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PARA · CIK 0000813828 · FY2024 live · 2024-12-31

Paramount Global

DistressEntered vs prior FYSEC 10-KZ″PD 76.6%Communication53rd percentile in Communication · 76 names

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Model

Z″

FY2024

0.75

Zone

Distress

vs FY2023

−1.17

Market DD

−0.73σ

1y PD

76.6%

Meridian Rank

26.45

0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD

  • Book standing

    43

  • Year change

    14

  • Market PD

    0

  • O-score

    43

0.75

Classic Z 0.89

−21.12.68+

Z″ 0.75 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.

FY2016Annual 10-K printsFY2025 · 1.28

Z″ factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

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

    0.06
    6.56 × = 0.41
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

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

    0.16
    3.26 × = 0.53
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    −0.11
    6.72 × = −0.77
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

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

    0.55
    1.05 × = 0.57

Five-year path

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

Overview

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Trend

The multi-year Z″ path has advanced overall from deeply negative territory toward a modeled 1.28, yet an inflection after the early-2020s peak drove a steady slide through the grey zone into distress. The latest print of 0.749 sits at that trough against the longer recovery arc and remains well below the 1.10 distress threshold even as the forward modeled reading turns higher.

Positioning

PARA ranks at the 53rd percentile among 76 Communication names, above the tape median of 0.61 and nearest IRDM at 0.75, with PSKY 0.67, T 0.88, GLIBA 0.61 and SSP 0.60 as the closest surrounding prints.

Strategy

Negative EBIT and book equity relative to total liabilities are the two statement lines that set this 0.749 print. On the next 10-K a credit analyst would monitor whether EBIT/TA moves back above zero to lift the score out of distress, while any further contraction in working capital or retained earnings would weaken the percentile standing versus the tape.

Book screen Distress; market PD 76.6%. Treat as aligned — not a single default call.

MD&A excerpt

Management frames linear-network audience erosion against streaming-scale investment, with content amortization remaining the largest cash use. The MD&A discusses a proposed combination and cost-synergy plan, while noting that advertising and affiliate-fee declines in traditional TV have not been fully replaced by streaming revenue. Liquidity is supported by a revolving credit facility and content-library residual value, with leverage covenants described as currently met.

Market DD · naive Merton

−0.73σ

76.6%1y PD

  • Market equity

    $4M

  • Default point

    $19.7B

  • Equity vol

    150.7%

  • 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 · 53rd percentile in Communication.

KPI widgets

Current assets

$12.5B

Total assets

$46.2B

Current liabilities

$9.6B

Total liabilities

$29.9B

Working capital

$2.9B

Retained earnings

$7.5B

EBIT

−$5.3B

Total sales

$29.2B

Book equity

$16.3B

Accession 0000813828-25-000005. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2024, period 2024-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.