As part of our look back at the year that was in 2018, the arrival of the PAYCE® score changed the way our subscribers monitored private company financial risk.
Based on Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC’s bottom-rung FRISK® score of “1,” trade creditors must perform deep financial analysis and take extra care when dealing with the company.
Powered by crowdsourcing and deep neural network technology, CreditRiskMonitor® uses two proprietary scores – FRISK® and PAYCE® – to more accurately predict financial risk at public and private companies, respectively.
Scientific Games' high leverage, elevated investment needs, cyclical business risk, and recent penchant for extending credit to customers are all issues which necessitate a more sophisticated level of monitoring.
A steep decline in working capital and a skyrocketing total debt-to-EBITDA fuels our suspicion that Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. might be heading towards bankruptcy in the coming year.
Volatile commodity prices and rising interest rates were a challenge for operators in the energy sector in 2018, and things look to be even more dangerous in the years to come.
A look at our FRISK® Stress Index shows that there are more than 30 large-scale public companies within the restaurant industry at heightened risk of bankruptcy in 2019.
CPI Card Group, Inc. has seen it's FRISK® score flatline for 12 consecutive months as persistent negative net worth suggests loanable collateral has been exhausted.
This Bankruptcy Case Study shows that Parker Drilling Company was choked by more than a half a billion dollars in debt in 2018, never rising above a FRISK® score of "1."
CreditRiskMonitor takes a look back at the biggest bankruptcies of 2018 and the advanced Intel we provided our subscribers about companies before their Chapter 11 filings, headlined by the Sears Holdings Corporation.