Since its debut in 1968, the Altman Z-Score has been followed religiously by analysts worldwide due to its ease of calculation and relative accuracy at predicting bankruptcies (72% in its initial test ...

Developed by NYU Stern financial economist Edward Altman, the Altman Z-score predicts the likelihood of a company of going bankrupt within a two-year period. Unlike the Piotroski F-score, which only ...

The Altman z-score takes five basic financial ratios from a company's balance sheet and uses them to assess its performance strength. These are the ratios: A - working capital / total assets. B - ...

Business distress and bankruptcy can spell disappointment or even disaster for investors – and at a time of economic uncertainty, making that critical call between risk and reward is an increasingly ...

Given the ongoing panic in coal shares, I decided to do a series which will look at several coal stocks using the Altman Z-score. The purpose will be to get a feel of the relative risk with each coal ...

This article uses a modified Altman Z-score to predict financial distress within the nursing home industry. The modified Altman Z-score model uses multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to examine ...

The New York University professor who developed one of the best-known formulas for predicting corporate insolvencies has a warning for U.S. credit investors: this year’s spate of “mega” bankruptcies ...

And Insider Monkey offered this chart showing that declines in Google searches of Nouriel Roubini have been a bullish indicator for stocks: Which one is right? My gut feeling is to lean toward the ...

Legendary bankruptcy expert Dr. Edward Altman cautioned that this benign credit cycle — characterized by low default rates, low yields, low spreads, and lots of liquidity — could come to an abrupt end ...

Devised in the 1960s by Edward Altman, a Z score indicates the probability of a company entering bankruptcy within the next two years. The higher the Z score, the lower the probability of bankruptcy.