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UTI · CIK 0001261654 · FY2025 live · 2025-09-30

UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC

GreySEC 10-KZ″Unclassified73rd percentile in Unclassified · 95 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

1.91

Zone

Grey

Prior

Market DD

1y PD

Meridian Rank

57.55

0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    60

  • Year change

  • Market PD

  • O-score

    51

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.

No published events on this print.

1.91

Classic Z 1.94

−21.12.68+

Z″ 1.91 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.

Z″ factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

    Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.

    0.02
    6.56 × = 0.13
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

    Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.

    0.12
    3.26 × = 0.40
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    0.10
    6.72 × = 0.68
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

    Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.

    0.66
    1.05 × = 0.69

Five-year path

Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.

Overview

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UNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC is on Z″ at 1.91 (grey) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Book equity / liabilities is the line that sets the print; EBIT / assets is the runner-up. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ drops sales/assets so asset-light names are not punished for turnover. X4 is book equity on every name.

Book screen Grey; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.

Market DD · naive Merton

No market tape yet.

Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.

Sector peers

Closest Z″ scores · 73rd percentile in Unclassified.

KPI widgets

Current assets

$247M

Total assets

$826M

Current liabilities

$230M

Total liabilities

$498M

Working capital

$17M

Retained earnings

$102M

EBIT

$83M

Total sales

$836M

Book equity

$328M

Accession 0001261654-25-000025. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-09-30). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.