AVD · CIK 0000005981 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP
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Model
Classic Z
FY2025
1.68
Zone
Distress
Prior
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Market DD
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1y PD
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1.68
Z″ 2.80
Score 1.68 · 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.
0.271.2 × = 0.32X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
0.261.4 × = 0.36X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in the original model.
−0.053.3 × = −0.16X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Mega-caps often look greyer here than they would if X4 used market cap.
0.480.6 × = 0.29X5 Sales / assets
Asset turnover — how much revenue the asset base supports.
0.861 × = 0.86
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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AMERICAN VANGUARD CORP is on classic Z at 1.68 (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 · 47th percentile in Materials.
KPI widgets
Current assets
$371M
Total assets
$597M
Current liabilities
$209M
Total liabilities
$404M
Working capital
$161M
Retained earnings
$155M
EBIT
−$28M
Total sales
$515M
Book equity
$192M
Accession 0001193125-26-108593. 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 12 Sept 2026.