Competitive advantage assessment
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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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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Altice USA, Inc. ranks #55 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score — the top 98%. The widest moat in the group is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) at 76/100.
| # | Company | Moat score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | Liberty Broadband Corporation - LBRDP | 25/100 | Developing |
| 49 | Liberty Broadband Corporation LBRDK | 25/100 | Weak |
| 50 | SurgePays, Inc. SURG | 23/100 | Weak |
| 51 | KORE Group Holdings, Inc. KORE | 21/100 | Weak |
| 52 | FingerMotion, Inc. FNGR | 19/100 | Weak |
| 53 | Cogent Communications Holdings, CCOI | 17/100 | Weak |
| 54 | PicoCELA Inc. PCLA | 12/100 | Weak |
| 55 | Altice USA, Inc. ATUS | 0/100 | Weak |
| 56 | United States Cellular Corporat USM | 0/100 | Weak |
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
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 matters only when it converts into economics.
Altice USA, Inc. (ATUS) scores 0 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #55 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services, the top 98%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 59 companies in Telecom Services.
Altice USA, Inc. ranks #55 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score. The widest moat in Telecom Services is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) at 76/100. The companies ranked closest are PicoCELA Inc. (PCLA) at 12 just above it and United States Cellular Corporat (USM) at 0 just below it.
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 59 companies in Telecom Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
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.
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ATUS scores: Pricing Power (not measurable), Cost Advantage (not measurable), Customer Stickiness (not measurable), Capital Efficiency (not measurable), Resilience (not measurable), Scale & Market Position (not measurable). 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.