Alamo Group, Inc. ALG

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
73/100
Moderate

About Alamo Group, Inc.

Alamo Group Inc. designs, manufactures, and services vegetation management and infrastructure maintenance equipment for governmental, industrial, and agricultural uses worldwide. It operates through two segments, Vegetation Management and Industrial Equipment. The company offers rotary, finishing, flail, disc mowers, remote control, industrial grass, commercial and high end residential zero turn, mechanical boom, quick-attach boom, off-road chassis mounted, and reach mowers; rock … Full ALG analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 1.00), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.82), with robust interest coverage.

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Pricing Power

Strong
79

Where ALG ranks in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery

Alamo Group, Inc. ranks #2 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score — the top 7%. The widest moat in the group is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) at 80/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near ALG in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
# Company Moat score Rating
1 Caterpillar, Inc. CAT 80/100 Strong
2 Alamo Group, Inc. ALG 73/100 Moderate
3 Deere & Company DE 72/100 Moderate
4 Lindsay Corporation LNN 68/100 Moderate
5 Gencor Industries, Inc. GENC 67/100 Moderate
6 Blue Bird Corporation BLBD 67/100 Moderate
7 Oshkosh Corporation (Holding Co OSK 66/100 Moderate
8 CNH Industrial N.V. CNH 65/100 Moderate
9 PACCAR Inc. PCAR 65/100 Moderate

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How ALG scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 79 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 59 · 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 81 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 75 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 85 · 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 53 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding ALG's moat

What is Alamo Group, Inc.'s moat score?

Alamo Group, Inc. (ALG) scores 73 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #2 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery, the top 7%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 28 companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery. Its strongest defense is Resilience (85/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (53/100).

How does Alamo Group, Inc. compare with other Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery companies?

Alamo Group, Inc. ranks #2 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) at 80 just above it and Deere & Company (DE) at 72 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 28 companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Alamo Group, 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 Alamo Group, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ALG scores: Pricing Power (79), Cost Advantage (59), Customer Stickiness (81), Capital Efficiency (75), Resilience (85), Scale & Market Position (53). 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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