Community Health Systems, Inc. owns, leases, and operates general acute care hospitals in the United States. The company offers general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, as well as skilled nursing and home care services. It also provides outpatient services at primary care practices, urgent care centers, free-standing …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 85.1% (top 10%) and operating margin at 11.9% (top 16%) indicate strong pricing power.
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 80.8th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Community Health Systems, Inc. ranks #15 of 58
scored companies in Medical Care Facilities by moat score — the top 26%.
The widest moat in the group is Encompass Health Corporation (EHC)
at 77/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near CYH in Medical Care Facilities
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 55
· 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 59
· 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 44
· 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 75
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Community Health Systems, Inc.'s moat score?
Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH) scores 64 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #15 of 58 scored companies in Medical Care Facilities, the top 26%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 57 companies in Medical Care Facilities. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (76/100) and its weakest is Resilience (44/100).
How does Community Health Systems, Inc. compare with other Medical Care Facilities companies?
Community Health Systems, Inc. ranks #15 of 58 scored companies in Medical Care Facilities by moat score. The widest moat in Medical Care Facilities is Encompass Health Corporation (EHC) at 77/100. The companies ranked closest are Healthcare Services Group, Inc. (HCSG) at 65 just above it and Fresenius Medical Care AG (FMS) at 64 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 57 companies in Medical Care Facilities. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Community Health Systems, 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 Community Health Systems, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CYH scores: Pricing Power (76), Cost Advantage (55), Customer Stickiness (59), Capital Efficiency (72), Resilience (44), Scale & Market Position (75). 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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