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POST Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods
Post Holdings, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $8.2 billion, up 2.97% from fiscal 2024.
- Revenue
- −1.83%
- EPS
- −27.7%
- Free cash flow
- +69.7%
- Total debt
- +3.88%
Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier
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Post Holdings, Inc. (POST) Altman Z-score
Post Holdings, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 1.46, 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 | 1.46 | (0.15) |
| FY2024 | 1.61 | 0.20 |
| FY2023 | 1.41 | 0.11 |
| FY2022 | 1.30 | 0.33 |
| FY2021 | 0.96 | 0.02 |
| FY2020 | 0.94 | (0.24) |
| FY2019 | 1.18 | 0.16 |
| FY2018 | 1.02 | 0.03 |
| FY2017 | 1.00 | (0.18) |
| FY2016 | 1.18 | 0.29 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.06 | — | 0.07 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.16 | — | 0.22 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.06 | — | 0.19 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.62 | — | 0.37 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.60 | — | 0.60 | |
| Altman Z-score | Distress zone | 1.46 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Grey zone | 1.71 | ||
Z and Z″ put Post Holdings, Inc. 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 |
|---|---|
| MZTI The Marzetti Company compare | 6.7× |
| FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare | 4.0× |
| INGR Ingredion Incorporated compare | 3.8× |
| PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation compare | 3.6× |
| CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare | 2.6× |
| CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare | 2.5× |
| CPB The Campbell's Company compare | 1.5× |
| POST Post Holdings, Inc. | 1.5× |
| UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare | 0.8× |
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
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