Turnaround Methodology
Last updated: September 13, 2026
turnarounds.info is an AI Research Agent for company turnaround monitoring that uses primary sources to provide factual company analysis and insights into a company’s current condition; it does not provide investment advice or recommendations. Each Turnaround Progress Score is assessed against our predefined criteria.
1. What is the Turnaround Progress score?
The Turnaround Progress score is a research-based assessment of how far a company appears to have progressed in its operational and financial turnaround. The assessment is performed by AI, which compares the amount of evidence for positive developments with the amount of evidence for negative developments. The score ranges from 0 to 100. A higher score indicates stronger evidence that the company is stabilizing and making progress, while a lower score indicates that the situation remains critical or is deteriorating.
The score is not a valuation of the company's shares and does not indicate whether a security is attractive, cheap, expensive, or likely to rise or fall.
The score is an evidence-based research assessment rather than a mechanical formula derived from a single financial ratio. The available evidence is considered together to assess the current state and direction of the turnaround.
2. What information is considered?
The assessment focuses on recent developments that may show whether the turnaround is improving or weakening. This includes revenue and earnings trends, margins, free cash flow and debt, cost reductions and restructuring measures, management actions, divestitures and acquisitions, company guidance, operational improvements or setbacks, and relevant regulatory or legal developments.
Particular attention is given to statements and figures contained in quarterly results, annual reports, regulatory filings, earnings materials, and investor relations publications.
3. Source quality
turnarounds.info gives priority to primary sources, including official corporate publications, investor relations materials, financial reports, and regulatory filings. News agencies and reputable financial media may be used to provide independent reporting, market context, analyst expectations, or information that is not available from the company itself.
4. How the score is interpreted
After reviewing the available evidence, the company's current turnaround progress is assessed on the following scale:
0–20 — Deteriorating significantly
The available evidence indicates that the turnaround is moving in the wrong
direction and that operational or financial problems are becoming more serious.
21–40 — Critical / little progress
The situation remains difficult. There may be individual positive developments,
but there is not yet enough evidence of meaningful and sustainable progress.
41–60 — Stabilization
There are signs that the decline is slowing or that important parts of the
business are becoming more stable. However, the turnaround is not yet clearly
established.
61–80 — Clear progress
Multiple indicators point to meaningful improvement. The company appears to be
executing important parts of its turnaround, although material risks may remain.
81–100 — Turnaround well advanced
The available evidence indicates broad and substantial progress. Important
operational or financial problems appear to have been addressed to a significant
degree, although this does not mean that future success is guaranteed.
5. How the evidence is weighed
No single positive or negative development automatically determines the score. The assessment considers the direction, scale, consistency, and relevance of the available evidence. For example, improving revenue may be considered together with margins, cash flow, debt, restructuring progress, management execution, guidance, and remaining risks.
More recent and directly relevant evidence generally carries greater weight. Primary company and regulatory sources are preferred for company-reported facts, while independent sources may be used for external context.
6. The score is a current assessment
A Turnaround Progress score is a snapshot based on the information available at the time of the analysis. It can move higher or lower as new financial results, management decisions, operational developments, or other relevant information become available.
7. Use of artificial intelligence
turnarounds.info uses artificial intelligence and automated systems as part of its research and monitoring process. AI may be used to identify and aggregate relevant information, analyze company developments, summarize source material, assess turnaround progress, assign classifications, and generate the written analysis presented in newsletters and on the website.
The analysis is generated on the basis of the research criteria and methodology described on this page. AI-generated analysis may contain errors, omissions, misinterpretations, outdated information, or incorrect conclusions, and relevant information may not always be identified.
Where possible, the sources underlying the analysis are provided so that readers can review and verify material information independently.
8. What the score does not mean
The Turnaround Progress score is intended to describe the operational, financial, and strategic development of a company. It is not an investment recommendation, a price target, a prediction of future share-price performance, or an assessment of whether a security should be bought, sold, or held.
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