The Altman Z-Score is a model designed to predict the likelihood of a company going bankrupt within the next two years. Created by American finance professor Edward Altman in 1968, the model is specifically designed for publicly traded manufacturing companies with assets greater than $1 million.
Alteva has a Altman Z-Score of 2.00, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that Alteva is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may face bankrupcy risk.
The zones of discrimination were as such:
When Altman Z-Score <= 1.8, it is in Distress Zones.
When Altman Z-Score >= 3, it is in Safe Zones.
When Altman Z-Score is between 1.8 and 3, it is in Grey Zones.
The historical rank and industry rank for Alteva's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Alteva Altman Z-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Alteva's Altman Z-Score can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Telecom Services subindustry, Alteva's Altman Z-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Altman Z-Score data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Alteva's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry
For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Alteva's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alteva's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Alteva Altman Z-Score Calculation
Altman Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.
Alteva's Altman Z-Score for today is calculated with this formula:
Z
=
1.2
*
X1
+
1.4
*
X2
+
3.3
*
X3
+
0.6
*
X4
+
1.0
*
X5
=
1.2
*
0.1204
+
1.4
*
0.4528
+
3.3
*
-0.1473
+
0.6
*
1.5563
+
1.0
*
0.7736
=
2.00
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency. GuruFocus does not calculate Altman Z-Score when X4 or X5 value is 0.
Distress Zones - 1.81 < Grey Zones < 2.99 - Safe Zones
Alteva has a Altman Z-Score of 2.00 indicating it is in Grey Zones.
Study by Altman found that companies that are in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in two years.
Alteva (AMEX:ALTV) Altman Z-Score Explanation
X1: The Working Capital/Total Assets (WC/TA) ratio is a measure of the net liquid assets of the firm relative to the total capitalization. Working capital is defined as the difference between current assets and current liabilities. Ordinarily, a firm experiencing consistent operating losses will have shrinking current assets in relation to total assets. Altman found this one proved to be the most valuable liquidity ratio comparing with the current ratio and the quick ratio. This is however the least significant of the five factors.
X2: Retained Earnings/Total Assets: the RE/TA ratio measures the leverage of a firm. Retained earnings is the account which reports the total amount of reinvested earnings and/or losses of a firm over its entire life. Those firms with high RE, relative to TA, have financed their assets through retention of profits and have not utilized as much debt.
X3, Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets (EBIT/TA): This ratio is a measure of the true productivity of the firm's assets, independent of any tax or leverage factors. Since a firm's ultimate existence is based on the earning power of its assets, this ratio appears to be particularly appropriate for studies dealing with corporate failure. This ratio continually outperforms other profitability measures, including cash flow.
X4, Market Value of Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities (MVE/TL): The measure shows how much the firm's assets can decline in value (measured by market value of equity plus debt) before the liabilities exceed the assets and the firm becomes insolvent.
X5, Revenue/Total Assets (S/TA): The capital-turnover ratio is a standard financial ratio illustrating the sales generating ability of the firm's assets.
Altman Z-Score does not apply to financial companies.
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Alteva Inc was incorporated in New York on January 16, 1902. The Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a provider of hosted Unified Communications as a Service "UCaaS" that enhances business productivity and efficiency. Its UCaaS solution integrates and optimizes cloud-based technologies and business applications to deliver a comprehensive voice, video and collaboration service for the office and mobile workforce. Its cloud-based UCaaS solutions are focused on medium, large and enterprise markets, which are defined as 20-500 users per location. The Company also operates as a regional Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier "ILEC" in southern Orange County, New York and northern New Jersey. The Company operates in two segments; Unified Communications and Telephone. Its Telephone segment provides local and toll telephone service, high-speed broadband and fiber Internet access services and satellite video services to residential and business customers. Its Unified Communications Solutions offers a comprehensive managed solution including hosted voice and hybrid Session Initiation Protocol trunks, with integrated instant messaging, presence, unified messaging and video along with local, long distance and international communications services. Its Business Productivity Application integration is fully integrated with a variety of business productivity applications including Microsoft Office, and Google Apps for Business. Its Audio Conferencing and Web Collaboration Solutions offers a range of collaboration solutions including screen sharing and group audio and web conferencing for over 3,000 participants. Its Access Solutions offers a range of access solutions for businesses ranging from T1s to fiber connections and MPLS circuits and it works closely with various providers to coordinate installation and support the connectivity. Its Wholesale Services offers a packaged solution including infrastructure and services. Its Network Design and Management develop and support the implementation of customized network and voice solutions. Its Local network services include traditional dial tone that is used to make or to receive voice, fax or analog modem calls from a residence or business. Its Network access services connect a customer's telephone or other equipment to the transmission facilities of other carriers that provides long distance and other communications services. Its directory service group publishes and sells yellow and white page advertising in both print and online. The Company competes with both premise-based voice and video providers such as Avaya and Cisco, as well as cloud-based voice and UC providers such as 8x8, Inc., Verizon and Comcast; its directory services competes with Yellow Book, Verizon, Frontier, and CenturyLink; and it broadband internet and dial-up internet services competes with Cablevision in New York and Service Electric in New Jersey.
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