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Luby's (Luby's) Altman Z-Score : 0.90 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Luby's 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.

Luby's has a Altman Z-Score of 0.90, 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 Luby's's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:


Luby's Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Luby's'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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Luby's Altman Z-Score Chart

Luby's Annual Data
Trend Aug12 Aug13 Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21
Altman Z-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.48 2.02 2.32 1.25 1.71

Luby's Quarterly Data
Nov16 Feb17 May17 Aug17 Nov17 Feb18 May18 Aug18 Nov18 Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21
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 1.25 1.94 1.56 1.01 1.71

Competitive Comparison of Luby's's Altman Z-Score

For the Restaurants subindustry, Luby's'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.


Luby's's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Luby's's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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



Luby's 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.

Luby's'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*0.0711+1.4*0+3.3*-0.0084+0.6*1.0592+1.0*0.2026
=0.90

* 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 Aug. 2021:
Total Assets was $207.03 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $30.07 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $15.35 Mil.
Retained Earnings was $0.00 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was 0 + 0 + 0 + -2.945 = $-2.95 Mil.
Interest Expense was 0 + 0 + 0 + -1.212 = $-1.21 Mil.
Revenue was 0 + 0 + 0 + 41.947 = $41.95 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was $55.33 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $52.23 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
=(30.068 - 15.35)/207.028
=0.0711

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=0/207.028
=0

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(-2.945 - -1.212)/207.028
=-0.0084

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=55.328/52.234
=1.0592

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=41.947/207.028
=0.2026

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Luby's has a Altman Z-Score of 0.90 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.


Luby's  (NYSE:LUB) 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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Luby's (Luby's) Business Description

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Address
13111 Northwest Freeway, Suite 600, Houston, TX, USA, 77040
Luby's Inc is a multi-branded company that owns and operates restaurants in the United States. Its operating segments are Company-owned restaurants, which generate majority revenue; franchise operations; and Culinary Contract Services. The company-owned restaurant's segment consists of brands including Luby's Cafeteria, Fuddruckers, and Cheeseburger in Paradise with a couple of non-core restaurant locations under other brand names. It only offers franchises for the Fuddruckers brand. Franchises are sold in markets where expansion is deemed advantageous to the development of the Fuddruckers concept and system of restaurants. The CCS operation, branded as Luby's Culinary Contract Services, consists of a business line servicing healthcare and corporate dining clients.
Executives
Steven Goodweather officer: Chief Financial Officer 13111 NORTHWEST FREEWAY SUITE 600 HOUSTON TX 77040
Philip Rider officer: Chief Acct Officer &Controller 13111 NORTHWEST FREEWAY SUITE 600 HOUSTON TX 77040
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Benjamin T Coutee officer: Chief Operating Officer 13111 NORTHWEST FREEWAY SUITE 600 HOUSTON TX 77040
Christopher James Pappas director, 10 percent owner, officer: President and Chief Executive
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Arthur R Emerson director
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