CVS Health Corporation provides health solutions in the United States. The company operates through Health Care Benefits, Health Services, and Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segments. The Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental and behavioral health plans, medical management capabilities, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans, PDPS and …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.78), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
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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CVS Health Corporation ranks #5 of 11
scored companies in Healthcare Plans by moat score — the top 45%.
The widest moat in the group is Elevance Health, Inc. (ELV)
at 74/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CVS in Healthcare Plans
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 67
· 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 62
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 67
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 34
· 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 50
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
CVS Health Corporation (CVS) scores 59 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #5 of 11 scored companies in Healthcare Plans, the top 45%. 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 Capital Efficiency (67/100) and its weakest is Resilience (34/100).
How does CVS Health Corporation compare with other Healthcare Plans companies?
CVS Health Corporation ranks #5 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 Molina Healthcare Inc (MOH) at 62 just above it and Humana Inc. (HUM) at 52 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 CVS Health 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 CVS Health Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CVS scores: Pricing Power (65), Cost Advantage (67), Customer Stickiness (62), Capital Efficiency (67), Resilience (34), Scale & Market Position (50). 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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