The Manitowoc Company, Inc.
MTW Industrials Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
The Manitowoc Company, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.2 billion, up 2.89% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 10.3%, EPS grew 875.0%, free cash flow grew 94.0% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years.
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The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (MTW) Altman Z-score
The Manitowoc Company, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 2.12, in the grey zone (1.81–2.99).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2.12 | (0.01) |
| FY2024 | 2.12 | (0.13) |
| FY2023 | 2.25 | 0.58 |
| FY2022 | 1.67 | (0.20) |
| FY2021 | 1.87 | 0.09 |
| FY2020 | 1.78 | (0.48) |
| FY2019 | 2.26 | 0.33 |
| FY2018 | 1.93 | (0.43) |
| FY2017 | 2.37 | 0.59 |
| FY2016 | 1.78 | 0.89 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.33 | — | 0.40 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.11 | — | 0.16 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.03 | — | 0.10 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.38 | — | 0.23 | |
| Sales / total assets | 1.23 | — | 1.23 | |
| Altman Z-score | Grey zone | 2.12 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Safe zone | 3.40 | ||
Z and Z″ put The Manitowoc Company, Inc. in different zones: grey zone by Z, safe zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
| Company | Altman Z-score |
|---|---|
| BLBD Blue Bird Corporation compare | 6.8× |
| LNN Lindsay Corporation compare | 5.8× |
| ASTE Astec Industries, Inc. compare | 3.1× |
| WNC Wabash National Corporation compare | 2.9× |
| HY Hyster-Yale, Inc. compare | 2.4× |
| MTW The Manitowoc Company, Inc. | 2.1× |
| TWI Titan International, Inc. compare | 1.9× |
| AEBI Aebi Schmidt Holding AG compare | 1.5× |
| CMCO Columbus McKinnon Corporation compare | 0.4× |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets