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T · CIK 0000732717 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

AT&T INC.

DistressSEC 10-KZ″Communication56th percentile in Communication · 76 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

0.88

Zone

Distress

vs FY2024

+0.35

Market DD

1y PD

Meridian Rank

59.40

0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    45

  • Year change

    72

  • Market PD

  • O-score

    81

Events on this name

Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.

  • MARKET PD UNAVAILABLE

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    • mertonPd: — → —

0.88

Classic Z 0.79

−21.12.68+

Z″ 0.88 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.

FY2016SEC 10-K printsFY2025 · 0.88

Z″ factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

    Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.

    −0.01
    6.56 × = −0.08
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    0.04
    3.26 × = 0.12
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    0.06
    6.72 × = 0.39
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

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

    0.43
    1.05 × = 0.45

Five-year path

Z″ plus liquidity (working capital / assets) and earnings (EBIT / assets) over the last 5 annual filings.

Overview

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AT&T INC. is on Z″ at 0.88 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Book equity / liabilities is the line that sets the print; EBIT / assets is the runner-up. Versus FY2024 the live print is still distress (+0.35 from 0.53). 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 emphasizes wireless postpaid net adds and a still-heavy net-debt load after the WarnerMedia unwind. The MD&A describes fiber build-out as the growth capex priority, with a dividend that has already been reset. Leverage reduction remains a stated goal, funded by free cash flow after spectrum and fiber spend.

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 · 56th percentile in Communication.

KPI widgets

Current assets

$48.7B

Total assets

$420.2B

Current liabilities

$53.8B

Total liabilities

$293.7B

Working capital

−$5.0B

Retained earnings

$15.8B

EBIT

$24.2B

Total sales

$125.6B

Book equity

$126.5B

Accession 0000732717-26-000120. 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.