Naturally, the formula isn’t perfect. The Altman Z-Score doesn’t do the best job accounting for deferred revenue, which can make software companies in particular look worse off than they really are.

Forecasting fiscal stability in municipalities is increasingly critical as public entities face unprecedented financial challenges. Recent research has adapted Altman's renowned Z-Score model — ...

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 ...

For decades a simple mathematical formula called the Z-Score has been the industry standard for predicting the likelihood that a company will file for bankruptcy protection. But after 40 years is the ...

The dividend stock subset improves the total return and lowers the risk measured in volatility (StdDev = standard deviation of monthly returns). The payout ratio is the amount of dividends paid to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Naturally, the formula isn’t perfect. The Altman Z-Score doesn’t do the best job accounting for deferred revenue, which can make ...