Gold Fields Ltd Stock Piotroski F Score
| GFI Stock | USD 16.96 0.07 0.41% |
Gold | Piotroski F Score |
At this time, it appears that Gold Fields' Piotroski F Score is Strong. Although some professional money managers and academia have recently criticized Piotroski F-Score model, we still consider it an effective method of predicting the state of the financial strength of any organization that is not predisposed to accounting gimmicks and manipulations. Using this score on the criteria to originate an efficient long-term portfolio can help investors filter out the purely speculative stocks or equities playing fundamental games by manipulating their earnings..
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Piotroski F Score - Strong
| Current Return On Assets | Positive |
| Change in Return on Assets | Increased |
| Cash Flow Return on Assets | Positive |
| Current Quality of Earnings (accrual) | Improving |
| Asset Turnover Growth | Increase |
| Current Ratio Change | Decrease |
| Long Term Debt Over Assets Change | Higher Leverage |
| Change In Outstending Shares | Decrease |
| Change in Gross Margin | Increase |
Gold Fields Piotroski F Score Drivers
The critical factor to consider when applying the Piotroski F Score to Gold Fields is to make sure Gold is not a subject of accounting manipulations and runs a healthy internal audit department. So, if Gold Fields' auditors report directly to the board (not management), the managers will be reluctant to manipulate simply due to the fear of punishment. On the other hand, the auditors will be free to investigate the ledgers properly because they know that the board has their back. Below are the main accounts that are used in the Piotroski F Score model. By analyzing the historical trends of the mains drivers, investors can determine if Gold Fields' financial numbers are properly reported.
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| Asset Turnover | 0.61 | 0.5471 |
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| Gross Profit Margin | 0.43 | 0.367 |
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| Total Current Liabilities | 1.6 B | 1.5 B |
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| Non Current Liabilities Total | 1.3 B | 2.1 B |
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| Total Assets | 4.7 B | 8.2 B |
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| Total Current Assets | 1.8 B | 1.7 B |
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| Total Cash From Operating Activities | 1.7 B | 1.6 B |
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Gold Fields F Score Driver Matrix
One of the toughest challenges investors face today is learning how to quickly synthesize historical financial statements and information provided by the company, SEC reporting, and various external parties in order to project the various growth rates. Understanding the correlation between Gold Fields' different financial indicators related to revenue, expenses, operating profit, and net earnings helps investors identify and prioritize their investing strategies towards Gold Fields in a much-optimized way.
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About Gold Fields Piotroski F Score
F-Score is one of many stock grading techniques developed by Joseph Piotroski, a professor of accounting at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. It was published in 2002 under the paper titled Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers. Piotroski F Score is based on binary analysis strategy in which stocks are given one point for passing 9 very simple fundamental tests, and zero point otherwise. According to Mr. Piotroski's analysis, his F-Score binary model can help to predict the performance of low price-to-book stocks.Common Stock Shares Outstanding |
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Gold Fields Current Valuation Drivers
We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of Gold Fields from analyzing Gold Fields' financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess Gold Fields' ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of Gold Fields' important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (projected) | ||
| Market Cap | 5.5B | 8.1B | 9.8B | 9.2B | 12.9B | 13.6B | |
| Enterprise Value | 7.1B | 9.2B | 10.7B | 9.9B | 13.9B | 14.6B |
About Gold Fields Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Gold Fields Ltd's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Gold Fields using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Gold Fields Ltd based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Is Gold Fields' industry expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Gold Fields. If investors know Gold will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Gold Fields listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth (0.10) | Dividend Share 0.407 | Earnings Share 0.79 | Revenue Per Share 2.519 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.014 |
The market value of Gold Fields is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Gold that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Gold Fields' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Gold Fields' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Gold Fields' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Gold Fields' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Gold Fields' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Gold Fields is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Gold Fields' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.