CEVA, Inc. CEVA

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
50/100
Developing

Ranked against 65 peers in Semiconductors

About CEVA, Inc.

CEVA, Inc. provides silicon and software intellectual property (IP) solutions to semiconductor and original equipment manufacturer companies in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers PentaG2, a 5G/5G-A baseband platform; PentaG-RAN, a hardware and software IP for implementing L1 PHY baseband processing in 5G and 5G-A base station and other cellular infrastructure … Full CEVA analysis →

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.75), with robust interest coverage.
  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.85), suggesting sticky customer base.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 34.4th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Below-Peer Operating Efficiency Operating margin at 32.3th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.

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

Developing
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Where CEVA ranks in Semiconductors

CEVA, Inc. ranks #30 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score — the top 45%. The widest moat in the group is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
26 ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. IMOS 53/100 Moderate
27 Lattice Semiconductor Corporati LSCC 52/100 Moderate
28 Power Integrations, Inc. POWI 51/100 Moderate
29 Arteris, Inc. AIP 50/100 Developing
30 CEVA, Inc. CEVA 50/100 Developing
31 Microchip Technology Incorporat MCHP 50/100 Developing
32 ON Semiconductor Corporation ON 49/100 Developing
33 Diodes Incorporated DIOD 49/100 Developing
34 Himax Technologies, Inc. HIMX 45/100 Developing

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How CEVA scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 46 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 31 · 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 52 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 42 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 70 · 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 55 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding CEVA's moat

What is CEVA, Inc.'s moat score?

CEVA, Inc. (CEVA) scores 50 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #30 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors, the top 45%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 65 companies in Semiconductors. Its strongest defense is Resilience (70/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (31/100).

How does CEVA, Inc. compare with other Semiconductors companies?

CEVA, Inc. ranks #30 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score. The widest moat in Semiconductors is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Arteris, Inc. (AIP) at 50 just above it and Microchip Technology Incorporat (MCHP) 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 65 companies in Semiconductors. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is CEVA, 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 CEVA, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CEVA scores: Pricing Power (46), Cost Advantage (31), Customer Stickiness (52), Capital Efficiency (42), Resilience (70), Scale & Market Position (55). 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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