Altman Z-score

area: Asset pricing and risk · 0 papers in the last 7 days

Z = 1.2X_1 + 1.4X_2 + 3.3X_3 + 0.6X_4 + 1.0X_5

Bankruptcy predictor that weights five accounting ratios (working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market equity, sales).

LaTeX: Z = 1.2X_1 + 1.4X_2 + 3.3X_3 + 0.6X_4 + 1.0X_5

Names searched for: Altman Z, Altman's Z

Key findings

Altman Z-score was mentioned in 2 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26), ranking #92 of the 104 equations and models mentioned.
By journal category: Finance (2).
Most of them appeared in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (1) and Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money (1).
Often mentioned together with Ordinary least squares (OLS) (2), Difference-in-differences (1) and Two-way fixed-effects panel regression (1).
Datasets named in the same papers: Compustat (2), VIX (1) and OVX (crude oil volatility index) (1).
From Apr 2024 to Sep 2026, 14 archived papers mentioned Altman Z-score in their title, abstract or keywords, most of them in Jan 2025 (2).

Mentions over 30 months

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Apr 2024 to Sep 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords)
Trend	Apr 24–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	30 months
	3	9	2	14

Papers mentioning Altman Z-score, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-08	Is the relationship between climate policy uncertainty and cash holding nonlinear?	The North American Journal of Economics and Finance	Augustinos I. Dimitras, Efstathios Magerakis, George Peppas	Hellenic Open University
2026-09-27	Bank market power and corporate stock price crash risk: borrowers’ manipulation incentives	Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money	Shengfeng Li, Liang Han, Biao Mi	University of Sheffield; Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; University of Surrey; …

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Altman Z-score. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/equations/altman-z-score

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  title = {Altman Z-score},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/equations/altman-z-score}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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