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.
Rentrak has a Altman Z-Score of 14.02, 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 Rentrak's Altman Z-Score or its related term are showing as below:
Rentrak Altman Z-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Rentrak'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.
Competitive Comparison of Rentrak's Altman Z-Score
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Rentrak'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.
Rentrak's Altman Z-Score Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Rentrak's Altman Z-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rentrak's Altman Z-Score falls into.
Rentrak 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.
Rentrak'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
*
0.2702
+
1.4
*
-0.1072
+
3.3
*
-0.0001
+
0.6
*
22.4058
+
1.0
*
0.4008
=
14.02
* 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.
Distress Zones - 1.81 < Grey Zones < 2.99 - Safe Zones
Rentrak has a Altman Z-Score of 14.02 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.
Rentrak (NAS:RENT) 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.
Altman Z-Score does not apply to financial companies.
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Rentrak Corp is an Oregon corporation and was incorporated in 1977. It is a media measurement and information company serving the entertainment, television, video and advertising industries. The Company's Software as a Service technology merges census-based television viewership information from over 100 million TVs and devices with consumer behavior and purchase information across multiple platforms, devices and distribution channels. It also measures box office results from more than 125,000 movie screens in 47 countries. The Company processes and aggregates billions of data transactions from multiple screens wherever entertainment content is viewed, whether at the box office, on a television screen, over the internet, on a smart phone or other portable device. It measures live TV, recorded TV, Video-On-Demand and whether the content is free, purchased, rented, recorded, downloaded or streamed from multiple channels. These content databases provide stable and granular viewership information across every screen and are anonymously matched with third-party consumer segmentation and purchase databases using privacy compliant methodologies. By linking multiscreen viewership information with information about the products viewers consume and prefer, the Company provides its clients, such as content producers, distributors, advertisers and advertising agencies, with the knowledge necessary to effectively manage their businesses, program and market their networks and precisely target and sell their advertising inventory. Additionally, certain clients of the Company use the databases to populate programmatic buying systems. These systems automate the buying process and introduce efficiencies for both advertising agencies and their clients. The Company's media measurement services are distributed through patent pending software systems and business processes into two areas within the entertainment industry: - Movies Everywhere and TV Everywhere. The Company's Entertainment Essentials services are: TV Everywhere including TV Essentials and StationView Essentials; OnDemand Everywhere includes OnDemand Essentials, Over the Top measurement products and related products; Movies Everywhere includes domestic and international Box Office Essentials, PostTrak and PreAct; and Other Services include Studio Direct Revenue Sharing and other products relating to content in the home video rental industry. The Company's primary competitors are Nielsen, Kantar and TiVo. It owns two patents directed to techniques for extracting revenue information from point-of-sale terminals, as well as nine patents for linear data collection, projections and analysis. Among the linear TV patents are two for our sophisticated TV-off methodology, which accurately accounts for cases when the TV is turned off but the set-top box.
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