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WBD · CIK 0001437107 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

DistressSEC 10-KZ″Communication45th percentile in Communication · 76 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

0.32

Zone

Distress

vs FY2024

+0.94

Market DD

1y PD

Meridian Rank

60.87

0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    38

  • Year change

    90

  • Market PD

  • O-score

    83

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.

  • Market PD unavailable

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0.32

Classic Z 0.59

−21.12.68+

Z″ 0.32 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.

FY2016SEC 10-K printsFY2025 · 0.32

Z″ factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

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

    0.01
    6.56 × = 0.05
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    −0.12
    3.26 × = −0.37
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    0.01
    6.72 × = 0.05
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

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

    0.57
    1.05 × = 0.60

Five-year path

Z″ plus liquidity (working capital / assets) and earnings (EBIT / assets) over the last 5 annual filings.

Overview

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Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. is on Z″ at 0.32 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Book equity / liabilities is the line that sets the print; retained earnings / assets is the runner-up. Versus FY2024 the live print is still distress (+0.94 from −0.62). 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 Distress; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.

MD&A excerpt

The company highlights post-merger integration, linear-network cord-cutting, and a still-heavy debt stack inherited from the Discovery combination. Management points to content-cost rationalization and sports-rights mix as the path to de-levering. Free cash flow is described as a priority, with asset sales and a pause on the dividend already in place to protect the balance sheet.

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 · 45th percentile in Communication.

KPI widgets

Current assets

$13.2B

Total assets

$100.1B

Current liabilities

$12.5B

Total liabilities

$62.9B

Working capital

$706M

Retained earnings

−$11.5B

EBIT

$738M

Total sales

$37.3B

Book equity

$35.9B

Accession 0001437107-26-000020. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.