Beneficient — financial distress indicators
Financial-health summary
Beneficient's reported numbers place it in the 'Weak' financial-health band (distress score 58/100). The main indicators are negative book equity, share price down >80% from 52-week high and latest year loss-making. In its favour: high insider/promoter ownership (88%) aligns management with survival.
Stress by dimension
Share price — last 12 months
Indicators behind the score
Each red flag shows the evidence from the company’s own filings and the financial or legal principle behind it. Points add to the 0–100 score.
Equity is zero or negative.
A financial institution with no equity cushion is technically insolvent; regulators intervene before this point.
Price is -91% from its 52-week high.
Equity markets price distress early; collapses of this size usually reflect fear of wipe-out in a restructuring.
Net income is negative.
Losses at a financial institution consume regulatory capital directly.
Annualised volatility is 278%.
High equity volatility raises the market-implied default probability.
Revenue vs net income
Cash generation
Debt vs cash vs equity
✅ Mitigating factors
- High insider/promoter ownership (88%) aligns management with survival.
📰 Recent news scan
- Beneficient(BENF) Stock Options Chain | Quotes & News - MoomooGoogle News · 2026-10-07
- $BENF stock is down 9% today. Here's what we see in our data. - Quiver QuantitativeGoogle News · 2026-10-05
- Zero shares and no voting power: YA II PN reports its Beneficient (BENF) ownership. - Stock TitanGoogle News · 2026-10-05
- BENF Stock Whipsaws As Beneficient Targets Debt Cleanup And Tech Growth - StocksToTradeGoogle News · 2026-09-25
- Beneficient stock soars after announcing plan to cut ties with Heppner (BENF:NASDAQ) - Seeking AlphaGoogle News · 2026-09-23
- Beneficient Stock Skyrockets Wednesday: What's Going On? - BenzingaGoogle News · 2026-09-23
⚖️ U.S. legal pathway — Title 11, U.S. Code
Which chapter would apply?
- Chapter 11 — reorganisation. Management usually stays in control as debtor-in-possession; the automatic stay (§362) halts collection; a plan must meet the best-interests test (§1129(a)(7)) and the absolute priority rule (§1129(b)) — creditors are paid before shareholders, who are frequently wiped out.
- Chapter 7 — liquidation. A trustee sells assets and distributes proceeds by statutory priority (§§507, 726).
- Subchapter V (“Chapter 5”) is a fast track for small-business debtors under a statutory debt cap, but SEC-reporting companies are excluded (§101(51D)) — so it rarely applies to listed companies.
What typically triggers a filing
- Payment default or covenant breach lenders will not waive; a debt maturity that cannot be refinanced.
- Auditor going-concern doubt (ASC 205-40 / PCAOB AS 2415) — often itself a default trigger in loan agreements.
- Creditors can force a case with an involuntary petition (§303) if debts are not paid as they come due.
- Delisting after sustained sub-$1 prices or equity deficits cuts off equity funding.
Transactions shortly before filing can be clawed back (preferences — 90 days, §547; fraudulent transfers — 2 years, §548).
Frequently asked questions
What do Beneficient's financial-health indicators show?
As of 2026-10-08, Beneficient's public financial data places it in the 'Weak' band with a distress score of 58/100, driven by negative book equity, share price down >80% from 52-week high and latest year loss-making. This is a statistical screen of reported numbers — it does not mean the company is insolvent, has defaulted or will enter insolvency proceedings.
What is Beneficient's financial distress score?
58/100 ('Weak').
What works in Beneficient's favour?
High insider/promoter ownership (88%) aligns management with survival.
How are shareholders treated if a company enters insolvency?
In a Chapter 11 reorganisation the absolute priority rule pays secured lenders, then unsecured creditors, before shareholders — so existing shares are usually cancelled or heavily diluted. In Chapter 7 the company is liquidated and shareholders rarely recover anything.
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Methodology
Score = capped sum of rule-based red flags across seven dimensions (liquidity, solvency, profitability, cash flow, sales trend, market signal, news). Ohlson O-score (1980) gives an accounting-based 1-year failure probability; Merton distance-to-default (Bharath & Shumway 2008) gives a market-implied probability. Financial institutions use a capital-based rule set. Recalculated every trading day from the latest filings, prices and news.