Brookfield Asset Management Inc BAM

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Asset Management Specialized
Overall moat score
56/100
Moderate

About Brookfield Asset Management Inc

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions and growth capital investments. The firm typically invests in renewable power and transition, and infrastructure sectors. Within infrastructure sector, it seeks to invest across the transport, data, utilities and midstream sectors. Within renewable power and transition sector, it seeks to invest in hydro, wind, solar, distributed energy storage … Full BAM analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • High Return on Equity Return on equity ranks highly vs peers (score 0.93).
  • Sticky AUM Base Revenue stickiness is high (stability score 0.67).

Key risks

  • Margin Erosion Trend Margin trend is deteriorating (score 0.37).
  • Volatile Earnings Quality Earnings stability is low (score 0.13).

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Fee Revenue Quality

Moderate
59

Where BAM ranks in Asset Management

Brookfield Asset Management Inc ranks #62 of 173 scored companies in Asset Management by moat score — the top 36%. The widest moat in the group is Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc (SPMC) at 77/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near BAM in Asset Management
# Company Moat score Rating
58 Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. GSBD 57/100 Moderate
59 Barings BDC, Inc. BBDC 57/100 Moderate
60 Ares Capital Corporation ARCC 56/100 Moderate
61 T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. TROW 56/100 Moderate
62 Brookfield Asset Management Inc BAM 56/100 Moderate
63 Hercules Capital, Inc. HTGC 55/100 Moderate
64 Patria Investments Limited PAX 55/100 Moderate
65 Capital Southwest Corporation CSWC 55/100 Moderate
66 RiverNorth Flexible Municipal Income Fund II Inc RFMZ 55/100 Moderate

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How BAM scores on the Asset Management Specialized defenses

Fee Revenue Quality

Score 58 · 20% of the moat score

Fee revenue quality is the ability to charge above the industry's falling average and keep charging it.

Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness

Score 64 · 18% of the moat score

Assets under management leave far more easily than they arrive, and the fee leaves with them.

Compensation Discipline

Score 42 · 18% of the moat score

Compensation is the largest expense in asset management and the one that decides whether a good year ever reaches shareholders.

Capital Efficiency

Score 69 · 20% of the moat score

Asset managers are asset-light: with little capital employed, a healthy business should earn a very high return on equity, and a merely average one is a real warning.

Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion

Score 41 · 14% of the moat score

Reported profits here can be flattered by performance fees, seed-capital gains and consolidated fund accounting, none of which recur reliably.

Balance Sheet Strength

Score 57 · 10% of the moat score

Because the business needs so little capital, an asset manager carrying meaningful debt has usually borrowed to buy another manager or to fund distributions.

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Understanding BAM's moat

What is Brookfield Asset Management Inc's moat score?

Brookfield Asset Management Inc (BAM) scores 56 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #62 of 173 scored companies in Asset Management, the top 36%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 174 companies in Asset Management. Its strongest defense is Capital Efficiency (69/100) and its weakest is Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (41/100).

How does Brookfield Asset Management Inc compare with other Asset Management companies?

Brookfield Asset Management Inc ranks #62 of 173 scored companies in Asset Management by moat score. The widest moat in Asset Management is Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc (SPMC) at 77/100. The companies ranked closest are T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) at 56 just above it and Hercules Capital, Inc. (HTGC) at 55 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Asset Management Specialized 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 174 companies in Asset Management. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Brookfield Asset Management Inc scored with the Asset Management Specialized template?

An asset manager owns almost nothing. It charges a fee on someone else's money, pays much of that fee out in compensation, and keeps the remainder — so its economics turn on the fee rate it can defend, whether client money stays, and how much revenue survives the bonus pool. The Asset Management template scores those questions rather than the balance sheet, which in this industry is largely beside the point.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Brookfield Asset Management Inc?

The Asset Management Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and BAM scores: Fee Revenue Quality (58), Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (64), Compensation Discipline (42), Capital Efficiency (69), Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (41), Balance Sheet Strength (57). 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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