Beyond Meat, Inc., a plant-based meat company, engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of plant-based meat products under the Beyond brand name in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products that replicates beef, pork, and poultry meats. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club stores, and natural retailer channels, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative LeverageDebt serviceability is strong (score 0.78), with robust interest coverage.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.86), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
Commodity Pressure / Weak DifferentiationGross margin at 7.6th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 15.6th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
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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Beyond Meat, Inc. ranks #58 of 73
scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score — the top 79%.
The widest moat in the group is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V)
at 79/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near BYND in Packaged Foods
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 11
· 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 29
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 8
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 67
· 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 10
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Beyond Meat, Inc. (BYND) scores 22 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #58 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods, the top 79%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 72 companies in Packaged Foods. Its strongest defense is Resilience (67/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (8/100).
How does Beyond Meat, Inc. compare with other Packaged Foods companies?
Beyond Meat, Inc. ranks #58 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score. The widest moat in Packaged Foods is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are Borealis Foods Inc. (BRLS) at 23 just above it and BranchOut Food Inc. (BOF) at 21 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 72 companies in Packaged Foods. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Beyond Meat, 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 Beyond Meat, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and BYND scores: Pricing Power (10), Cost Advantage (11), Customer Stickiness (29), Capital Efficiency (8), Resilience (67), Scale & Market Position (10). 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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