Trends
What the record shows month by month: bankruptcy petitions, delistings and deregistrations, the courts they are filed in and the industries they land on. Every number here is a count of documents, not an estimate.
Material events by month
Counted on the date the event took effect, not the date we saw it.
- Jan 2026968
- Feb 2026937
- Mar 2026799
- Apr 2026950
- May 2026956
- Jun 20261,145
- Jul 20261,069
- Aug 20261,028
- Sep 2026954
- Oct 2026423
- Bankruptcy filed
- Registration withdrawn
- Delisting effective
- Bankruptcy case closed
- Delisting notice received
- Bankruptcy or receivership reported
- Claims deadline
- WARN notice
Busiest bankruptcy courts
Where cases were filed. A company may file far from where it operates.
| Court | Cases |
|---|---|
| D. Delaware | 2,244 |
| S.D. Texas | 1,968 |
| D. New Jersey | 1,227 |
| S.D. New York | 1,056 |
| N.D. Texas | 991 |
| E.D. New York | 514 |
| M.D. Florida | 493 |
| S.D. Florida | 436 |
| C.D. California | 361 |
| N.D. Georgia | 278 |
Industries
From the SEC classification of the 1,553 companies that file with it. Companies that never listed have no industry on record.
| Industry | Companies |
|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Preparations | 141 |
| Asset-Backed Securities | 79 |
| Blank Checks | 76 |
| Healthcare | 54 |
| Energy | 46 |
| Services-Prepackaged Software | 43 |
| Biological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) | 38 |
| Retail | 37 |
| Manufacturing | 37 |
| Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus | 36 |
Where tracked companies stand
Status is derived from the events on record and changes as new documents arrive.
- Bankruptcy5,819
- No longer listed748
- Distress signal554
- Unknown208
- Bankruptcy concluded50
- Liquidation25
- Recovered4
- Active2
- Restructuring2
A bankruptcy filing is a legal proceeding, not a confirmation that a company has closed. Browse the companies to see the documents behind each one.