Benchmark Electronics, Inc. BHE

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
52/100
Moderate

About Benchmark Electronics, Inc.

Benchmark Electronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers product design, engineering services, technology solutions, and manufacturing services in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It provides design and engineering services and technology solutions, including new product design, prototype, testing, and related engineering services; and custom test and automation equipment design services. The company also offers electronics manufacturing and testing services, such … Full BHE analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.92), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.

Key risks

  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.33), suggesting limited competitive advantage.
  • Inconsistent Cash Generation Cash generation is inconsistent (score 0.48), indicating operational challenges.

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Pricing Power

Moderate
52

Where BHE ranks in Electronic Components

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. ranks #24 of 52 scored companies in Electronic Components by moat score — the top 46%. The widest moat in the group is Universal Display Corporation (OLED) at 82/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near BHE in Electronic Components
# Company Moat score Rating
20 Neonode Inc. NEON 59/100 Moderate
21 Jabil Inc. JBL 59/100 Moderate
22 LSI Industries Inc. LYTS 54/100 Moderate
23 Deswell Industries, Inc. DSWL 53/100 Moderate
24 Benchmark Electronics, Inc. BHE 52/100 Moderate
25 Eltek Ltd. ELTK 50/100 Developing
26 Littelfuse, Inc. LFUS 49/100 Developing
27 Richardson Electronics, Ltd. RELL 45/100 Developing
28 Rogers Corporation ROG 44/100 Developing

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How BHE scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 52 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 65 · 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 55 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 48 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 50 · 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 42 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding BHE's moat

What is Benchmark Electronics, Inc.'s moat score?

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (BHE) scores 52 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #24 of 52 scored companies in Electronic Components, the top 46%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 51 companies in Electronic Components. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (65/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (42/100).

How does Benchmark Electronics, Inc. compare with other Electronic Components companies?

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. ranks #24 of 52 scored companies in Electronic Components by moat score. The widest moat in Electronic Components is Universal Display Corporation (OLED) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Deswell Industries, Inc. (DSWL) at 53 just above it and Eltek Ltd. (ELTK) at 50 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 51 companies in Electronic Components. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Benchmark Electronics, Inc. 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 Benchmark Electronics, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BHE scores: Pricing Power (52), Cost Advantage (65), Customer Stickiness (55), Capital Efficiency (48), Resilience (50), Scale & Market Position (42). 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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