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Altman Z-Score Credit Risk Analyzer

The bankruptcy-prediction model Edward Altman built in 1968, still taught in every credit analysis course, scored live from five balance sheet and income statement ratios.

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How To Use This Calculator

Choose public or private company, set your total assets, then express the other four figures as ratios of that asset base.

Public companies use the original Z-Score, which relies on market value of equity. Private companies use the 1983 Z′-Score, Altman's own adjustment that substitutes book value of equity, since a private company has no market price. Both scores land in the same three zones: Distress, Grey, and Safe.

Your Inputs

All five ratios are computed from your total assets figure, keeping the balance sheet internally consistent. Book equity is calculated as Total Assets minus Total Liabilities.

Z-Score Result

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Z′-Score (Private Company)

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Distress · Grey · Safe Zones

ComponentRatioWeighted Contribution
Working Capital / Total Assets0.000.00
Retained Earnings / Total Assets0.000.00
EBIT / Total Assets0.000.00
Equity / Total Liabilities0.000.00
Sales / Total Assets0.000.00

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The Altman Z-Score was built and validated on manufacturing companies; it's less reliable for financial firms, early-stage companies with minimal assets, or asset-light service businesses. Treat a distress signal as a prompt to investigate further, not a verdict.

A distress signal is a call to action, not a verdict.