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Heliogen (Heliogen) Altman Z-Score

: -9.89 (As of Today)
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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 -9.89 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

Heliogen has a Altman Z-Score of -9.89, 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 Heliogen's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:

HLGN' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -9.89   Med: -2.8   Max: 37.72
Current: -9.89

During the past 5 years, Heliogen's highest Altman Z-Score was 37.72. The lowest was -9.89. And the median was -2.80.


Heliogen Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Heliogen'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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Heliogen Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Altman Z-Score
- - 37.72 -2.80 -9.87

Heliogen Quarterly Data
Dec19 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Altman Z-Score 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 -2.80 -3.35 -4.10 -5.08 -9.87

Competitive Comparison

For the Utilities - Renewable subindustry, Heliogen'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.


Heliogen Altman Z-Score Distribution

For the Utilities - Independent Power Producers industry and Utilities sector, Heliogen's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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



Heliogen 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.

Heliogen'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*-0.1732+1.4*-4.0939+3.3*-1.2108+0.6*0.0752+1.0*-0.0017
=-9.89

* 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. 2023:
Total Assets was $107.03 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $83.47 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $102.00 Mil.
Retained Earnings was $-438.18 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was -78.803 + -18.569 + -21.681 + -10.544 = $-129.60 Mil.
Interest Expense was 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = $0.00 Mil.
Revenue was -4.716 + 2.273 + 1.394 + 0.866 = $-0.18 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was $8.66 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $115.05 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
=(83.466 - 102.001)/107.033
=-0.1732

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=-438.178/107.033
=-4.0939

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(-129.597 - 0)/107.033
=-1.2108

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=8.657/115.048
=0.0752

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=-0.183/107.033
=-0.0017

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Heliogen has a Altman Z-Score of -9.89 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.


Heliogen  (OTCPK:HLGN) 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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Heliogen (Heliogen) Business Description

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Address
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA, USA, 91103
Heliogen Inc is a concentrated solar energy system that is being developed to unlock the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), its modular system aims to deliver low-cost renewable energy in the form of heat, power, or hydrogen fuel. The company's computer vision software aligns an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight to a target on the top of a Sunlight Refinery tower.
Executives
Nant Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 9922 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90232
Barbara J Burger director 130 WEST UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Sagar Kurada officer: CFO and Head of Strategy 1323 W. SCHOOL STREET, CHICAGO IL 60657
William Gross director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O BILL GROSS' IDEALAB, 130 W UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Thomas P. Doyle officer: Chief Commercial Officer 130 W UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Kelly Rosser officer: Interim CFO, and CAO ONE MEMORIAL CITY PLAZA, 800 GESSNER ROAD, SUITE 875, HOUSTON TX 77024
Christiana Obiaya officer: Chief Executive Officer 130 W UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Prime Movers Lab Fund I Lp 10 percent owner P.O. BOX 12829, JACKSON WY 83002
Prime Movers Lab Fund Ii Lp 10 percent owner 6765 CRYSTAL SPRINGS RD, TETON VILLAGE WY 83025
Paul Gauche officer: Executive VP, Engineering 130 WEST UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Roger Lazarus director 100 EL CAMINO REAL, GROUND SUITE, BURLINGAME CA 94010
Andrew Alan Lambert officer: Chf. Mfg. & Sply. Chain Ofc. 130 WEST UNION STREET, PASADENA CA 91103
Neotribe Partners I, Llc 10 percent owner 3340 HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Phyllis W. Newhouse director 125 TOWNPARK DRIVE, SUITE 300, KENNESAW GA 30144
Robert M Kavner director OVERTURE SERVICES, INC., P.O. BOX 1355, CARMEL CA 93921