What is Midcoast Energy Partners LP 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.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP has a Altman Z-Score of 0.47, 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 Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Midcoast Energy Partners LP 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 Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Altman Z-Score
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Midcoast Energy Partners LP'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.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Midcoast Energy Partners LP's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP 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
Midcoast Energy Partners LP has a Altman Z-Score of 0.47 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.
Midcoast Energy Partners LP (NYSE:MEP) 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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Midcoast Energy Partners LP (Midcoast Energy Partners LP) Business Description
Midcoast Energy Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2013 to serve as Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P's primary vehicle for owning and growing its natural gas and NGL midstream business in the United States. Its business consists of gathering unprocessed and untreated natural gas from wellhead locations and other receipt points on its systems, processing the natural gas to remove NGLs and impurities at its processing and treating facilities and transporting the processed natural gas and NGLs to intrastate and interstate pipelines for transportation to various customers and market outlets. In addition it also provides marketing services of natural gas and NGLs to wholesale customers. It conducts business through two distinct reporting segments: Gathering, Processing and Transportation and Logistics and Marketing. Its gathering, processing and transportation business includes natural gas and NGL gathering and transportation pipeline systems, natural gas processing and treating facilities, condensate stabilizers and an NGL fractionation facility. It gathers natural gas from the wellhead and central receipt points on its systems, deliver it to facilities for processing and treating and deliver the residue gas to intrastate or interstate pipelines for transmission to wholesale customers such as power plants, industrial customers and local distribution companies. It delivers the NGLs produced at its processing and fractionation facilities to intrastate and interstate pipelines for transportation to the NGL market hubs in Mont Belvieu, Texas and Conway, Kansas. In addition, it delivers NGLs from certain of its facilities to the Texas Express NGL system for transportation on the Texas Express NGL mainline to Mont Belvieu, Texas. The primary role of its logistics and marketing business is to provide marketing services of natural gas, NGLs and condensate received from its gathering, processing and transportation business. It purchases and receives natural gas, NGLs and other products from pipeline systems and processing plants and sell and deliver them to wholesale customers, such as distributors, refiners, fractionators, chemical facilities, various third parties and end users. A majority of the natural gas and NGLs purchased are produced in Texas markets where it has intrastate deliverability alternatives over the past several years. It uses this connectivity to interstate pipelines to improve value for the producers by delivering natural gas into premium markets and NGLs to primary markets where it sells them to customers. It faces competition in the gathering, processing and transportation business, as well as in the marketing and logistics business. The Company's transmission and gathering pipelines, storage and processing facilities, and trucking and railcar operations are subject to extensive environmental, operational and safety regulation at federal and state levels.
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