Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. BWMN

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
46/100
Developing

Ranked against 48 peers in Engineering & Construction

About Bowman Consulting Group Ltd.

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. provides engineering, technical, and technology enhanced consulting services in the United States. The company offers conceptual land planning, environmental consulting and permitting, planning/zoning and entitlements, erosion and sediment design, stormwater management design, construction administration, traffic studies, floodplain studies, utility relocation designs, as well as roadway, bridge, and highway designs; and traffic engineering, traffic signal design and … Full BWMN analysis →

Key risks

  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.29), raising refinancing risk.
  • Liquidity Concerns Liquidity is concerning (score 0.16), raising questions about short-term obligations.

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Pricing Power

Moderate
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Where BWMN ranks in Engineering & Construction

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. ranks #28 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction by moat score — the top 57%. The widest moat in the group is Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (STRL) at 79/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
24 Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. BBCP 59/100 Moderate
25 APi Group Corporation APG 58/100 Moderate
26 MasTec, Inc. MTZ 53/100 Moderate
27 Tutor Perini Corporation TPC 50/100 Moderate
28 Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. BWMN 46/100 Developing
29 Ameresco, Inc. AMRC 45/100 Developing
30 Skyline Builders Group Holding SKBL 42/100 Developing
31 Orion Group Holdings, Inc. ORN 42/100 Developing
32 INNOVATE Corp. VATE 39/100 Developing

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How BWMN scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 65 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 23 · 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 48 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 40 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 32 · 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 64 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding BWMN's moat

What is Bowman Consulting Group Ltd.'s moat score?

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (BWMN) scores 46 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #28 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction, the top 57%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 48 companies in Engineering & Construction. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (65/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (23/100).

How does Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. compare with other Engineering & Construction companies?

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. ranks #28 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction by moat score. The widest moat in Engineering & Construction is Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (STRL) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are Tutor Perini Corporation (TPC) at 50 just above it and Ameresco, Inc. (AMRC) at 45 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 Engineering & Construction. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. 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 Bowman Consulting Group Ltd.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BWMN scores: Pricing Power (65), Cost Advantage (23), Customer Stickiness (48), Capital Efficiency (40), Resilience (32), Scale & Market Position (64). 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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