A moat is a structural advantage that lets a company defend its profits from competitors. StatsAlpha scores one for 6,106 companies from reported financials — no analyst opinion, no price targets — using 8 industry-specific templates across 11 industry groups.
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The highest moat scores of any company we cover. Scores are percentile-based within an industry, so a place here means standing out among peers rather than posting the biggest raw numbers.
Each group is scored with the template built for its economics. What counts as a moat for a bank — deposits that do not chase rate — is not what counts for a REIT or a software vendor, so the defenses and their weights differ by group.
A moat score rates how well a company can defend its profits from competitors, on a scale of 0 to 100. StatsAlpha computes one for 6,106 companies from reported financials — there is no analyst opinion in it. Each score is a weighted composite of six competitive defenses, every one of them measured as a percentile against comparable companies rather than against an absolute threshold.
Companies are scored with one of 8 industry-specific templates, because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Each template defines six defenses and how much each one weighs; each defense combines several financial signals drawn from the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement. Scores are refreshed weekly.
The leaderboard on this page ranks the highest-scoring companies across all 11 industry groups, and each industry page ranks its own. Because scores are percentile-based within an industry, comparing across industries compares two companies' standing among their own peers rather than their raw financials.
No. A moat score describes the business, not the price. It measures whether a company has the financial signature of a durable advantage — pricing power, cost advantage, customer stickiness — and says nothing about whether that advantage is already reflected in what the shares cost. It is a screen, not a recommendation.