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NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Altman Z-score

NVIDIA Corporation's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2026 is 61.08, in the safe zone (above 2.99).

Altman Z-score, annual

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Annual

Period Altman Z-score Change (points)
FY2026 61.08 1.17
FY2025 59.91 16.01
FY2024 43.90 26.80
FY2023 17.10 (6.30)
FY2022 23.40 4.72
FY2021 18.68 (1.45)
FY2020 20.13 2.87
FY2019 17.26 (9.94)
FY2018 27.20 15.47
FY2017 11.73 6.00

How fiscal 2026’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Working capital / total assets 0.45 — 0.54
Retained earnings / total assets 0.71 — 0.99
EBIT / total assets 0.63 — 2.08
Market value of equity / total liabilities 94.04 — 56.42
Sales / total assets 1.04 — 1.04
Altman Z-score Safe zone 61.08
Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) Safe zone 12.85

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 zoneabove 2.99above 2.60
Grey zone1.81–2.991.10–2.60
Distress zonebelow 1.81below 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.

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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

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