Industries with the Largest Bad Debt Expenses and Write-Offs

Companies in the following industries suffer the most from bad debts that must be written off. Bad debts are incurred when a debtor declares bankruptcy, or when the cost of collecting the debt exceeds the value of the debt itself.

Note that industries that have larger companies on average may have larger amounts of bad debt expenses even though it represents a smaller fraction of revenues.

Rank	Industry
1	Credit Card Issuing
2	Warehouse Clubs, Supercenters, and Big Box Retail
3	Secondary Market Financing
4	Nuclear Electric Power Generation
5	Light Truck and Utility Vehicle Manufacturing
6	Cigarette Manufacturing
7	Securities and Commodity Exchanges
8	Sales Financing
9	Petrochemical Manufacturing
10	General Medical and Surgical Hospitals

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