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HCWC · CIK 0001948864 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

HEALTHY CHOICE WELLNESS CORP.

DistressSEC 10-KZ″Consumer23rd percentile in Consumer · 430 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

−1.19

Zone

Distress

Prior

Market DD

1y PD

−1.19

Classic Z 1.96

−21.12.68+

Z″ −1.19 · 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.

    −0.08
    6.56 × = −0.53
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    −0.14
    3.26 × = −0.45
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    −0.07
    6.72 × = −0.50
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

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

    0.28
    1.05 × = 0.29

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.

Meridian Rank

21

0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    24

  • Year change

  • Market PD

  • O-score

    13

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.

  • Market PD unavailable

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Overview

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HEALTHY CHOICE WELLNESS CORP. is on Z″ at −1.19 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Working capital / assets is the line that sets the print; EBIT / assets is the runner-up. 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 · 23rd percentile in Consumer.

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Current assets

$10M

Total assets

$33M

Current liabilities

$13M

Total liabilities

$26M

Working capital

−$3M

Retained earnings

−$5M

EBIT

−$2M

Total sales

$78M

Book equity

$7M

Accession 0001493152-26-010208. 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.