by Tim Delaney | Sep 1, 2012
Last October, David Einhorn, head of Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund famous for taking short positions in Lehman Brothers’ shares before Lehman failed, attacked Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ in a presentation at an investors’ conference. It was a...
by Ron Carleton | Mar 30, 2012
We often tell our clients that a company does not file for bankruptcy on a particular day because it has too much leverage, or because it has a bad management team, or because it has a competitive disadvantage. All of these factors may eventually drive a company out...
by Tim Delaney | Mar 10, 2012
Kodak’s cash burn was a big concern among analysts in the last months before the firm’s bankruptcy in January of this year. Cash burn is a term that gets thrown around a lot when companies are in trouble, but it’s hard to find a definition for it in books on...
by Ron Carleton | Nov 22, 2011
We’ve been running a poll on the Comments on Credit blog for the past few months asking 2 questions: It is no surprise that bankers like the debt service coverage and fixed charge coverage ratios best – they are good measures of a company’s ability...
by Tim Delaney | Apr 24, 2011
When the Deepwater Horizon blew up in April of 2010 and the Macondo well started spilling thousands of barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, BP’s management had to deal with massive human, environmental, operational, and financial challenges. The controversy...
