Liberty Global Ltd
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Liberty Global Ltd’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $4.9 billion, up 12.4% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 7.65%, EPS grew 86.8%, free cash flow grew 429.7% and total debt fell 14.8%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for three consecutive years.
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Liberty Global Ltd (LBTYB) Altman Z-score
Liberty Global Ltd's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 0.73, in the distress zone (below 1.81).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 0.73 | (0.33) |
| FY2024 | 1.07 | 0.24 |
| FY2023 | 0.83 | (0.26) |
| FY2022 | 1.08 | (0.26) |
| FY2021 | 1.34 | 0.70 |
| FY2020 | 0.64 | (0.13) |
| FY2019 | 0.77 | 0.57 |
| FY2018 | 0.20 | (0.12) |
| FY2017 | 0.33 | (0.14) |
| FY2016 | 0.47 | (0.01) |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.01 | — | 0.01 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.23 | — | 0.32 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.00 | — | −0.00 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.32 | — | 0.19 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.22 | — | 0.22 | |
| Altman Z-score | Distress zone | 0.73 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Grey zone | 1.62 | ||
Z and Z″ put Liberty Global Ltd in different zones: distress zone by Z, grey zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
| Company | Altman Z-score |
|---|---|
| TIMB TIM S.A. Sponsored ADR compare | 2.0× |
| TKC Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS compare | 1.9× |
| KT KT Corporation compare | 1.7× |
| GSAT Globalstar, Inc. compare | 1.3× |
| IRDM Iridium Communications Inc compare | 1.0× |
| PHI PLDT Inc. compare | 0.8× |
| VEON VEON Ltd. compare | 0.8× |
| LBTYB Liberty Global Ltd | 0.7× |
| LUMN Lumen Technologies, Inc. compare | −0.3× |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets