Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc.
WVVI Consumer Defensive Beverages Wineries & Distilleries
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $37.2 million, down 6.50% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 1.56%, EPS fell 344.4%, free cash flow grew 54.7% and total debt fell 10.0%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Insiders bought in the last twelve months.
Follow WVVI
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. (WVVI) Altman Z-score
Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 0.98, in the distress zone (below 1.81).
Altman Z-score, annual
Embed this chart
Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 0.98 | (0.14) |
| FY2024 | 1.12 | (0.14) |
| FY2023 | 1.26 | (0.24) |
| FY2022 | 1.50 | (0.67) |
| FY2021 | 2.17 | (0.15) |
| FY2020 | 2.32 | (0.16) |
| FY2019 | 2.48 | (0.52) |
| FY2018 | 3.00 | (0.13) |
| FY2017 | 3.13 | (0.91) |
| FY2016 | 4.04 | 0.51 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.23 | — | 0.27 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.13 | — | 0.18 | |
| EBIT / total assets | (0.01) | — | −0.04 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.36 | — | 0.22 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.35 | — | 0.35 | |
| Altman Z-score | Distress zone | 0.98 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Safe zone | 3.51 | ||
Z and Z″ put Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. in different zones: distress 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 |
|---|---|
| EPSM Epsium Enterprise Limited compare | 10.7× |
| AGCC Agencia Comercial Spirits Ltd compare | 5.9× |
| BF.A Brown Forman Corporation compare | 4.1× |
| MGPI MGP Ingredients, Inc. compare | 1.6× |
| SNDL SNDL Inc. compare | 1.2× |
| WVVI Willamette Valley Vineyards, Inc. | 1.0× |
| YHC LQR House Inc. compare | −1.6× |
| IBG Innovation Beverage Group Limited compare | −31.4× |
| EDVA Splash Beverage Group, Inc. compare | −331× |
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