STCB · CIK 0001539850 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
Starco Brands, Inc.
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Model
Z″
FY2025
−12.83
Zone
Distress
Prior
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Market DD
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1y PD
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−12.83
Classic Z −5.63
Z″ −12.83 · 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.
−0.046.56 × = −0.25X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
−2.853.26 × = −9.31X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
−0.526.72 × = −3.52X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
0.241.05 × = 0.25
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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Starco Brands, Inc. is on Z″ at −12.83 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Retained earnings / assets is the line that sets the print. 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 Distress; 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 · 6th percentile in Industrials.
- TOURDistressTuniu Corp−12.51
- CNTMDistressConnectM Technology Solutions, Inc.−12.43
- SGLYDistressSingularity Future Technology Ltd.−12.32
- NOTEDistressFiscalNote Holdings, Inc.−12.08
- SPCEDistressVirgin Galactic Holdings, Inc−11.68
- UPDistressWheels Up Experience Inc.−14.24
- EPWKFDistressEPWK Holdings Ltd.−14.40
- INVUDistressInvestview, Inc.−14.41
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Current assets
$12M
Total assets
$36M
Current liabilities
$13M
Total liabilities
$22M
Working capital
−$1M
Retained earnings
−$102M
EBIT
−$19M
Total sales
$0
Book equity
$5M
Accession 0001493152-26-016613. 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 12 Sept 2026.