Taylor Devices, Inc.

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Taylor Devices, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended May 2026) was $41.6 million, down 10.0% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to August 2026, revenue fell 26.4%, EPS fell 80.0% and free cash flow grew 2,426.6%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

54.07 0.01 −0.02%
Market cap
$174.7M
P/E
25.1×
Fwd P/E
14.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
22.81
Beneish M
−2.55
Dividend safety
n/a

Taylor Devices, Inc. (TAYD) Altman Z-score

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Taylor Devices, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2026 is 22.81, in the safe zone (above 2.99).

Altman Z-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Altman Z-score Change (points)
FY2026 22.81 12.51
FY2025 10.30 (1.40)
FY2024 11.70 3.83
FY2023 7.87 2.01
FY2022 5.87 (1.07)
FY2021 6.94 0.14
FY2020 6.80 (0.75)
FY2019 7.54 1.63
FY2018 5.91 (3.06)
FY2017 8.98 0.81

How fiscal 2026’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Working capital / total assets 0.74 — 0.89
Retained earnings / total assets 0.89 — 1.24
EBIT / total assets 0.09 — 0.31
Market value of equity / total liabilities 33.05 — 19.83
Sales / total assets 0.54 — 0.54
Altman Z-score Safe zone 22.81
Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) Safe zone 24.02

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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