Kingsway Corporation — financial distress indicators
Financial-health summary
Kingsway Corporation's reported numbers place it in the 'Watch' financial-health band (distress score 36/100). The main indicators are critically thin capital and consecutive annual losses. In its favour: revenue still growing (+21% yoy).
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 / assets is 5.7% vs a ~10% prudent floor for this business.
Leverage-ratio proxy for regulatory capital (Basel III; U.S. PCA 'well-capitalized' ≥5% leverage; RBI CRAR ≥9% banks / 15% NBFCs). Risk-weighted CET1 is not public in this dataset.
Net loss in each of the last two years.
Sustained losses at a lender usually mean credit losses are outrunning provisions — a risk-management failure.
Revenue vs net income
Cash generation
Debt vs cash vs equity
✅ Mitigating factors
- Revenue still growing (+21% YoY).
📰 Recent news scan
- Kingsway to Present at Sidoti Small-Cap Virtual Conference on Wednesday, September 23 at 10:00 AM ETYahoo Finance · 2026-09-22
- Kingsway Stock Gains Post Q2 Earnings, EBITDA Hits Record HighYahoo Finance · 2026-08-13
- Kingsway Financial Services Q2 Earnings Call HighlightsYahoo Finance · 2026-08-08
- Kingsway Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Financial ResultsYahoo Finance · 2026-08-06
- Zacks Initiates Coverage of Kingsway With Neutral RecommendationYahoo Finance · 2026-06-08
- Kingsway to Present at the Planet MicroCap Las Vegas 2026 Investor Conference Powered by MicroCapClubYahoo Finance · 2026-06-05
⚖️ 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 Kingsway Corporation's financial-health indicators show?
As of 2026-10-08, Kingsway Corporation's public financial data places it in the 'Watch' band with a distress score of 36/100, driven by critically thin capital and consecutive annual losses. 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 Kingsway Corporation's financial distress score?
36/100 ('Watch').
What works in Kingsway Corporation's favour?
Revenue still growing (+21% YoY).
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.