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Digging deeper, we can take a quick look at the Q.i. The six month price index is simply measured by dividing the current share price by the share price six months ago. A ratio above one indicates an increase in share price over the six month period. The higher the ratio, the better as a higher score indicates a more stable return on invested capital. Checking on historical volatility can help gauge how much the stock price has fluctuated over the given period of time. Looking at some alternate time periods, the 12 month price index is 1.40152, the 24 month is 1.97165, and the 36 month is 2.55842. The company now has an FCF quality score of 1.946111.
Interested investors may be tracking the Piotroski F-Score. The F-Score was developed to help find company stocks that have solid fundamentals, and to separate out weaker companies. To arrive at this score, Piotroski gave one point for every piece of criteria met out of the nine considered. A single point is assigned to each test that a stock passes. Generally, a stock scoring an 8 or 9 would be viewed as strong while a stock with a score from 0-2 would be considered weak. The company now has an FCF quality score of 0.283483. (TSXV:SGX). The name now has a score of 50.00000. In terms of operating efficiency, one point was given for higher gross margin compared to the previous year, and one point was given for a higher asset turnover ratio compared to the previous year. This is using a scale from 0 to 100 where a lower score may indicate an undervalued company and a higher score would represent an expensive or possibly overvalued company. The Q.i. Value of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC is 37.00000. (Liquidity) Value. The InterGroup Corporation has a current Q.i. value of 15.00000. The Q.i. value may help investors discover companies that are undervalued.
The MF Rank (aka the Magic Formula) is a formula that pinpoints a valuable company trading at a good price. (TSXV:SGX) is -0.616315. The Return on Invested Capital is a ratio that determines whether a company is profitable or not. Barratt Developments plc (LSE:BDEV) now has a Piotroski Score of 5. The score is a number between one and one hundred (1 being best and 100 being the worst). The Magic Formula was introduced in a book written by Joel Greenblatt, entitled, "The Little Book that Beats the Market". The score is derived from five different valuation ratios including price to book value, price to sales, EBITDA to Enterprise Vale, price to cash flow and price to earnings. The ERP5 of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC (LSE:HILS) is 6557. Investors look at the Volatility 12m to determine if a company has a low volatility percentage or not over the course of a year. Value ranks companies using four ratios. The Price Range of J Sainsbury plc (LSE:SBRY) over the past 52 weeks is 0.981. The 52-week range can be found in the stock's quote summary.
This is calculated by subtracting FCF from the previous year from FCF this year, divided by FCF from last year. The FCF Growth of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC (LSE:HILS) is 5.393387. FCF measures the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for capital expenditures, and it may be a useful indicator for assessing financial performance. Monitoring FCF information may help provide some excellent insight on the financial health of a specific company. Presently, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. has an FCF score of 0.426235.
The VC1 is calculated using the price to book value, price to sales, EBITDA to EV, price to cash flow, and price to earnings.
