategy returns positive returns in all years, and firms that ex-ante appear less risky have better future returns.

To conclude, one can use a modified fundamental analysis strategy (G-score) to identify mispricing and earn substantial abnormal returns.


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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Business Description

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333 North Canyons Parkway, Livermore, CA, USA, 94551
Performant Financial Corp provides technology-enabled recovery and related analytics services in the United States. The company provides its services on an outsourced basis where it handles many or all aspects of its clients' recovery processes. It uses technology-enabled services platform to provide recovery and analytics services in a range of markets for the identification and recovery of student loans, improper healthcare payments and delinquent state tax and federal treasury receivables. The services are primarily offered across a broad range of government and private clients in several markets. The revenue generated here is generally on success-based as it earns fees based on a percentage of the aggregate amount of funds that it enables the clients to recover.
Executives
Prescott Group Capital Management, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH UTICA, SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6429
Rohit Ramchandani officer: Chief Financial Officer 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Ecmc Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 1 IMATION PLACE, BLDG 2, SUITE 392A, OAKDALE MN 55128
Pcp Managers Gp, Llc 10 percent owner FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Dcs Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Eric Yanagi director 400 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD, SUITE 526, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Pcp Managers, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Partners Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Investors Ii. L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 400 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
James Lacamp director 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Lp 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Master Fund Gp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Ii Lp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Phil Frohlich 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529