Clover Health Investments, Corp CLOV

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
20/100
Weak

About Clover Health Investments, Corp

Clover Health Investments, Corp. provides medicare advantage plans in the United States. The company offers preferred provider organization and health maintenance organization plans to medicare-eligible individuals. It operates Clover Assistant, a software platform to execute strategy by enabling physicians to detect, identify, and manage chronic diseases earlier than they otherwise could. The company is based in Wilmington, Delaware. Full CLOV analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Operating Leverage in Effect Operating leverage is evident (score 1.00), with margins expanding over time.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Revenue Volatility Signals Weak Stickiness Revenue volatility is high (stability score 0.11), suggesting weak customer stickiness.

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Pricing Power

Weak
6

Where CLOV ranks in Healthcare Plans

Clover Health Investments, Corp ranks #10 of 11 scored companies in Healthcare Plans by moat score — the top 91%. The widest moat in the group is Elevance Health, Inc. (ELV) at 74/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near CLOV in Healthcare Plans
# Company Moat score Rating
3 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated UNH 63/100 Moderate
4 Molina Healthcare Inc MOH 63/100 Moderate
5 CVS Health Corporation CVS 59/100 Moderate
6 Humana Inc. HUM 52/100 Moderate
7 Alignment Healthcare, Inc. ALHC 43/100 Developing
8 Oscar Health, Inc. OSCR 38/100 Developing
9 Centene Corporation CNC 29/100 Developing
10 Clover Health Investments, Corp CLOV 20/100 Weak
11 NeueHealth, Inc. NEUE 0/100 Weak

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How CLOV scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 6 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 0 · 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 8 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 2 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 20 · 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 81 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding CLOV's moat

What is Clover Health Investments, Corp's moat score?

Clover Health Investments, Corp (CLOV) scores 20 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #10 of 11 scored companies in Healthcare Plans, the top 91%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 10 companies in Healthcare Plans. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (81/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (0/100).

How does Clover Health Investments, Corp compare with other Healthcare Plans companies?

Clover Health Investments, Corp ranks #10 of 11 scored companies in Healthcare Plans by moat score. The widest moat in Healthcare Plans is Elevance Health, Inc. (ELV) at 74/100. The companies ranked closest are Centene Corporation (CNC) at 29 just above it and NeueHealth, Inc. (NEUE) at 0 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 10 companies in Healthcare Plans. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Clover Health Investments, Corp 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 Clover Health Investments, Corp?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CLOV scores: Pricing Power (6), Cost Advantage (0), Customer Stickiness (8), Capital Efficiency (2), Resilience (20), Scale & Market Position (81). 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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