Alarum Technologies Ltd. ALAR

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Software & SaaS Specialized
Overall moat score
51/100
Moderate

About Alarum Technologies Ltd.

Alarum Technologies Ltd. provides web data collection solutions in North, South, and Central America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It also provides static residential proxy network, rotating residential proxy network, data center proxy network, premium dedicated static residential proxies, mobile proxies, search engine results page data collection service, and social data collection service, as well as website … Full ALAR analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • R&D Reinvestment Supports Growth R&D commitment is strong relative to peers (score 0.63).
  • Deferred Revenue Momentum Contracted demand signals are healthy (score 0.73), consistent with recurring revenue strength.

Key risks

  • Weak Cash Conversion Cash conversion is weak (score 0.30), limiting evidence of scalable cash generation.
  • Lumpy Revenue Trajectory Revenue consistency is weak (score 0.36), suggesting demand may be less recurring than peers.

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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Pricing Power

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Where ALAR ranks in Software - Infrastructure

Alarum Technologies Ltd. ranks #93 of 176 scored companies in Software - Infrastructure by moat score — the top 53%. The widest moat in the group is Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) at 78/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near ALAR in Software - Infrastructure
# Company Moat score Rating
89 Confluent, Inc. CFLT 52/100 Moderate
90 SentinelOne, Inc. S 52/100 Moderate
91 Cognyte Software Ltd. CGNT 52/100 Moderate
92 PowerFleet, Inc. AIOT 51/100 Moderate
93 Alarum Technologies Ltd. ALAR 51/100 Moderate
94 BlackBerry Limited BB 51/100 Moderate
95 Lesaka Technologies, Inc. LSAK 51/100 Moderate
96 SailPoint, Inc. SAIL 51/100 Moderate
97 Bandwidth Inc. BAND 50/100 Moderate

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How ALAR scores on the Software & SaaS Specialized defenses

Pricing Power

Score 39 · 20% of the moat score

In software, pricing power is visible in gross margin: a vendor that has to discount in order to renew gives it up first.

Recurring Revenue Stickiness

Score 56 · 18% of the moat score

Recurring revenue is the model's central claim, and it is a moat only when customers renew and expand without being re-sold each year.

Innovation Engine

Score 63 · 16% of the moat score

Software is competed away rather than depreciated, so a vendor that stops investing loses its category.

Cash Scalability

Score 54 · 18% of the moat score

The test of a software business is whether growth eventually stops consuming cash.

Capital Efficiency

Score 42 · 16% of the moat score

A software platform employs very little capital, so a genuine franchise should produce high returns on it without leverage.

Balance Sheet Resilience

Score 58 · 12% of the moat score

Software companies fund years of customer acquisition before those customers pay back, which makes access to capital a strategic variable rather than a treasury detail.

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Understanding ALAR's moat

What is Alarum Technologies Ltd.'s moat score?

Alarum Technologies Ltd. (ALAR) scores 51 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #93 of 176 scored companies in Software - Infrastructure, the top 53%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 175 companies in Software - Infrastructure. Its strongest defense is Innovation Engine (63/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (39/100).

How does Alarum Technologies Ltd. compare with other Software - Infrastructure companies?

Alarum Technologies Ltd. ranks #93 of 176 scored companies in Software - Infrastructure by moat score. The widest moat in Software - Infrastructure is Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) at 78/100. The companies ranked closest are PowerFleet, Inc. (AIOT) at 51 just above it and BlackBerry Limited (BB) at 51 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Software & SaaS Specialized 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 175 companies in Software - Infrastructure. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Alarum Technologies Ltd. scored with the Software & SaaS Specialized template?

Software costs almost nothing to reproduce, so the entire economic question is whether customers keep paying. Revenue is a subscription rather than a sale, the cost of winning a customer is paid years before that customer becomes profitable, and margins arrive only if renewals hold. The Software & SaaS template scores retention, reinvestment, and the point at which growth turns into cash.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Alarum Technologies Ltd.?

The Software & SaaS Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and ALAR scores: Pricing Power (39), Recurring Revenue Stickiness (56), Innovation Engine (63), Cash Scalability (54), Capital Efficiency (42), Balance Sheet Resilience (58). 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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