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.
Artio Global Investors, has a Altman Z-Score of 1.27, 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 Artio Global Investors,'s Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Artio Global Investors, Altman Z-Score Historical Data
* 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 Artio Global Investors,'s Altman Z-Score
For the Asset Management subindustry, Artio Global Investors,'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.
Artio Global Investors,'s Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Artio Global Investors,'s Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Artio Global Investors,'s Altman Z-Score falls into.
Artio Global Investors, 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.
* 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
Artio Global Investors, has a Altman Z-Score of 1.27 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.
Artio Global Investors, (FRA:A1I) 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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Artio Global Investors, (FRA:A1I) Business Description
Artio Global Investors Inc. was incorporated in Delaware. The Company is an asset management Company that provides investment management services to institutional and mutual fund clients. In addition to International Equity, it offers a select group of other equity and fixed income strategies, including Global Equity, a series of U.S. Equity strategies, High Grade Fixed Income, High Yield and Local Emerging Markets Debt. Currently, it manage and advise the following investment vehicles through which clients can access its investment capabilities: proprietary funds; commingled institutional investment vehicles; institutional separate accounts; sub-advisory accounts; and a hedge fund. Its operations and clients are based principally in the U.S.; however, a substantial portion of its AuM is invested outside of the U.S. Its revenues are mainly billed in U.S. dollars, driven by investment management fees earned from managing clients' assets, and are calculated on the U.S. dollar value of the investment assets it manage for clients. Its distribution efforts target institutions and organizations that demonstrate institutional buying behavior and longer-term investment horizons, such as pension fund consultants, broker dealers, registered investment advisors ('RIAs'), mutual fund platforms and sub-advisory relationships, enabling it to achieve significant leverage from its focused sales force and client service infrastructure. It also manage assets for more than 700,000 retail mutual fund shareholders through SEC-registered funds and other retail investors through 10 funds that it sub-advise for others. It competes in all aspects of its business with other investment management companies. The Company's business is subject to extensive regulation in the U.S. at both the federal and state level, as well as by self-regulatory organizations and outside the U.S.
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