You are talking about a company's reputation here, and any rumours of cashflow problems, no matter what the reality is, could have damaging repercussions in terms of what credit their suppliers extend them.
Yes ... well ...
Once Upon A Time I was doing some work for a company. In due course it became slightly more difficult than it should have done to get paid; seeing as how I basically work for the money I stopped working for them, and went and worked for someone else who didn't seem to have a problem paying their bills.
I said nothing to anyone. In particular I spread no rumours about their credit-worthiness on the local usenet newsgroup.
And a few months someone posted to that newsgroup that they had lost a couple of months' income when the company finally went down the tubes.
Now, if I'd been more public spirited and spread the rumour around at the right time that guy wouldn't have been short of a couple of months' pay, would he, because he would also have stopped working for them.
So these days I'd publish something like "so and so has been a bit slow paying my last couple of bills, has anyone else had any problem with them?" which would be completely true and unactionable (I hope!) but would convey the necessary warning.