Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. manufactures and sells agricultural equipment, and specialized modular science and agricultural buildings in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Agricultural Products and Modular Buildings. The Agricultural Products segment offers various specialized farm machinery, including portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment and related attachments; forage equipment, such as forage boxes, bale processors, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.91), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.70), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 30.4th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Below-Peer Operating EfficiencyOperating margin at 39.1th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.
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 ARTW ranks in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In ranks #15 of 29
scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score — the top 52%.
The widest moat in the group is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT)
at 80/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near ARTW in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 37
· 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 37
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 45
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 56
· 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 43
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In's moat score?
Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In (ARTW) scores 47 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #15 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery, the top 52%. 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 Pricing Power (61/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (37/100).
How does Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In compare with other Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery companies?
Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In ranks #15 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 AGCO Corporation (AGCO) at 50 just above it and Manitowoc Company, Inc. (The) (MTW) at 45 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 Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In 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 Art's-Way Manufacturing Co., In?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ARTW scores: Pricing Power (61), Cost Advantage (37), Customer Stickiness (37), Capital Efficiency (45), Resilience (56), Scale & Market Position (43). 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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