Brinks Company (The) BCO

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
65/100
Moderate

About Brinks Company (The)

The Brink's Company provides cash and valuables management, digital retail solutions, and automated teller machines (ATM) managed services in North America, Latin America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers armored vehicle transportation of valuables; ATM services, such as cash replenishment, treasury management, cash forecasting, cash optimization, ATM remote monitoring, service call dispatching, transaction processing, first and second line maintenance, parts … Full BCO analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.92), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 76.0th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.

Key risks

  • Liquidity Concerns Liquidity is concerning (score 0.19), raising questions about short-term obligations.

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

Moderate
68

Where BCO ranks in Security & Protection Services

Brinks Company (The) ranks #7 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services by moat score — the top 26%. The widest moat in the group is NAPCO Security Technologies, In (NSSC) at 84/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near BCO in Security & Protection Services
# Company Moat score Rating
3 MSA Safety Incorporated MSA 76/100 Strong
4 Brady Corporation BRC 74/100 Moderate
5 ADT Inc. ADT 73/100 Moderate
6 CompX International Inc. CIX 73/100 Moderate
7 Brinks Company (The) BCO 65/100 Moderate
8 Senstar Technologies Corporatio SNT 64/100 Moderate
9 CoreCivic, Inc. CXW 60/100 Moderate
10 Geo Group Inc (The) REIT GEO 59/100 Moderate
11 Mistras Group Inc MG 58/100 Moderate

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How BCO scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 68 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 80 · 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 83 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 72 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 44 · 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 38 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding BCO's moat

What is Brinks Company (The)'s moat score?

Brinks Company (The) (BCO) scores 64 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #7 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services, the top 26%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 26 companies in Security & Protection Services. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (83/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (38/100).

How does Brinks Company (The) compare with other Security & Protection Services companies?

Brinks Company (The) ranks #7 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services by moat score. The widest moat in Security & Protection Services is NAPCO Security Technologies, In (NSSC) at 84/100. The companies ranked closest are CompX International Inc. (CIX) at 72 just above it and Senstar Technologies Corporatio (SNT) 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 26 companies in Security & Protection Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Brinks Company (The) 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 Brinks Company (The)?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BCO scores: Pricing Power (68), Cost Advantage (80), Customer Stickiness (83), Capital Efficiency (72), Resilience (44), Scale & Market Position (38). 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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