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UTZ · CIK 0001739566 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

Utz Brands, Inc.

DistressSEC 10-KClassic ZConsumer24th percentile in Consumer · 112 names

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Model

Classic Z

FY2025

0.70

Zone

Distress

Prior

—

Market DD

—

1y PD

—

Meridian Rank

47.18

0–100 · Classic Z tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    42

  • Year change

    —

  • Market PD

    —

  • O-score

    61

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.

  • Market PD unavailable

    watch · 41

0.70

Z″ 0.33

−21.83.08+

Score 0.70 · 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.

    0.02
    1.2 × = 0.03

  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    −0.12
    1.4 × = −0.16

  • X3 EBIT / assets

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

    0.01
    3.3 × = 0.02

  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

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

    0.49
    0.6 × = 0.30

  • X5 Sales / assets

    Asset turnover — how much revenue the asset base supports.

    0.52
    1 × = 0.52

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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Utz Brands, Inc. is on classic Z at 0.70 (distress) for FY2025, 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 —. 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 Classic Z scores · 24th percentile in Consumer.

KPI widgets

Current assets

$384M

Total assets

$2.8B

Current liabilities

$323M

Total liabilities

$1.4B

Working capital

$61M

Retained earnings

−$327M

EBIT

$20M

Total sales

$1.4B

Book equity

$714M

Accession 0001628280-26-007757. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Classic Z is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.