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.
Demandware has a Altman Z-Score of 20.63, 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 Demandware's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Demandware Altman Z-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Demandware'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 Demandware's Altman Z-Score
For the Software - Application subindustry, Demandware'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.
Demandware's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Demandware's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Demandware's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Demandware 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.
Demandware'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
*
0.5176
+
1.4
*
-0.4323
+
3.3
*
-0.1139
+
0.6
*
33.8401
+
1.0
*
0.6828
=
20.63
* 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
Demandware has a Altman Z-Score of 20.63 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.
Demandware (NYSE:DWRE) 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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Demandware Inc was incorporated in Delaware in February 2004 as SSE Holding, Inc. and changed its name to Demandware, Inc. in August 2004. The Company provides enterprise-class cloud-based digital commerce solutions for retailers and branded manufacturers. Its platform, Demandware Commerce, enables customers to establish and execute complex digital commerce strategies that include expansion, multi-brand rollouts and omni-channel operations. It enable companies to easily design, implement and manage their own customized digital commerce sites, including websites, mobile applications, in-store solutions and other digital storefronts. Through its scalable, secure, and open Demandware Commerce platform, its customers create seamless brand experiences to reach their consumers across all digital touch points globally. The Company's cloud infrastructure increases processing capacity of its customers' digital commerce sites to meet surges in demand, minimize page load times and maximize uptime. Its cloud platform also offers the high reliability and security required by customers to implement their digital commerce strategies, and the Company has achieved 99.99% average platform availability since 2005. The Company has built an ecosystem of trusted partners called Demandware LINK that complements and optimizes Demandware Commerce. Demandware LINK is comprised of technology, solution and end-to end partners. Its geographical areas of operations include, United States, Germany and United Kingdom. The Company's customers include adidas, Barneys New York, Bestseller, Brooks Brothers, Carter's, Deckers, Guthy-Renker, House of Fraser, Jewelry Television, Kate Spade, Lands' End, L'Oreal, mothercare, s.Oliver, and Tory Burch. The Company competes with IBM, Oracle/ATG, eBay/Magento, Digital River, eBay/GSI Commerce, MarketLive and Venda. Its solutions are subject to export controls, including the Commerce Department's Export Administration Regulations and various economic and trade sanctions regulations established by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Controls, and exports of its solutions must be made in compliance with these laws.
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