AngloGold Ashanti plc operates as a gold mining company in Africa, Australia, and the Americas. It primarily explores for gold, as well as by-products, including silver and sulphuric acid. The company's flagship property includes 100% owned the Geita mine located in the Lake Victoria goldfields of the Mwanza region in north-western Tanzania. AngloGold Ashanti plc was incorporated in 1944 and …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 93.6th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Cash Generation ConsistentCash generation is consistent (score 0.86), indicating reliable business model.
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against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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AngloGold Ashanti PLC ranks #11 of 49
scored companies in Gold by moat score — the top 22%.
The widest moat in the group is Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM)
at 78/100.
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 82
· 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 71
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 76
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 59
· 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 56
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
AngloGold Ashanti PLC (AU) scores 68 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #11 of 49 scored companies in Gold, the top 22%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 48 companies in Gold. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (82/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (56/100).
How does AngloGold Ashanti PLC compare with other Gold companies?
AngloGold Ashanti PLC ranks #11 of 49 scored companies in Gold by moat score. The widest moat in Gold is Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) at 78/100. The companies ranked closest are Kinross Gold Corporation (KGC) at 70 just above it and Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. (IDR) at 64 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 48 companies in Gold. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is AngloGold Ashanti PLC 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 AngloGold Ashanti PLC?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and AU scores: Pricing Power (63), Cost Advantage (82), Customer Stickiness (71), Capital Efficiency (76), Resilience (59), Scale & Market Position (56). 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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