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.
Medivation has a Altman Z-Score of 7.46, indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Altman Z-Score is strong.
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 Medivation's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Medivation Altman Z-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Medivation'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.
Competitive Comparison of Medivation's Altman Z-Score
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Medivation'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.
Medivation's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Medivation's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Medivation's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Medivation 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.
Medivation'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
*
0.2805
+
1.4
*
-0.1283
+
3.3
*
-0.1583
+
0.6
*
12.0029
+
1.0
*
0.6189
=
7.46
* 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
Medivation has a Altman Z-Score of 7.46 indicating it is in Safe Zones.
Study by Altman found that companies that are in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in two years.
Medivation (NAS:MDVN) 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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Medivation Inc was formed in Delaware in October 1995. The Company is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the rapid development of novel small molecule drugs to treat diseases for which there are limited treatment options. Together with its collaboration partner Astellas Pharma Inc., or Astellas, the Company is developing XTANDI enzalutamide capsules. Together with Astellas, it is also conducting multiple trials of enzalutamide in earlier prostate cancer disease states, including the Phase 3 PREVAIL trial in patients with mCRPC who have not received chemotherapy, or pre-chemotherapy mCRPC patients, and in patients with breast cancer. Based on the positive results of the AFFIRM trial, the Company has exercised its right under its collaboration agreement with Astellas to co-promote XTANDI in the U.S., should it receive marketing approval. Their subsidiaries are Medivation Prostate Therapeutics Inc or MPT, Medivation Neurology Inc or MNI, Medivation Technologies Inc, or MTI, Medivation Field Solutions, Inc., or MFSI, and Medivation Services, Inc., or MSI. MPT holds the intellectual property rights covering XTANDI. MNI holds the intellectual property rights covering dimebon, which was in development for Alzheimer's disease and Huntington disease under its former collaboration with Pfizer. MTI holds the intellectual property rights covering its early-stage technologies. MFSI provides commercialization services to the Company, and MSI provides research and development services. It has received "Fast Track" designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the post-docetaxel indication. The Company is conducting this program in collaboration with Astellas. The Company is subject to extensive regulation by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or the FDC Act, and other federal and state statutes and regulations, govern, among other things, the research, development, testing, manufacture, storage, recordkeeping, approval, labeling, promotion and marketing, distribution, post-approval monitoring and reporting, sampling, and import and export of pharmaceutical products.
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