CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant CLSKW

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Asset Management Specialized
Overall moat score
55/100
Moderate

About CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant

CleanSpark, Inc. operates as a bitcoin mining company in the Americas. The company owns, leases, and operates data centers and power assets. Its infrastructure supports Bitcoin, a digital commodity. The company was formerly known as Stratean Inc. and changed its name to CleanSpark, Inc. in November 2016. CleanSpark, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. Full CLSKW analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Lean Compensation Structure Compensation discipline is strong (cost efficiency score 0.88).
  • Premium Fee Margins Fee margin quality is strong (score 0.88).

Key risks

  • AUM Retention Risk Revenue stickiness is low (stability score 0.26).
  • Weak Cash Conversion Cash conversion is weak (score 0.22).

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Fee Revenue Quality

Moderate
70

Where CLSKW ranks in Capital Markets

CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant ranks #28 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score — the top 42%. The widest moat in the group is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near CLSKW in Capital Markets
# Company Moat score Rating
24 Nomura Holdings Inc NMR 59/100 Moderate
25 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) GS 59/100 Moderate
26 StoneX Group Inc. SNEX 57/100 Moderate
27 Siebert Financial Corp. SIEB 57/100 Moderate
28 CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant CLSKW 55/100 Moderate
29 Heritage Global Inc. HGBL 55/100 Moderate
30 Freedom Holding Corp. FRHC 52/100 Moderate
31 TOP Financial Group Limited TOP 52/100 Moderate
32 Abits Group Inc ABTS 51/100 Moderate

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How CLSKW scores on the Asset Management Specialized defenses

Fee Revenue Quality

Score 70 · 20% of the moat score

Fee revenue quality is the ability to charge above the industry's falling average and keep charging it.

Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness

Score 24 · 18% of the moat score

Assets under management leave far more easily than they arrive, and the fee leaves with them.

Compensation Discipline

Score 86 · 18% of the moat score

Compensation is the largest expense in asset management and the one that decides whether a good year ever reaches shareholders.

Capital Efficiency

Score 64 · 20% of the moat score

Asset managers are asset-light: with little capital employed, a healthy business should earn a very high return on equity, and a merely average one is a real warning.

Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion

Score 33 · 14% of the moat score

Reported profits here can be flattered by performance fees, seed-capital gains and consolidated fund accounting, none of which recur reliably.

Balance Sheet Strength

Score 40 · 10% of the moat score

Because the business needs so little capital, an asset manager carrying meaningful debt has usually borrowed to buy another manager or to fund distributions.

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Understanding CLSKW's moat

What is CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant's moat score?

CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant (CLSKW) scores 55 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #28 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets, the top 42%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 74 companies in Capital Markets. Its strongest defense is Compensation Discipline (86/100) and its weakest is Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (24/100).

How does CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant compare with other Capital Markets companies?

CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant ranks #28 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score. The widest moat in Capital Markets is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Siebert Financial Corp. (SIEB) at 57 just above it and Heritage Global Inc. (HGBL) at 55 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Asset Management Specialized 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 74 companies in Capital Markets. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant scored with the Asset Management Specialized template?

An asset manager owns almost nothing. It charges a fee on someone else's money, pays much of that fee out in compensation, and keeps the remainder — so its economics turn on the fee rate it can defend, whether client money stays, and how much revenue survives the bonus pool. The Asset Management template scores those questions rather than the balance sheet, which in this industry is largely beside the point.

Which competitive defenses are measured for CleanSpark, Inc. Warrant?

The Asset Management Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and CLSKW scores: Fee Revenue Quality (70), Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (24), Compensation Discipline (86), Capital Efficiency (64), Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (33), Balance Sheet Strength (40). 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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