BankruptcyData released its Q2 2017 Business Bankruptcy Filings Report, which indicates that the Retail, Services and Finance/Insurance/Real Estate sectors increased their percentages of overall business bankruptcies during Q2 2017, compared to the same period last year; and, YTD, the Retail sector is up approximately 35% compared to the same periods in both 2016 and 2015.
During 2Q 2017 Texas overtook New York as the state generating the highest percentage (nearly 20%) of overall business bankruptcies but New York retained top billing with 17% of YTD 2017 business bankruptcy filings.
As usual, small businesses make up the lion’s share of filings, with companies reporting sales less than $500K generating 56% of all business bankruptcy filings during Q2 2017 and 61% YTD 2017. Similarly, business with less than 50 employees generated 87% of all bankruptcies during the first six months of 2017.
Though overall bankruptcy activity is trending upward, public company bankruptcies are down 31% thus far in 2017: 42 public companies filed for bankruptcy in the first six months of 2017, versus 61 in 2016.
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