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Major discount retailer, Big Lots, Inc. filed for bankruptcy on September 9, 2024. Importantly, both payment-based (DBT Index) and financial-only based models (Z’’-Score) failed to warn about this company’s bankruptcy risk. Conversely, the FRISK® Score provided warning for more than a year, enabling clients to mitigate their trade credit exposure.
By tracking the behavior of credit managers and other professionals, crowdsourcing becomes the critical advantage that CreditRiskMonitor subscribers gain.
Bankruptcy Case Studies
CreditRiskMonitor® Bankruptcy Case Studies provide post-filing analyses of public company bankruptcies. Our case studies educate subscribers about methods they can apply to assess bankruptcy risk using our proprietary FRISK® score, robust financial database, and timely news alerts.
Major discount retailer, Big Lots, Inc. filed for bankruptcy on September 9, 2024. Importantly, both payment-based (DBT Index) and financial-only based models (Z’’-Score) failed to warn about this company’s bankruptcy risk. Conversely, the FRISK® Score provided warning for more than a year, enabling clients to mitigate their trade credit exposure.
Conn’s suffered from persistent declines in same store sales, caused by “lower discretionary spending for home-related products.” The acquisition of W.S. Badcock, LLC also contributed to higher financial leverage and ultimately an untenable balance sheet.
Medical services provider Cano Health, Inc. ran out of cash and incurred a mountain of debt, part of a corporate healthcare sector spike in bankruptcies in early 2024.
Blog Posts
A dormant debt powder keg ignited in 2023; as bankruptcies continue to explode in 2024, risk professionals must set into motion a multi-faceted approach to financial risk evaluation.
CreditRiskMonitor offers up five quick and important facts that you need to know about struggling JOANN Inc. to make a more solid business evaluation, which could include an alteration of credit extension or a pivot to a peer.
With escalating geopolitical tensions and heavy sanctions hitting Russia and China, corporations are sourcing alternative suppliers from other countries.
High Risk Reports
Our High Risk Reports feature companies that are exhibiting a significantly high level of financial distress, as indicated by our proprietary FRISK® score.
The reports highlight the factors that have pushed a company's score lower on the "1" (worst) to "10" (best) FRISK® score, which is 96% accurate in predicting bankruptcy over a 12-month period. The High Risk Reports also includes analysis on financial indicators such as the company’s DBT index, stock performance, financial ratios and how it is performing relative to its industry peers.
In this Distressed Supplier Report, the near-term fate of Enviva, Inc. is discussed: why this supplier is in trouble, which SupplyChainMonitor™ features are unearthing Enviva's hidden dangers, and the contingency plans procurement professionals must make to keep their supply chain intact in the face of the company's ballooning financial risk level.
No two public companies are cut from the exact same cloth, yet the telltale signs of potential bankruptcy shown by craft retailer JOANN Inc. are universal: lots of leverage, recurring net losses, and negative free cash flow.
In this Distressed Supplier Report, the near-term fate of Triumph Group, Inc. is discussed: why this supplier is in trouble, which SupplyChainMonitor features are unearthing Triumph Group's hidden dangers, and the contingency plans procurement professionals must make to keep their supply chain intact in the face of the company's ballooning financial risk level.
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