Public company bankruptcies were widespread in 2019, and they were particularly severe in the oil and gas industry. We predict that they will intensify in other cyclical industries going forward.
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In 2021, total liabilities from public company bankruptcies approached $77 billion, delivering formidable material losses to creditors and major disruptions to global supply chains.
Public and private companies need to be proactively evaluated in distinct, different ways by risk management professionals - fortunately, with the FRISK® score and PAYCE® score, CreditRiskMonitor has world-class solutions for both subportfolios.
With more than two decades' worth of usage data on the research patterns of credit and procurement professionals in hand, CreditRiskMonitor has discovered that the aggregate sentiment signals displayed by this group are highly predictive of company bankruptcy.
Corporate supply chains need to be wary of suppliers that are financially distressed. High-risk suppliers can expose your company to a variety of issues, which can ultimately have an impact on your company's supply chain, sales revenue, and reputation.
Looking to China in a COVID-19 age, creditors may soon start forcing several high-profile companies into legal proceedings commensurate with corporate failure.
Unless there is a rapid economic recovery, more retailers are going to go the way of J. C. Penney, Pier 1 Imports, Neiman Marcus and J.Crew. That is: bankruptcy.
Property development represents about 30% of China’s GDP. Ongoing defaults could eventually convert into bankruptcy filings that would shake up the industry - and subsequently rock markets in the West.
Deep cracks are surfacing in global corporate debt markets. The timing of corporate bankruptcies is always difficult to predict, yet FRISK® score trends show that the odds of a bankruptcy wave have measurably increased.