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SBH · CIK 0001368458 · FY2025 live · 2025-09-30

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

SafeSEC 10-KZ″Consumer78th percentile in Consumer · 430 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

3.85

Zone

Safe

Prior

—

Market DD

—

1y PD

—

3.85

Classic Z 2.64

−21.12.68+

Z″ 3.85 · 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.

    0.25
    6.56 × = 1.66

  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    0.31
    3.26 × = 1.02

  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    0.11
    6.72 × = 0.77

  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

    Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names keep turnover from dragging the score.

    0.38
    1.05 × = 0.40

Five-year path

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

Meridian Rank

71.45

0–100 · Z″ family

  • Book standing

    78

  • Year change

    —

  • Market PD

    —

  • O-score

    54

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today.

  • Approaching grey

    watch · 41

    • Live score: — → 3.85
    • Cut: — → 1.10

Overview

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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is on Z″ at 3.85 (safe) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Working capital / assets is the line that sets the print; retained earnings / assets is the runner-up. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ omits sales/assets so asset-light names keep turnover from dragging the score. X4 is book equity on every name.

Book screen Safe; market PD —. Market PD has not been priced on this name.

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 · 78th percentile in Consumer.

Filing line items

Current assets

$1.3B

Total assets

$2.9B

Current liabilities

$576M

Total liabilities

$2.1B

Working capital

$725M

Retained earnings

$898M

EBIT

$328M

Total sales

$3.7B

Book equity

$794M

Accession 0001193125-25-280122. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-09-30). Z″ is the live score. View as is a display overlay. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.