Dynagas LNG Partners LP 9.00% S DLNG-PA

Competitive advantage analysis · energy

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
75/100
Moderate

Ranked against 280 peers in Energy

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 53.6% (top 18%) and operating margin at 48.1% (top 10%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Cost Leadership Position Operating margin at 89.9th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.

Key risks

  • Liquidity Concerns Liquidity is concerning (score 0.15), raising questions about short-term obligations.

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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How DLNG-PA scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 77 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 93 · 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 90 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 58 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 47 · 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 79 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding DLNG-PA's moat

What is Dynagas LNG Partners LP 9.00% S's moat score?

Dynagas LNG Partners LP 9.00% S (DLNG-PA) scores 75 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 280 companies in Energy. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (93/100) and its weakest is Resilience (47/100).

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 280 companies in Energy. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Dynagas LNG Partners LP 9.00% S 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 Dynagas LNG Partners LP 9.00% S?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and DLNG-PA scores: Pricing Power (77), Cost Advantage (93), Customer Stickiness (90), Capital Efficiency (58), Resilience (47), Scale & Market Position (79). 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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