Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., a mining company, produces, processes, and sells met and thermal coal in Virginia and West Virginia. The company provides metallurgical coal products. It operates twenty active mines and eight active coal preparation and load-out facilities. The company was formerly known as Contura Energy, Inc. and changed its name to Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. in February 2021. …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.85), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
Commodity Pressure / Weak DifferentiationGross margin at 6.1th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 30.3th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
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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Where AMR ranks in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, ranks #22 of 36
scored companies in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials by moat score — the top 61%.
The widest moat in the group is United States Lime & Minerals, (USLM)
at 82/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near AMR in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 67
· 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 30
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 14
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 61
· 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 19
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Alpha Metallurgical Resources, 's moat score?
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, (AMR) scores 33 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #22 of 36 scored companies in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials, the top 61%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 35 companies in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (67/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (14/100).
How does Alpha Metallurgical Resources, compare with other Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials companies?
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, ranks #22 of 36 scored companies in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials by moat score. The widest moat in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials is United States Lime & Minerals, (USLM) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Clearwater Paper Corporation (CLW) at 34 just above it and Captivision Inc. (CAPT) at 33 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 35 companies in Materials: Construction, Forest & Carbon Materials. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Alpha Metallurgical Resources, 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 Alpha Metallurgical Resources, ?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and AMR scores: Pricing Power (14), Cost Advantage (67), Customer Stickiness (30), Capital Efficiency (14), Resilience (61), Scale & Market Position (19). 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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