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.
Derma Sciences has a Altman Z-Score of 1.08, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.
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 Derma Sciences's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Derma Sciences Altman Z-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Derma Sciences'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 Derma Sciences's Altman Z-Score
For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Derma Sciences'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.
Derma Sciences's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Derma Sciences's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Derma Sciences's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Derma Sciences 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.
Derma Sciences'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
*
0.0867
+
1.4
*
-0.7917
+
3.3
*
-0.0567
+
0.6
*
2.8897
+
1.0
*
0.5382
=
1.08
* 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.
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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Derma Sciences (Derma Sciences) Business Description
Derma Sciences Inc was incorporated on September 10, 1984. The Company is a tissue regeneration company engaged in three segments of the wound care marketplace: pharmaceutical wound care, advanced wound care and traditional wound care products. The Company has one drug candidate that initiated its Phase 3 study. The Company maintains manufacturing facilities in Toronto, Canada and Nantong, China and an established network of third party suppliers for its products. Its products are sold through distributors to health care providers such as wound care centers, extended care facilities, acute care facilities, home health care agencies and physicians' offices. Some of its products are sold through retail channels to care givers. The Company markets its products through direct sales representatives in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and through independent distributors within other select international markets. In Pharmaceutical Wound Care, the DSC127 product is in clinical trial for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. The Phase 3 clinical trial for diabetic foot ulcers is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. In addition to the diabetic foot ulcer indication, the Company has begun preclinical testing for scar reduction. The product lines in Advanced Wound Care include MEDIHONEY, TCC-EZ, AMNIOEXCEL and AMNIOMATRIX, XTRASORB, BIOGUARD, and ALGICELL AG. The Traditional Wound Care line consists of gauze sponges and bandages, non-adherent impregnated dressings, retention devices, paste bandages and other compression devices. It also manufactures and market adhesive bandages and related first aid products for the medical, industrial, private label and retail markets. It markets a line of wound closure strips, nasal tube fasteners and a variety of catheter fasteners to doctors, clinics, nursing homes, hospitals and other institutions. In addition, the Company owns or licenses over 50 U.S. patents, corresponding foreign patents and patent applications. The patents relating to the DSC127, MEDIHONEY, BIOGUARD, AMNIOEXCEL and AMNIOMATRIX technologies are held under license agreements of indefinite duration. It is subject to the regulation regarding occupational safety, laboratory practices, environmental protection and hazardous substance control and may be subject to other present and future U.S. and foreign regulations.
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