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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. SBH
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (SBH) earns a Piotroski F-score of 8/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It does not currently pay a dividend. FY2025 revenue was $3.7B at a 5.3% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.62 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Retail Trade · percentile among 238 companies
Percentile vs other Retail Trade companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 8/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.253 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.313 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.114 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.382 |
Sector peers · similar-size Retail Trade companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBH | Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. | 8/9 | 3.85 | 7 | -0.4% |
| TITN | Titan Machinery Inc. | 5/9 | 2.47 | — | -10.2% |
| SGU | STAR GROUP, L.P. | 7/9 | — | 5.8 | +1% |
| FLWS | 1 800 FLOWERS COM INC | 3/9 | -0.43 | — | -8% |
| NEGG | Newegg Commerce, Inc. | 4/9 | 0.62 | — | +16.9% |
| LESL | Leslie's, Inc. | 3/9 | -3.14 | — | -6.6% |
| BARK | Bark, Inc. | 4/9 | -6.67 | — | -18.5% |
About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies. The company operates through two segments, Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group. The Sally Beauty Supply segment offers beauty products, including hair color and care products, skin and nail care products, styling tools, and other beauty products for retail customers, salons, and salon professionals. This segment also provides products under Wella and L'Oreal brands, as well as Clairol, OPI, Wahl, and BaByliss Pro. The Beauty Systems Group segment offers professional beauty products, such as hair color and care products, skin and nail care products, styling tools, and other beauty items directly to salons, and licensed beauty professionals, and salon professionals through its professional-only stores, e-commerce platforms, and sales force, as well as through franchised stores under the Armstrong McCall store name. This segment also sells products under Paul Mitchell and Wella brands, including Matrix, Schwarzkopf, Kenra, Goldwell, Joico, Amika, and Moroccanoil. In addition, it operates company-operated stores, salon business consultants, digital platforms and franchised units in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Chile, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Further, the company distributes its products through full-service/exclusive distributors and open-line distributors. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
FAQ
Is SBH financially healthy?
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s Piotroski F-score is 8/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does SBH pay a dividend?
No, Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. does not currently pay a dividend.
How profitable is SBH?
In FY2025, Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. had a net margin of 5.3% and a return on equity of 24.7%.
Is SBH overvalued or undervalued?
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. trades at about 8.8× trailing earnings — near its 10-year norm (10-year range 5.0×–17.3×, median 8.5×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for SBH?
The average Wall-Street price target for Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is $16.40, about 1.0% below the recent price, from 5 analysts (consensus: buy).
Is SBH a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.: a Piotroski F-score of 8/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 7.0×. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-09-30. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.