CHS Inc. operates as a diversified global agribusiness cooperative, providing products and services in energy, agronomy, grain marketing, animal nutrition, food ingredients, and risk management. The company supplies energy products, including refined fuels, propane, lubricants, and renewable fuels such as ethanol, and operates petroleum refineries and pipelines. It provides crop nutrients, seed, crop protection products, seed treatments, proprietary and distributed …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.89), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.67), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 0th 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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CHS Inc ranks #13 of 29
scored companies in Farm Products by moat score — the top 45%.
The widest moat in the group is Smithfield Foods, Inc. (SFD)
at 80/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CHSCL in Farm Products
How CHSCL scores on the Corporate Default defenses
Pricing Power
Score 54
· 20% of the moat score
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 63
· 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 57
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 59
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 65
· 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.
CHS Inc (CHSCL) scores 58 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #13 of 29 scored companies in Farm Products, the top 45%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 28 companies in Farm Products. Its strongest defense is Resilience (65/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (54/100).
How does CHS Inc compare with other Farm Products companies?
CHS Inc ranks #13 of 29 scored companies in Farm Products by moat score. The widest moat in Farm Products is Smithfield Foods, Inc. (SFD) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are CHS Inc - 8% Cumulative Redeem (CHSCP) at 61 just above it and Bunge Limited (BG) at 58 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 28 companies in Farm Products. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is CHS 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 CHS Inc?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CHSCL scores: Pricing Power (54), Cost Advantage (63), Customer Stickiness (57), Capital Efficiency (59), Resilience (65), 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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