VSNT · CIK 0002067876 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
Versant Media Group, Inc.
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Model
Z″
FY2025
6.99
Zone
Safe
vs FY2024
−3.49
Market DD
3.55σ
1y PD
0.02%
Meridian Rank
62.50
from 65
0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD
Book standing
90
Year change
9
Market PD
40
O-score
98
6.99
Classic Z 4.09
Z″ 6.99 · 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.
0.156.56 × = 1.00X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
0.003.26 × = 0.00X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
0.106.72 × = 0.69X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
5.041.05 × = 5.29
Five-year path
Z″ plus liquidity (working capital / assets) and earnings (EBIT / assets) over the last 2 annual filings.
Overview
llm-v1
Trend
The Z″ path has moved lower from the FY2024 print of 10.48 to the FY2025 print of 6.99, a clear multi-year decline without an upward inflection. The latest reading remains well inside the Safe Zone yet marks a material softening against the prior elevated cushion.
Positioning
VSNT stands at the 99th percentile among the 76 Communication names on the desk tape, far above the median of 0.61 and immediately ahead of nearest peers CALX 6.79, SGA 5.74, IDT 5.36, CXDO 4.31 and SPOK 4.13.
Strategy
The print is set by the book-equity-to-liabilities line (X4) and the EBIT-to-assets line (X3). On the next 10-K monitor any contraction in the book-equity cushion or EBIT margin that would pull the score toward the tape median, while a stable or wider equity buffer relative to liabilities would preserve or lift the rank.
Book screen Safe; market PD 0.02%. Treat as aligned — not a single default call.
Market DD · naive Merton
3.55σ
0.02%1y PD
Market equity
$5.2B
Default point
$1.3B
Equity vol
43.1%
As of
11 Sept 2026
Naive distance-to-default from the Yahoo/Nasdaq tape. Drift is a 4% discount, not the stock’s sample mean. Not mixed into book-equity X4. An iterative Merton pass stayed in the same PD bucket.
Sector peers
Closest Z″ scores · 99th percentile in Communication.
KPI widgets
Current assets
$2.5B
Total assets
$12.3B
Current liabilities
$622M
Total liabilities
$2.0B
Working capital
$1.9B
Retained earnings
$0
EBIT
$1.3B
Total sales
$6.7B
Book equity
$10.3B
Accession 0002067876-26-000010. 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.