The Montier C-Score is a way identify companies that have an increased risk of earnings manipulation. James Montier aimed to create a simple scoring system that would highlight such companies and the C-Score was the result. This is measured on a TTM basis.
An analogue to the Piotroski, it measures six inputs in a binary fashion to create a score between zero and six.
Inputs include: the divergence between net income and cash-flow, increasing days sales outstanding, increasing days sales of inventory, increasing current assets to revenues, declining depreciation relative to PPE and high total asset growth.
Montier found that companies with high C-Scores under performed the market by 8% per annum, generating a mere 1.8% return between 1993 and 2007.
He recommended using it in tandem with a high valuation measure.
Ticker | Name | Montier C-Score | StockRank™ |
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LON:BGO | Bango | 0.00 | 7 |
LON:BBB | Bigblu Broadband | 0.00 | 26 |
LON:MTRO | Metro Bank Holdings | 0.00 | 49 |
LON:GROW | Molten Ventures | 0.00 | 65 |
LON:PAT | Panthera Resources | 0.00 | 8 |