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Blacklinefety (TSX:BLN) Altman Z-Score : 2.64 (As of Dec. 15, 2024)


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What is Blacklinefety 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.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 2.64 is in the grey area. This implies that the company is under some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.8, the company may face bankruptcy risk.

Blacklinefety has a Altman Z-Score of 2.64, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that Blacklinefety is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may face bankrupcy risk.

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 Blacklinefety's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:

TSX:BLN' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.91   Med: 3.7   Max: 12.18
Current: 2.64

During the past 13 years, Blacklinefety's highest Altman Z-Score was 12.18. The lowest was -1.91. And the median was 3.70.


Blacklinefety Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blacklinefety'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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Blacklinefety Altman Z-Score Chart

Blacklinefety Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Altman Z-Score
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.78 8.88 5.84 -1.29 0.09

Blacklinefety Quarterly Data
Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24
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 0.40 0.09 0.45 0.51 1.71

Competitive Comparison of Blacklinefety's Altman Z-Score

For the Software - Application subindustry, Blacklinefety'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.


Blacklinefety's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Blacklinefety's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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



Blacklinefety 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.

Blacklinefety'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*0.3899+1.4*-1.3618+3.3*-0.097+0.6*5.9157+1.0*0.8484
=2.64

* 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 Jul. 2024:
Total Assets was C$143.4 Mil.
Total Current Assets was C$108.3 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was C$52.4 Mil.
Retained Earnings was C$-195.2 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was -2.312 + -4.026 + -5.523 + -3.62 = C$-15.5 Mil.
Interest Expense was -0.262 + -0.279 + -0.186 + -0.854 = C$-1.6 Mil.
Revenue was 33.686 + 31.58 + 26.325 + 30.035 = C$121.6 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was C$508.0 Mil.
Total Liabilities was C$85.9 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
=(108.281 - 52.38)/143.363
=0.3899

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=-195.232/143.363
=-1.3618

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(-15.481 - -1.581)/143.363
=-0.097

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=507.961/85.866
=5.9157

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=121.626/143.363
=0.8484

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Blacklinefety has a Altman Z-Score of 2.64 indicating it is in Grey Zones.

Study by Altman found that companies that are in Distress Zone have more than 80% of chances of bankruptcy in two years.


Blacklinefety  (TSX:BLN) 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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Altman Z-Score does not apply to financial companies.


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Blacklinefety Business Description

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803-24 Avenue S.E., Unit 100, Calgary, AB, CAN, T2G 1P5
Blackline Safety Corp is a connected safety monitoring technology company. The company develops, manufactures, and markets products and services that empower businesses with real-time safety insights to manage emergency responses, evacuations, and gas detection compliance programs. Its operating segments include, Product segment and Service segment which generates the majority of the revenue for the company. Service revenues relate to connectivity, monitoring and data services that it provides to the customers of its safety devices and includes access to the Blackline Safety Cloud, compliance and analytics reports, SOC monitoring, two-way voice functionality and push to talk capability. Geographically, it derives revenue from Canada, Europe, United States and Rest of the World.
Executives
Kevin Joseph Meyers Senior Officer
John Robert Finbow Director
Brendon John Mckay Cook Senior Officer
Cody Slater Director
Dak Capital Inc. 10% Security Holder
Robert Herdman Director
Michael Franklin Hayduk Director
Sean Stinson Senior Officer
Shane Martin Grennan Senior Officer

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