According to Jornal de Negócios, compared to the previous year, there has been a slight increase of 0.3 percentage points, but data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) over the last five years show that the percentage of companies with negative net equity remained practically unchanged, showing that this is a structural problem in the country.

Small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are those that weigh most in the global negative value of non-financial companies in technical bankruptcy, while large companies weigh only 4 % in this indicator. According to IBGE, it is in the accommodation and food sector that the percentage of companies with negative net equity is highest (40.7%), followed by the transport and storage area (34.3%).