Bally's Corporation BALY

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-cyclical

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
25/100
Weak

About Bally's Corporation

Bally's Corporation is a fast-growing global entertainment brand with 19 casinos across 11 US states and one casino in Newcastle, UK, along with a golf course in New York and a horse racetrack in Colorado. Bally's also owns Bally Bet, a first-in-class sports betting and igaming platform, licensed in 13 jurisdictions in North America. Bally's holds a majority interest in … Full BALY analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 12.5th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Below-Peer Operating Efficiency Operating margin at 5.9th 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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Pricing Power

Developing
38

Where BALY ranks in Resorts & Casinos

Bally's Corporation ranks #16 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score — the top 89%. The widest moat in the group is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near BALY in Resorts & Casinos
# Company Moat score Rating
10 MGM Resorts International MGM 51/100 Moderate
11 Studio City International Holdi MSC 50/100 Developing
12 Marriott Vacations Worldwide Co VAC 48/100 Developing
13 Melco Resorts & Entertainment L MLCO 43/100 Developing
14 Golden Entertainment, Inc. GDEN 39/100 Developing
15 Century Casinos, Inc. CNTY 34/100 Developing
16 Bally's Corporation BALY 25/100 Weak
17 PENN Entertainment, Inc. PENN 25/100 Weak
18 Full House Resorts, Inc. FLL 24/100 Weak

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How BALY scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 38 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 9 · 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 12 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 16 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 20 · 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 44 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding BALY's moat

What is Bally's Corporation's moat score?

Bally's Corporation (BALY) scores 25 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #16 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos, the top 89%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (44/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (9/100).

How does Bally's Corporation compare with other Resorts & Casinos companies?

Bally's Corporation ranks #16 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score. The widest moat in Resorts & Casinos is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Century Casinos, Inc. (CNTY) at 34 just above it and PENN Entertainment, Inc. (PENN) at 25 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 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Bally's Corporation 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 Bally's Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BALY scores: Pricing Power (38), Cost Advantage (9), Customer Stickiness (12), Capital Efficiency (16), Resilience (20), Scale & Market Position (44). 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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