Citi Trends, Inc. operates as a value retailer of fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods. The company offers apparel, such as fashion sportswear and footwear for men and ladies, as well as apparel for kids, including newborns, infants, toddlers, boys, and girls; sleepwear, lingerie, and scrubs for ladies; and kids' uniforms and accessories. It also provides accessories and beauty products …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative LeverageDebt serviceability is strong (score 0.79), with robust interest coverage.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 37.9th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Below-Peer Operating EfficiencyOperating margin at 39.4th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.
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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Citi Trends, Inc. ranks #24 of 34
scored companies in Apparel Retail by moat score — the top 71%.
The widest moat in the group is lululemon athletica inc. (LULU)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CTRN in Apparel Retail
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 43
· 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 41
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 28
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 53
· 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 31
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN) scores 36 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #24 of 34 scored companies in Apparel Retail, the top 71%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 33 companies in Apparel Retail. Its strongest defense is Resilience (53/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (24/100).
How does Citi Trends, Inc. compare with other Apparel Retail companies?
Citi Trends, Inc. ranks #24 of 34 scored companies in Apparel Retail by moat score. The widest moat in Apparel Retail is lululemon athletica inc. (LULU) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Caleres, Inc. (CAL) at 38 just above it and Zumiez Inc. (ZUMZ) at 35 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 33 companies in Apparel Retail. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Citi Trends, 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 Citi Trends, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CTRN scores: Pricing Power (24), Cost Advantage (43), Customer Stickiness (41), Capital Efficiency (28), Resilience (53), Scale & Market Position (31). 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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