Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. APT

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
52/100
Moderate

About Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets a range of disposable protective apparel and infection control products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two business segments, Building Supply and Disposable Protective Apparel. The Building Supply segment offers construction supply weatherization products, such as housewraps; housewrap accessories, including window and door flashing, … Full APT analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.83), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.97), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 37.5th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Weak or Negative Cash Flow Cash generation is weak (score 0.23), limiting financial flexibility.

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

Moderate
67

Where APT ranks in Building Products & Equipment

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. ranks #16 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score — the top 46%. The widest moat in the group is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near APT in Building Products & Equipment
# Company Moat score Rating
12 Limbach Holdings, Inc. LMB 60/100 Moderate
13 Janus International Group, Inc. JBI 59/100 Moderate
14 Gibraltar Industries, Inc. ROCK 58/100 Moderate
15 Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc FBIN 57/100 Moderate
16 Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. APT 52/100 Moderate
17 AAON, Inc. AAON 50/100 Developing
18 Apogee Enterprises, Inc. APOG 49/100 Developing
19 Arlo Technologies, Inc. ARLO 48/100 Developing
20 Carrier Global Corporation CARR 45/100 Developing

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How APT scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 67 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 27 · 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 39 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 51 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 69 · 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 49 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding APT's moat

What is Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd.'s moat score?

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. (APT) scores 52 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #16 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment, the top 46%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. Its strongest defense is Resilience (69/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (27/100).

How does Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. compare with other Building Products & Equipment companies?

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. ranks #16 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Building Products & Equipment is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc (FBIN) at 57 just above it and AAON, Inc. (AAON) at 50 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 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. 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 Pro Tech, Ltd.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and APT scores: Pricing Power (67), Cost Advantage (27), Customer Stickiness (39), Capital Efficiency (51), Resilience (69), Scale & Market Position (49). 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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