Is the Growth of Companies Influencing Their Financial Condition Depending on Their Size: S&P 500 Listed Companies Example

The goal of this paper is related to the analysis of the earnings per share growth and the financial condition of companies as measured by Altman Z-Score Model and their relation. The research has been carried out on the example of S&P500 Index listed companies. The correlation and OLS panel data models with fixed effects were tested. The results indicate that the relationship between the EPS growth and Altman Z-Score is not linear and the smaller the company, the higher its growth index. In most of cases the growth of EPS influenced the Altman Z-scores in a positive way. On contrary in the group of medium size companies, EPS growth influenced the financial condition in a negative way. The article fills the gap related to the growth, the size and financial condition of the company that can improve if the management of growth is efficient.