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Distress (Altman-Z + Piotroski-F) for WMT
AI-generated plain-English read of distress (altman-z + piotroski-f) for WMT. Updated daily.
Healthy, improving
highBoth the bankruptcy risk score (Z=4.32) and the operational health score (8/9) point to a financially sound company, trend improving within the safe zone.
What will probably happen
- Financially solid and getting stronger: balance sheet stress is not on the near-term horizon.
- Expect the company to have easy access to credit and the ability to invest in growth without distress-driven dilution.
What to do
- If you HOLD this stock
- No structural action needed: both scores say the company is financially sound. Standard position management applies.
- If you are EVALUATING this stock
- Safe to initiate: balance sheet is healthy and operations are generating quality earnings.
- If you trade OPTIONS
- Distress premium is not in play here; options pricing should reflect business risk, not solvency risk. Standard volatility-based sizing.
Both scores present with ≥3 periods of bankruptcy risk history.
Technical details
Technical analysis
- Bankruptcy risk score (Altman-Z)
- 4.32 (safe zone)
- Prior-period avg Z
- 3.34
- Operational health score (Piotroski-F)
- 8/9 (Strong (7-9)): profitability 4/4; leverage 2/3; efficiency 2/2
- Sector
- Retail
- Trend
- improving
- Agreement
- both_healthy
Key levels
| Level | Value |
|---|---|
| latest z | 4.32 |
| prior avg z | 3.34 |
| altman distress threshold | 1.81 |
| altman safe threshold | 2.99 |
| piotroski score | 8 |