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Direct Digital Holdings (Direct Digital Holdings) Altman Z-Score : 3.20 (As of May. 20, 2024)


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What is Direct Digital Holdings 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.

Good Sign:

Altman Z-score of 3.22 is strong.

Direct Digital Holdings has a Altman Z-Score of 3.20, indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Altman Z-Score is strong.

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 Direct Digital Holdings's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:

DRCT' s Altman Z-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.4   Med: 3.52   Max: 4.64
Current: 3.22

During the past 5 years, Direct Digital Holdings's highest Altman Z-Score was 4.64. The lowest was 2.40. And the median was 3.52.


Direct Digital Holdings Altman Z-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for Direct Digital Holdings'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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Direct Digital Holdings Altman Z-Score Chart

Direct Digital Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Altman Z-Score
- - - 2.40 4.64

Direct Digital Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec19 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 2.40 2.87 2.60 2.39 4.64

Competitive Comparison of Direct Digital Holdings's Altman Z-Score

For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Direct Digital Holdings'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.


Direct Digital Holdings's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Direct Digital Holdings's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:

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



Direct Digital Holdings 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.

Direct Digital Holdings'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*0.1555+1.4*-0.0504+3.3*0.1004+0.6*0.7918+1.0*2.2766
=3.20

* 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 Dec. 2023:
Total Assets was $69.0 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $43.1 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $32.4 Mil.
Retained Earnings was $-3.5 Mil.
Pre-Tax Income was -0.823 + 3.517 + 1.269 + -1.409 = $2.6 Mil.
Interest Expense was -1.273 + -1.06 + -1.027 + -1.017 = $-4.4 Mil.
Revenue was 41.012 + 59.472 + 35.404 + 21.223 = $157.1 Mil.
Market Cap (Today) was $52.8 Mil.
Total Liabilities was $66.7 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
=(43.083 - 32.354)/69.01
=0.1555

X2=Retained Earnings/Total Assets
=-3.477/69.01
=-0.0504

X3=Earnings Before Interest and Taxes/Total Assets
=(Pre-Tax Income - Interest Expense)/Total Assets
=(2.554 - -4.377)/69.01
=0.1004

X4=Market Value Equity/Book Value of Total Liabilities
=Market Cap/Total Liabilities
=52.796/66.682
=0.7918

X5=Revenue/Total Assets
=157.111/69.01
=2.2766

The zones of discrimination were as such:

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

Direct Digital Holdings has a Altman Z-Score of 3.20 indicating it is in Safe Zones.

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


Direct Digital Holdings  (NAS:DRCT) 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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Direct Digital Holdings (Direct Digital Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1177 West Loop South, Suite 1310, Houston, TX, USA, 77027
Direct Digital Holdings Inc is an end-to-end, full-service programmatic advertising platform primarily focused on providing advertising technology, data-driven campaign optimization and other solutions to underserved and less efficient markets on both the buy- and sell-side of the digital advertising ecosystem.
Executives
W Keith Smith director, 10 percent owner, officer: President
Diana P Diaz officer: Interim CFO 9220 KIRBY DRIVE SUITE 500, HOUSTON TX 77054
Mistelle Locke director C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1177 WEST LOOP SOUTH, SUITE 1310, HOUSTON TX 77027
Maria Vilchez Lowrey officer: Chief Growth Officer C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1177 WEST LOOP SOUTH STE 1310, HOUSTON TX 77027
Timothy Grittani 10 percent owner PO BOX 20551, COLUMBUS OH 43220
Richard Cohen director C/O DUNE ENERGY, INC., TWO SHELL PLAZA, 777 WALKER STREET, SUITE 2300, HOUSTON TX 77002
Antoinette Renee Leatherberry director C/O ZOETIS INC., 10 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Susan Echard officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O TRINITY CAPITAL INC., 3075 WEST RAY ROAD, SUITE 525, CHANDLER AZ 85226
Mark D Walker director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman and CEO C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1233 WEST LOOP SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027
Anu Pillai officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1233 WEST LOOP SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027
Direct Digital Management, Llc 10 percent owner 1233 WEST LOOP S., SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027