Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Top Standard 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 Top Standard's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
HKSE:08510'
s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2 Med: 4 Max: 5
Current: 4
During the past 8 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Top Standard was 5. The lowest was 2. And the median was 4.
Top Standard Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Top Standard'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.
Competitive Comparison of Top Standard's Piotroski F-Score
For the Restaurants subindustry, Top Standard'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.
Top Standard's Piotroski F-Score Distribution in the Restaurants Industry
For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Top Standard's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Top Standard'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.
Top Standard's current Net Income (TTM) was 6.01.
==> 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.
Top Standard's return on assets of this year was 0.59424446. Top Standard's return on assets of last year was -0.4492129.
==> This year is higher. ==> Score 1.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Top Standard's gearing of this year was 0.42229518. Top Standard's gearing of last year was 0.3065737.
==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.
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
Top Standard's current ratio of this year was 0.20342184. Top Standard's current ratio of last year was 0.13970213.
==> 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.
Top Standard's number of shares in issue this year was 139.149. Top Standard's number of shares in issue last year was 138.24.
==> 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.
Top Standard's gross margin of this year was 0.10019841. Top Standard's gross margin of last year was 0.25496795.
==> 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
Top Standard's asset turnover of this year was 0.8971519. Top Standard's asset turnover of last year was 0.74699228.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
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Top Standard has an F-score of 4 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Top Standard (HKSE:08510) 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.
Top Standard Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
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Top Standard Corp is an investment holding company and the Group is a restaurant group that operates restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and South-east Asia and online sales of wines. The group has two operating and reportable segments: catering service and online sales of wines. The group has been operating new restaurants Sushi MEW (Hong Kong) and Sushi MEW (Singapore). The company derives the majority of its revenue from food catering services which include food and beverage served. The group operates in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It generates the majority of its revenue from Hong Kong.
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