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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

WBA

Consumer Discretionary · Retail-Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

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Signs3 good3 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY24FY23FY22FY21FY20FY19
Revenue$147.66B$139.08B$132.70B$132.51B$121.98B$120.07B
Operating income−$14.08B−$6.88B$1.39B$2.34B$982.0M$4.77B
Net income−$8.64B−$3.08B$4.34B$2.54B$456.0M$3.98B
Total assets$81.04B$96.63B$90.12B$81.28B$87.17B$67.60B
Total liabilities$68.86B$68.14B$59.72B$57.15B$66.04B
Equity$10.45B$20.02B$25.27B$23.42B$20.64B$23.51B
EPS (diluted)$-10.01$-3.57$5.01$2.93$0.52$4.31
Shares out.864.6M863.9M864.8M865.6M865.9M892.5M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2024
Operating margin
−9.5%
Net margin
−5.8%
Return on equity
−82.7%
Return on assets
−10.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
−26.0%
Liabilities / assets
85.0%
Debt / equity
6.59×
Book value / share
$12.08
Revenue growth (YoY)
6.2%
Net income growth (YoY)

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2024
Altman Z″ (distress)
-0.77distress
Accruals / assets
11.9%clean
Piotroski F-Score
4/9mixed

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
58
/ 100
Profitability 0Growth 100Catalyst 67Earnings quality 100Financial strength 25

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Signs

1 severe3 warning3 good
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Operating losses (negative operating margin)
  • Reported a net loss
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

5%+ owners

SEC Schedule 13D / 13G · last 3 yrs

Holders who disclosed a 5%+ stake. 13D signals intent to influence or control; 13G is a passive holding. Latest filing per holder — open it for the exact stake.

Insider transactions

SEC Form 4 · most recent
0 acquisitions11 disposalsnet 5.9M shares · last 11
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Fabbri Beth Amber L.Officer — SVP Chief Corp Affairs OfficerAug 28, 2025D124,670
Mahajan ManmohanOfficer — EVP and Global CFOAug 28, 2025D414,273
Minnix LaneshaOfficer — EVP, Global CLO &amp; Corp. Sec.Aug 28, 2025D348,093
Wentworth Timothy COfficer — Chief Executive OfficerAug 28, 2025D1.3M
Heckman ToddOfficer — SVP, Global Controller and CAOAug 28, 2025D93,037
Langowksi MaryOfficer — EVP, President U.S. HealthcareAug 28, 2025D494,295
Burger ElizabethOfficer — EVP, Global Chief HR OfficerAug 28, 2025D303,875
Brown Tracey DOfficer — EVP, Pres., Walgreens RetailAug 28, 2025D348,051
Gates Richard P.Officer — SVP, Chief Pharmacy OfficerAug 28, 2025D145,444
Barra OrnellaOfficer — Chief Operating Officer, Int'lAug 28, 2025D969,057$11.45
Pessina StefanoOfficer — Executive Chairman of BoardAug 28, 2025D1.3M$11.45

Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.

Short interest

FINRA · bi-monthly
SettlementShares shortDays to coverΔ vs prior
Aug 15, 202522.6M2.9-2.1%
Jul 31, 202523.1M4.0+7.6%
Jul 15, 202521.5M3.5+0.9%
Jun 30, 202521.3M2.7+10.8%
Jun 13, 202519.2M3.2-18.4%

Shares sold short as reported to FINRA. Days-to-cover = short shares ÷ average daily volume — higher means more potential squeeze pressure.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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