Avis Budget Group, Inc. CAR

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
27/100
Developing

Ranked against 27 peers in Rental & Leasing Services

About Avis Budget Group, Inc.

Avis Budget Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides car and truck rentals, car sharing, and ancillary products and services to businesses and consumers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Australasia. The company operates the Avis brand, which offers vehicle rental and other mobility solutions to the commercial and leisure segments of the travel industry … Full CAR analysis →

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 12.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.14), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

Developing
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Where CAR ranks in Rental & Leasing Services

Avis Budget Group, Inc. ranks #25 of 28 scored companies in Rental & Leasing Services by moat score — the top 89%. The widest moat in the group is Global Ship Lease Inc New (GSL) at 79/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
20 Custom Truck One Source, Inc. CTOS 39/100 Developing
21 Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. ZCAR 37/100 Developing
22 Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. ZCARW 37/100 Developing
23 Alta Equipment Group Inc. ALTG 36/100 Developing
24 Multi Ways Holdings Limited MWG 34/100 Developing
25 Avis Budget Group, Inc. CAR 27/100 Developing
26 Hertz Global Holdings, Inc HTZ 20/100 Weak
27 Hertz Global Holdings, Inc Warrant HTZWW 20/100 Weak
28 H&E Equipment Services, Inc. HEES 0/100 Weak

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How CAR scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 31 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 35 · 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 36 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 6 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 22 · 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 37 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding CAR's moat

What is Avis Budget Group, Inc.'s moat score?

Avis Budget Group, Inc. (CAR) scores 27 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #25 of 28 scored companies in Rental & Leasing Services, the top 89%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 27 companies in Rental & Leasing Services. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (37/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (6/100).

How does Avis Budget Group, Inc. compare with other Rental & Leasing Services companies?

Avis Budget Group, Inc. ranks #25 of 28 scored companies in Rental & Leasing Services by moat score. The widest moat in Rental & Leasing Services is Global Ship Lease Inc New (GSL) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are Multi Ways Holdings Limited (MWG) at 34 just above it and Hertz Global Holdings, Inc (HTZ) at 20 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 27 companies in Rental & Leasing Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Avis Budget Group, 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 Avis Budget Group, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CAR scores: Pricing Power (31), Cost Advantage (35), Customer Stickiness (36), Capital Efficiency (6), Resilience (22), Scale & Market Position (37). 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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