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Trade Protect helps traders avoid investing in potentially bankrupt companies by ranking stocks with the highest scores at the top. It's a quick indicator, but it's important to conduct your own research and check the company's fundamentals before making any trades.

Trade Protect considers many factors, but investors and traders can also review two other scores when doing due diligence such as the:

• Piotroski F-Score
• Altman Z-Score

Piotroski F-Score

The Piotroski F-Score evaluates a company's financial health using nine criteria from its financial statements. Scores range from 0 to 9, with 8-9 indicating strong financial health and 0-2 signaling potential issues. It assesses profitability, liquidity, leverage, and operational efficiency. Despite its effectiveness, the F-Score has limitations, including reliance on specific factors and lack of a central database. Investors use it to identify potentially strong investments and avoid financially weak companies.

Altman Z-Score

The Altman Z-Score assesses a company's bankruptcy risk using five financial ratios from its 10-K report. Scores below 1.8 suggest a high risk of bankruptcy, while scores above 3 indicate financial stability. The score combines measures of liquidity, profitability, leverage, and efficiency. Though useful, it has drawbacks, such as reliance on specific factor weights and limited variables. Investors use it to guide buying or selling decisions based on a company's financial health.