Advanced Energy Industries, Inc AEIS

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
75/100
Moderate

About Advanced Energy Industries, Inc

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. provides precision power conversion, measurement, and control solutions in the United States, Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company's plasma power products offer solutions to enable innovation for semiconductor and thin film plasma processes, such as dry etch and deposition. It also provides high and low voltage power products used in a range of applications, such as … Full AEIS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 37.7% (top 18%) and operating margin at 9.3% (top 18%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.81), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.

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Pricing Power

Strong
82

Where AEIS ranks in Electrical Equipment & Parts

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc ranks #10 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts by moat score — the top 18%. The widest moat in the group is Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. (ESP) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near AEIS in Electrical Equipment & Parts
# Company Moat score Rating
6 Hayward Holdings, Inc. HAYW 78/100 Strong
7 EnerSys ENS 77/100 Strong
8 Preformed Line Products Company PLPC 76/100 Strong
9 nVent Electric plc NVT 76/100 Strong
10 Advanced Energy Industries, Inc AEIS 75/100 Moderate
11 Energizer Holdings, Inc. ENR 73/100 Moderate
12 Kimball Electronics, Inc. KE 69/100 Moderate
13 Electrovaya Inc. ELVA 65/100 Moderate
14 SDSTW SDSTW 62/100 Moderate

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How AEIS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 82 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 82 · 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 80 · 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 70 · 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 66 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding AEIS's moat

What is Advanced Energy Industries, Inc's moat score?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc (AEIS) scores 74 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #10 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts, the top 18%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 54 companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (82/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (66/100).

How does Advanced Energy Industries, Inc compare with other Electrical Equipment & Parts companies?

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc ranks #10 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts by moat score. The widest moat in Electrical Equipment & Parts is Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. (ESP) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are nVent Electric plc (NVT) at 76 just above it and Energizer Holdings, Inc. (ENR) at 73 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 54 companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Advanced Energy Industries, 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 Advanced Energy Industries, Inc?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and AEIS scores: Pricing Power (82), Cost Advantage (82), Customer Stickiness (80), Capital Efficiency (66), Resilience (70), Scale & Market Position (66). 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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