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Fairway Group Holdings (Fairway Group Holdings) Altman Z-Score : 0.23 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Fairway Group Holdings Altman Z-Score?

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.

Fairway Group Holdings has a Altman Z-Score of 0.23, 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 Fairway Group Holdings's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:


Fairway Group Holdings Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Fairway Group Holdings'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.

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Fairway Group Holdings Altman Z-Score Chart

Fairway Group Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15
Altman Z-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 2.19 0.85 1.08 0.91

Fairway Group Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar10 Mar11 Jun11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15
Altman Z-Score Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.66 0.91 0.60 0.38 0.28

Competitive Comparison of Fairway Group Holdings's Altman Z-Score

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Fairway Group Holdings'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.


Fairway Group Holdings's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Fairway Group Holdings's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Fairway Group Holdings's Altman Z-Score falls into.



Fairway Group Holdings 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.

Fairway Group Holdings'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*0.0265+1.4*-1.2735+3.3*-0.0685+0.6*0.0006+1.0*2.2095
=0.23

* 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.

Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015:
Total Assets was $346.0 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $78.0 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $68.9 Mil.
Retained Earnings was $-440.6 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was -8.793 + -11.399 + -11.776 + -7.307 = $-39.3 Mil.
Interest Expense was -3.65 + -3.745 + -3.753 + -4.416 = $-15.6 Mil.
Revenue was 191.683 + 179.829 + 193.774 + 199.089 = $764.4 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was $0.2 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $397.1 Mil.

* Note that for stock reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data.

X1=Working Capital/Total Assets
=(Total Current Assets - Total Current Liabilities)/Total Assets
=(78.031 - 68.867)/345.957
=0.0265

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=-440.584/345.957
=-1.2735

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(-39.275 - -15.564)/345.957
=-0.0685

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=0.220/397.078
=0.0006

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=764.375/345.957
=2.2095

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Distress Zones - 1.81 < Grey Zones < 2.99 - Safe Zones

Fairway Group Holdings has a Altman Z-Score of 0.23 indicating it is in Distress Zones.

Study by Altman found that companies that are in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in two years.


Fairway Group Holdings  (OTCPK:FWMHQ) 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.

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Fairway Group Holdings (Fairway Group Holdings) Business Description

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Fairway Group Holdings Corp along with its subsidiaries operates in the retail food industry. The company sells fresh, natural and organic products, prepared foods and hard to find specialty and gourmet offerings, along with a full assortment of conventional groceries. Its perishable product categories, which include producing, natural and organic, deli, specialty, cheese, butcher, seafood, bakery, coffee and kosher foods. The non-perishable product categories consist of conventional groceries as well as specialty foods.
Executives
Edward C Arditte officer: Co-President and CFO 9 ROSZEL ROAD, PRINCETON NJ 08540
Linda Siluk officer: VP Finance and CAO C/O FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP., 2284 12TH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10027
Stephen Key director 66 EAST WADSWORTH PARK DRIVE, DRAPER UT 84020
William E Sanford officer: Interim CEO C/O FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP. 2284 12TH AVENUE NEW YORK NY 10027
Robert Magnus director 2366 BERNVILLE ROAD, READING PA 19605

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