POSCO Holdings Inc.
PKX Basic Materials Steel
POSCO Holdings Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $48.3 billion, down 6.09% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.70%, EPS grew 271.4%, free cash flow fell 156.8% and total debt rose 31.8%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.
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POSCO Holdings Inc. (PKX) Altman Z-score
POSCO Holdings Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 1.96, in the grey zone (1.81–2.99).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1.96 | (0.03) |
| FY2024 | 2.00 | (0.40) |
| FY2023 | 2.39 | 0.07 |
| FY2022 | 2.32 | (0.25) |
| FY2021 | 2.57 | 0.20 |
| FY2020 | 2.37 | (0.04) |
| FY2019 | 2.41 | 0.04 |
| FY2018 | 2.37 | (0.01) |
| FY2017 | 2.38 | 0.42 |
| FY2016 | 1.96 | 0.08 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.19 | — | 0.23 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.51 | — | 0.71 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.01 | — | 0.05 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.54 | — | 0.32 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.66 | — | 0.66 | |
| Altman Z-score | Grey zone | 1.96 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Safe zone | 4.55 | ||
Z and Z″ put POSCO Holdings Inc. in different zones: grey zone by Z, safe 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 |
|---|---|
| SIM Grupo Simec, S.A. de C.V. compare | 6.7× |
| RS Reliance, Inc. compare | 5.9× |
| STLD Steel Dynamics, Inc. compare | 5.0× |
| NUE Nucor Corporation compare | 4.4× |
| GGB Gerdau S.A. compare | 2.6× |
| TX Ternium S.A. compare | 2.4× |
| PKX POSCO Holdings Inc. | 2.0× |
| MT ArcelorMittal compare | 1.8× |
| CLF Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. compare | 1.1× |
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