CSW Industrials, Inc. CSWI

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
76/100
Strong

Ranked against 81 peers in Specialty Industrial Machinery

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 44.8% (top 19%) and operating margin at 20.6% (top 10%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Cost Leadership Position Operating margin at 89.7th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC 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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Pricing Power

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Where CSWI ranks in Specialty Industrial Machinery

CSW Industrials, Inc. ranks #8 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score — the top 10%. The widest moat in the group is Graco Inc. (GGG) at 86/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
4 AMETEK, Inc. AME 79/100 Strong
5 Enerpac Tool Group Corp. EPAC 77/100 Strong
6 Watts Water Technologies, Inc. WTS 77/100 Strong
7 Parker-Hannifin Corporation PH 77/100 Strong
8 CSW Industrials, Inc. CSWI 76/100 Strong
9 Nordson Corporation NDSN 76/100 Strong
10 Pentair plc. PNR 75/100 Strong
11 IDEX Corporation IEX 74/100 Moderate
12 A.O. Smith Corporation AOS 74/100 Moderate

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How CSWI scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 75 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 90 · 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 72 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 72 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 76 · 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 82 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding CSWI's moat

What is CSW Industrials, Inc.'s moat score?

CSW Industrials, Inc. (CSWI) scores 76 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #8 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery, the top 10%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (90/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (72/100).

How does CSW Industrials, Inc. compare with other Specialty Industrial Machinery companies?

CSW Industrials, Inc. ranks #8 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Specialty Industrial Machinery is Graco Inc. (GGG) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH) at 76 just above it and Nordson Corporation (NDSN) at 76 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 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is CSW Industrials, 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 CSW Industrials, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CSWI scores: Pricing Power (75), Cost Advantage (90), Customer Stickiness (72), Capital Efficiency (72), Resilience (76), Scale & Market Position (82). 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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