Columbus McKinnon Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets motion solutions for moving, lifting, positioning, and securing materials worldwide. It offers manual and electric chain hoists, electric wire rope hoists, hand-operated hoists, winches, lever tools, and air-powered hoists, as well as explosion-protected and custom engineered hoists; high-precision conveying systems solutions which includes low profile, flexible chain, large scale, sanitary, and vertical elevation …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 17.4th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Where CMCO ranks in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Columbus McKinnon Corporation ranks #20 of 29
scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score — the top 69%.
The widest moat in the group is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT)
at 80/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CMCO in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 24
· 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 31
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 24
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 25
· 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 34
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Columbus McKinnon Corporation's moat score?
Columbus McKinnon Corporation (CMCO) scores 27 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #20 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery, the top 69%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 28 companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (34/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (24/100).
How does Columbus McKinnon Corporation compare with other Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery companies?
Columbus McKinnon Corporation ranks #20 of 29 scored companies in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery is Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are Xos, Inc. (XOS) at 28 just above it and urban-gro, Inc. (UGRO) at 26 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 & Heavy Construction Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Columbus McKinnon Corporation 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 Columbus McKinnon Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CMCO scores: Pricing Power (26), Cost Advantage (24), Customer Stickiness (31), Capital Efficiency (24), Resilience (25), Scale & Market Position (34). 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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