Bankruptcy risk is a specific area procurement professionals should focus upon when evaluating publicly held suppliers’ financial performance – especially given the effect of competitive pressures on corporate margins and daily news stories about growing levels of global debt.
Don’t let a small hot streak on the stock market fool you – Kodak’s financial security remains very much in question and provides a picture-perfect example of bankruptcy risk.
Crowdsourcing finds that hundreds of oil & gas companies continue to deal with financial distress in spite of the stabilization of energy commodity prices.
Standard & Poor’s recently released a list of retailers that it believes to be at the highest risk of default over the course of 2018. The retail industry is changing quickly, and it’s important to separate the operators that have kept themselves in good financial stead versus the ones which have not.
Credit professionals relied upon CreditRiskMonitor’s High Risk Reports to stay several steps ahead of failure, as 2017 was full of high-profile bankruptcy cases in the corporate world which were well-known to subscribers before they hit.
Residential construction operator Hovnanian Enterprises' bottom-rung FRISK® score displays the company's heightened financial risk in advance of its distressed debt exchange.
Australia’s previously stable economy is exhibiting an increase in risk due to a number of factors like a retail sales decline and slowing in its overheated housing market.
Commodities trader Noble Group Limited is in talks with creditors to restructure its debt. Their FRISK® score is in the high-risk "red zone," warning risk professionals of Noble Group's poor financial condition.
Frontier and Windstream have reported poor customer retention and experienced pricing weakness over the last few years, resulting in earnings decline. The most telling sign is the concern exhibited through our proprietary subscriber crowdsourcing data.
Popular prepared meal kit company Blue Apron faces a mighty challenge in 2018 to remain solvent as new competitors in Amazon and Wal-Mart enter their space.
