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POST · CIK 0001530950 · FY2024 live · 2025-09-30

Post Holdings, Inc.

DistressSEC 10-KClassic ZConsumer36th percentile in Consumer · 112 names

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Model

Classic Z

FY2024

1.32

Zone

Distress

Prior

Market DD

1y PD

1.32

Z″ 1.70

−21.83.08+

Score 1.32 · distress below 1.80, grey to 2.99, safe at 3.00 and above.

Classic Z factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

    Short-term liquidity versus the size of the balance sheet.

    0.06
    1.2 × = 0.07
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    0.16
    1.4 × = 0.22
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in the original model.

    0.06
    3.3 × = 0.19
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

    Book equity versus the liability stack. Mega-caps often look greyer here than they would if X4 used market cap.

    0.38
    0.6 × = 0.23
  • X5 Sales / assets

    Asset turnover — how much revenue the asset base supports.

    0.60
    1 × = 0.60

Five-year path

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

Meridian Rank

53.09

0–100 · Classic Z family

  • Book standing

    52

  • Year change

  • Market PD

  • O-score

    56

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today.

No published events on this print.

Overview

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Post Holdings, Inc. is on classic Z at 1.32 (distress) for FY2024, from an SEC 10-K. Sales / assets is the line that sets the print. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Classic Z was fit on manufacturers; buybacks can send retained earnings negative at otherwise healthy issuers, and X4 is book equity, not market cap.

Book screen Distress; 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 Classic Z scores · 36th percentile in Consumer.

Filing line items

Current assets

$2.0B

Total assets

$13.5B

Current liabilities

$1.2B

Total liabilities

$9.8B

Working capital

$812M

Retained earnings

$2.1B

EBIT

$799M

Total sales

$8.2B

Book equity

$3.8B

Accession 0001530950-25-000260. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2024, period 2025-09-30). Classic Z is the live score. View as is a display overlay. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.