WBA · CIK 0001618921 · FY2024 live · 2024-08-31
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
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Model
Z″
FY2024
−0.77
Zone
Distress
vs FY2023
−1.10
Market DD
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1y PD
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−0.77
Classic Z 1.62
Z″ −0.77 · 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.
−0.116.56 × = −0.70X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
0.293.26 × = 0.94X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
−0.176.72 × = −1.17X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
0.151.05 × = 0.16
Five-year path
Z″ plus liquidity (working capital / assets) and earnings (EBIT / assets) over the last 5 annual filings.
Overview
rule-v1
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is on Z″ at −0.77 (distress) for FY2024, from an SEC 10-K. EBIT / assets is the line that sets the print; retained earnings / assets is the runner-up. Versus FY2023 the live print is still distress (−1.10 from 0.33). 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
Management discusses a multi-year turnaround after several years of retail-pharmacy margin compression, opioid-related legal cash outflows, and a stretched balance sheet. The company highlights store-closure programs, working-capital extraction, and a review of non-core assets to protect liquidity. Covenant headroom on revolving facilities is described as adequate near term, but free cash flow remains sensitive to reimbursement rates and the pace of the footprint reset.
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 · 32nd percentile in Healthcare.
KPI widgets
Current assets
$18.3B
Total assets
$81.0B
Current liabilities
$27.0B
Total liabilities
$68.9B
Working capital
−$8.6B
Retained earnings
$23.3B
EBIT
−$14.1B
Total sales
$147.7B
Book equity
$10.4B
Accession 0001618921-24-000084. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2024, period 2024-08-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.