Analog Devices, Inc. ADI

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
71/100
Moderate

About Analog Devices, Inc.

Analog Devices, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, testing, and marketing of integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia. It provides data converter products, which translate real-world analog signals into digital data, as well as translates digital data into analog signals; power management … Full ADI analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 61.5% (top 22%) and operating margin at 26.6% (top 15%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.92), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.

Key risks

  • Revenue Volatility Signals Weak Stickiness Revenue volatility is high (stability score 0.31), suggesting weak customer stickiness.

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Pricing Power

Strong
86

Where ADI ranks in Semiconductors

Analog Devices, Inc. ranks #13 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score — the top 20%. The widest moat in the group is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near ADI in Semiconductors
# Company Moat score Rating
9 Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. MPWR 75/100 Strong
10 Credo Technology Group Holding CRDO 73/100 Moderate
11 QUALCOMM Incorporated QCOM 72/100 Moderate
12 Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN 72/100 Moderate
13 Analog Devices, Inc. ADI 71/100 Moderate
14 NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXPI 71/100 Moderate
15 United Microelectronics Corpora UMC 68/100 Moderate
16 Astera Labs, Inc. ALAB 68/100 Moderate
17 Tower Semiconductor Ltd. TSEM 63/100 Moderate

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How ADI scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 86 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 75 · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Score 68 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 66 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 53 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Score 77 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding ADI's moat

What is Analog Devices, Inc.'s moat score?

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) scores 71 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #13 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors, the top 20%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 65 companies in Semiconductors. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (86/100) and its weakest is Resilience (53/100).

How does Analog Devices, Inc. compare with other Semiconductors companies?

Analog Devices, Inc. ranks #13 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score. The widest moat in Semiconductors is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) at 72 just above it and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI) at 71 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 65 companies in Semiconductors. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Analog Devices, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Analog Devices, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ADI scores: Pricing Power (86), Cost Advantage (75), Customer Stickiness (68), Capital Efficiency (66), Resilience (53), Scale & Market Position (77). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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