Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. distributes industrial motion, power, control, and automation technology solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Costa Rica. It operates in two segments, Service Center and Engineered Solutions. The Service Center segment distributes industrial bearings, power transmission, fluid power components and systems, specialty flow control, and advanced factory automation solutions, as well …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 68.4th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative LeverageDebt serviceability is strong (score 0.79), with robust interest coverage.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Applied Industrial Technologies ranks #3 of 21
scored companies in Industrial Distribution by moat score — the top 14%.
The widest moat in the group is Fastenal Company (FAST)
at 91/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near AIT in Industrial Distribution
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 78
· 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 76
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 77
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 78
· 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 79
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Applied Industrial Technologies's moat score?
Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT) scores 76 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #3 of 21 scored companies in Industrial Distribution, the top 14%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 20 companies in Industrial Distribution. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (79/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (68/100).
How does Applied Industrial Technologies compare with other Industrial Distribution companies?
Applied Industrial Technologies ranks #3 of 21 scored companies in Industrial Distribution by moat score. The widest moat in Industrial Distribution is Fastenal Company (FAST) at 91/100. The companies ranked closest are W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW) at 77 just above it and Watsco, Inc. (WSO-B) at 70 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 20 companies in Industrial Distribution. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Applied Industrial Technologies 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 Applied Industrial Technologies?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and AIT scores: Pricing Power (68), Cost Advantage (78), Customer Stickiness (76), Capital Efficiency (77), Resilience (78), Scale & Market Position (79). 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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