China Southern Airlines Company Limited
ZNH Industrials Airlines
China Southern Airlines Company Limited (ZNH) Altman Z-score
China Southern Airlines Company Limited's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2024 cannot be worked out: no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score, annual
Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|
How fiscal 2024’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | (0.30) | — | −0.37 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | (0.12) | — | −0.16 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.03 | — | 0.08 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | — | — | n/a | — |
| Sales / total assets | 0.53 | — | 0.53 | |
| Altman Z-score | n/a — no share price in the week to the fiscal year end | — | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Distress zone | −2.01 | ||
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 |
|---|---|
| RYAAY Ryanair Holdings PLC compare | 3.3× |
| CPA Copa Holdings, S.A. compare | 2.4× |
| LUV Southwest Airlines Co. compare | 2.2× |
| LTM LATAM Airlines Group S.A. compare | 1.8× |
| DAL Delta Air Lines, Inc. compare | 1.4× |
| UAL United Airlines Holdings Inc compare | 1.4× |
| ALK Alaska Air Group, Inc. compare | 1.1× |
| AAL American Airlines Group Inc. compare | 0.7× |
| ZNH China Southern Airlines Company Limited | — |
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