Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. - Sponsored ADR

VIST Energy Oil & Gas E&P

Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. - Sponsored ADR’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.5 billion, up 50.2% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 102.3%, EPS grew 35.3%, free cash flow grew 195.8% and total debt rose 40.9%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for three consecutive years.

72.12 2.13 +3.04%
Market cap
$7.8B
P/E
9.1×
Fwd P/E
11.4×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
1.92
Beneish M
−2.15
Dividend safety
n/a

Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. - Sponsored ADR (VIST) Altman Z-score

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Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. - Sponsored ADR's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 1.92, 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 1.92 (0.49)
FY2024 2.40 (0.41)
FY2023 2.82 0.58
FY2022 2.24 1.23
FY2021 1.01 1.05
FY2020 −0.04 (0.95)
FY2019 0.90 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Working capital / total assets (0.02) — −0.02
Retained earnings / total assets 0.26 — 0.36
EBIT / total assets 0.18 — 0.58
Market value of equity / total liabilities 1.08 — 0.65
Sales / total assets 0.35 — 0.35
Altman Z-score Grey zone 1.92
Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) Grey zone 2.47

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 zoneabove 2.99above 2.60
Grey zone1.81–2.991.10–2.60
Distress zonebelow 1.81below 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.

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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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