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ZeroFox Holdings (ZeroFox Holdings) Financial Strength : 2 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is ZeroFox Holdings Financial Strength?

ZeroFox Holdings has the Financial Strength Rank of 2. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.

Warning Sign:

ZeroFox Holdings Inc displays poor financial strength. Usually, this is caused by too much debt for the company.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

ZeroFox Holdings did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. ZeroFox Holdings's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 0.83. As of today, ZeroFox Holdings's Altman Z-Score is -5.10.


Competitive Comparison of ZeroFox Holdings's Financial Strength

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, ZeroFox Holdings's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


ZeroFox Holdings's Financial Strength Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, ZeroFox Holdings's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where ZeroFox Holdings's Financial Strength falls into.



ZeroFox Holdings Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

ZeroFox Holdings's Interest Expense for the months ended in Jan. 2024 was $-4.0 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Jan. 2024 was $-16.5 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $198.9 Mil.

ZeroFox Holdings's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is

ZeroFox Holdings did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

ZeroFox Holdings's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Jan. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(2.576 + 198.938) / 242.032
=0.83

3. Altman Z-Score.

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.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

ZeroFox Holdings has a Z-score of -5.10, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of -5.1 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* 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.


ZeroFox Holdings  (NAS:ZFOX) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

ZeroFox Holdings has the Financial Strength Rank of 2. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.


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ZeroFox Holdings (ZeroFox Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1834 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, USA, 21230
ZeroFox Holdings Inc is a cybersecurity company. It provides external threat intelligence and protection to disrupt threats to brands, people, assets and data across the public attack surface in one, comprehensive platform. With complete global coverage across the surface, deep and dark web and an artificial intelligence-based analysis engine, the ZeroFox Platform identifies and remediates targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, executive and location threats and more.
Executives
James Christopher Foster director, officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Prestridge Iii John R officer: Chief Marketing Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Michael Morgan Price officer: Chief Technology Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Kevin T Reardon officer: Chief Operating Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Scott O'rourke officer: Chief Revenue Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Thomas P Fitzgerald officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Timothy S Bender officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 10020
Barbara Lynn Stewart director 5798 ANEGADA DRIVE, NAPLES FL 34113
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