# Professor Edward Altman comments on earnings growth at private, middle-market companies based on the Golub Capital Altman Index he co-created

1 Faculty News October 7, 2015 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2015/10/07/earnings-growth-slowing-for-private-middle-market-companies/) -- "The private-company numbers suggest slowing growth for larger companies, said [Edward Altman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman), a professor at New York University who helped create the Golub Index. He said there’s a high rate of correlation between the Golub index and public company performance, suggesting big companies will report weaker growth during the third-quarter earnings season, which begins this week."

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