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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Probability of Financial Distress (%) : 0.05% (As of Apr. 27, 2024)


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What is Performant Financial Probability of Financial Distress (%)?

Probability of Financial Distress (%) measures the probability that a company will go bankrupt in the upcoming year given its current financial position. A higher ratio indicates a larger probability of bankruptcy for the company, while a lower ratio indicates a healthier fundamental. As of today, Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%) is 0.05%.

Like the Altman Z-Score, the PFD measures a company's bankruptcy risk. However, the main drawback of the Z-score is it does not apply to banks and insurance companies. According to Investopedia, the concept of "working capital" does not apply to banks and insurance companies, as financial institutions do not have typical current assets or current liabilities like inventories or accounts payable.


Competitive Comparison of Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%)

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%), along with its competitors' market caps and Probability of Financial Distress (%) 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.


Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%) Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Performant Financial's Probability of Financial Distress (%) falls into.



Performant Financial Probability of Financial Distress (%) Calculation

Probability of Financial Distress (%) (PFD) was developed by John Campbell, Jens Hilscher and Jan Szilagyi in their Search of Distress Risk. It measures the probability that a company will go bankrupt within the next 12 months given its current financial position.

The Probability of Financial Distress (%) was obtained by a logit probability model based on eight explanatory variables. The logit formula to compute the probability of financial distress (LPFD) is given below:

LPFD= -20.12 * NIMTAAVG + 1.60 * TLMTA - 7.88 * EXRETAVG + 1.55 * SIGMA - 0.005 * RSIZE - 2.27 * CASHMTA + 0.070 * MB - 0.09 * PRICE -8.87
=-7.62

The Probability of Financial Distress (%) (PFD) was then obtianed by:

PFD=1/(1 + e^(-LPFD))*100%
=0.05%

The eight explanatory variables are:

1. NIMTAAVG = Net Income to Market Total Assets

NIMTAAVG=Net Income / Market Total Assets
=Net Income / (Market Cap + Total Liabilities)

*Note that for companies reported quarterly, geometrically declining weighted quarterly Net Income data in latest four quarters are used.

2. TLMTA = Total liabilities to Market Total Assets

TLMTA=Total Liabilities / Market Total Assets

3. CASHMTA = Cash to Market Total Assets

For non-financial companies, CASHMTA is measured as:

CASHMTA=Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities / Market Total Assets

4. EXRETAVG = Excess Return compared to the S&P 500

EXRETAVG is the weighted excess return compared to the S&P 500 in past 12 month. Geometrically declining weights are imposed on the monthly excess return to reflect lagged information. The weight is halved each quarter.

5. SIGMA = Standard Deviation of Daily Returns

For sigma, we use the annualized standard deviation of a company's returns over the past 92 days (or 63 trading days).

6. RSIZE = Relative Size

RSIZE=log (Market Cap / Total Market Cap of S&P 500 companies)

7. MB = Market to Adjusted Book Equity Ratio


8. PRICE

PRICE is measured as the log of the stock price, capped at log(15).


Performant Financial  (NAS:PFMT) Probability of Financial Distress (%) Explanation

Like the Altman Z-Score, the PFD measures a company's bankruptcy risk in the upcoming year. However, the main drawback of the Z-score is it does not apply to banks and insurance companies. According to Investopedia, the concept of "working capital" does not apply to banks and insurance companies, as financial institutions do not have typical current assets or current liabilities like inventories or accounts payable.


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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Business Description

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333 North Canyons Parkway, Livermore, CA, USA, 94551
Performant Financial Corp provides technology-enabled recovery and related analytics services in the United States. The company provides its services on an outsourced basis where it handles many or all aspects of its clients' recovery processes. It uses technology-enabled services platform to provide recovery and analytics services in a range of markets for the identification and recovery of student loans, improper healthcare payments and delinquent state tax and federal treasury receivables. The services are primarily offered across a broad range of government and private clients in several markets. The revenue generated here is generally on success-based as it earns fees based on a percentage of the aggregate amount of funds that it enables the clients to recover.
Executives
Prescott Group Capital Management, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH UTICA, SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6429
Rohit Ramchandani officer: Chief Financial Officer 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Ecmc Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 1 IMATION PLACE, BLDG 2, SUITE 392A, OAKDALE MN 55128
Pcp Managers Gp, Llc 10 percent owner FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Dcs Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Eric Yanagi director 400 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD, SUITE 526, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Pcp Managers, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Partners Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Investors Ii. L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 400 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
James Lacamp director 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Lp 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Master Fund Gp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Ii Lp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Phil Frohlich 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529