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CRBU (Caribou Biosciences) Altman Z-Score : -1.91 (As of Mar. 13, 2025)


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What is Caribou Biosciences 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.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of -1.84 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

Caribou Biosciences has a Altman Z-Score of -1.91, 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 Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:

CRBU' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.84   Med: 3.96   Max: 10.21
Current: -1.84

During the past 6 years, Caribou Biosciences's highest Altman Z-Score was 10.21. The lowest was -1.84. And the median was 3.96.


Caribou Biosciences Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Caribou Biosciences'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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Caribou Biosciences Altman Z-Score Chart

Caribou Biosciences Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Altman Z-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 10.21 2.32 3.96 -1.36

Caribou Biosciences Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
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 Premium Member Only 3.96 3.17 -0.23 -0.66 -1.36

Competitive Comparison of Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Caribou Biosciences'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.


Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score falls into.



Caribou Biosciences 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.

Caribou Biosciences'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*0.6024+1.4*-1.4311+3.3*-0.4759+0.6*1.5184+1.0*0.0319
=-1.91

* 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. 2024:
Total Assets was $313.31 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $219.38 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $30.65 Mil.
Retained Earnings was $-448.39 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was -35.499 + -34.684 + -37.697 + -41.234 = $-149.11 Mil.
Interest Expense was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Revenue was 2.077 + 2.024 + 3.464 + 2.429 = $9.99 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was $91.66 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $60.36 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
=(219.377 - 30.651)/313.313
=0.6024

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=-448.39/313.313
=-1.4311

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(-149.114 - 0)/313.313
=-0.4759

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=91.655/60.362
=1.5184

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=9.994/313.313
=0.0319

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Caribou Biosciences has a Altman Z-Score of -1.91 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.


Caribou Biosciences  (NAS:CRBU) 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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Caribou Biosciences Business Description

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Address
2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA, USA, 94710
Caribou Biosciences Inc is a clinical-stage Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with devastating diseases by applying its novel CRISPR platform, CRISPR hybrid RNA-DNA (chRDNA), toward the development of next-generation, genome-edited cell therapies. The company operates and manage business as one reportable operating segment, which is the business of developing a pipeline of allogeneic CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies.
Executives
Syed Ali-aamir Rizvi officer: Chief Medical Officer C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ryan Fischesser officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Steven Kanner officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
David Lee Johnson director C/O GLOBAL BLOOD THERAPEUTICS, 171 OYSTER POINT BLVD, STE. 300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Barbara G Mcclung officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ruhi Ahmad Khan officer: Chief Business Officer C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Dara Richardson-heron director C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 29, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ran Zheng director 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Nancy Whiting director 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Fmr Llc 10 percent owner, other: See Remark 1 245 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON MA 02210
Natalie Sacks director C/O ADURO BIOTECH, INC., 740 HEINZ AVENUE, BERKELEY CA 94710
Scott Braunstein director C/O ESPERION THERAPEUTICS, INC., 3891 RANCHERO DRIVE, SUITE 150, ANN ARBOR MI 48108
Rachel E. Haurwitz director, officer: See Remarks C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Andrew Guggenhime director C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Jason O'byrne officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710

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