High Liner Foods Stock Piotroski F Score

HLF Stock  CAD 16.73  0.98  6.22%   
This module uses fundamental data of High Liner to approximate its Piotroski F score. High Liner F Score is determined by combining nine binary scores representing 3 distinct fundamental categories of High Liner Foods. These three categories are profitability, efficiency, and funding. Some research analysts and sophisticated value traders use Piotroski F Score to find opportunities outside of the conventional market and financial statement analysis.They believe that some of the new information about High Liner financial position does not get reflected in the current market share price suggesting a possibility of arbitrage. Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in High Liner Foods. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.
  
At this time, High Liner's Debt Ratio is very stable compared to the past year. As of the 27th of February 2025, Cash Flow To Debt Ratio is likely to grow to 0.85, while Short and Long Term Debt Total is likely to drop about 189 M. At this time, High Liner's Capex To Depreciation is very stable compared to the past year. As of the 27th of February 2025, EV To Sales is likely to grow to 0.48, while Dividend Yield is likely to drop 0.02.
At this time, it appears that High Liner's Piotroski F Score is Inapplicable. 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..
6.0
Piotroski F Score - Inapplicable
Current Return On Assets

Positive

Focus
Change in Return on Assets

Decreased

Focus
Cash Flow Return on Assets

Positive

Focus
Current Quality of Earnings (accrual)

Improving

Focus
Asset Turnover Growth

Increase

Focus
Current Ratio Change

Decrease

Focus
Long Term Debt Over Assets Change

Higher Leverage

Focus
Change In Outstending Shares

Decrease

Focus
Change in Gross Margin

Increase

Focus

High Liner Piotroski F Score Drivers

The critical factor to consider when applying the Piotroski F Score to High Liner is to make sure High is not a subject of accounting manipulations and runs a healthy internal audit department. So, if High Liner's 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 High Liner's financial numbers are properly reported.
Current ValueLast YearChange From Last Year 10 Year Trend
Asset Turnover1.671.49
Moderately Up
Pretty Stable
Gross Profit Margin0.240.23
Sufficiently Up
Very volatile
Net Debt184.9 M283.2 M
Way Down
Very volatile
Total Current Liabilities126.4 M187.9 M
Way Down
Pretty Stable
Non Current Liabilities Total174.5 M328 M
Way Down
Pretty Stable
Total AssetsB959.6 M
Sufficiently Up
Slightly volatile
Total Current Assets503.9 M479.9 M
Sufficiently Up
Slightly volatile

High Liner Foods 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 High Liner's different financial indicators related to revenue, expenses, operating profit, and net earnings helps investors identify and prioritize their investing strategies towards High Liner in a much-optimized way.

About High Liner 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.

Book Value Per Share

10.71

At this time, High Liner's Book Value Per Share is very stable compared to the past year.

High Liner Current Valuation Drivers

We derive many important indicators used in calculating different scores of High Liner from analyzing High Liner's financial statements. These drivers represent accounts that assess High Liner's ability to generate profits relative to its revenue, operating costs, and shareholders' equity. Below are some of High Liner's important valuation drivers and their relationship over time.
202020212022202320242025 (projected)
Market Cap294.9M399.2M342.7M303.5M273.2M161.9M
Enterprise Value565.8M664.9M723.2M549.8M494.8M296.4M

About High Liner Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze High Liner Foods's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of High Liner using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of High Liner Foods 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.
Please read more on our fundamental analysis page.

Pair Trading with High Liner

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if High Liner position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in High Liner will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving against High Stock

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to High Liner could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace High Liner when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back High Liner - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling High Liner Foods to buy it.
The correlation of High Liner is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as High Liner moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if High Liner Foods moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for High Liner can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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Other Information on Investing in High Stock

High Liner financial ratios help investors to determine whether High Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in High with respect to the benefits of owning High Liner security.