Elanco Animal Health Incorporated, an animal health company, innovates, develops, manufactures, and markets products for pets and farm animals worldwide. The company offers pet health products, such as parasiticides, vaccines, and therapeutics that protect pets from fleas, ticks, and internal parasites under the Seresto, K-9 Advantage, Advantix, and Advocate trademarks; prescription parasiticide products, an over-the-counter treatments for the prevention and …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.99), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Where ELAN ranks in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Elanco Animal Health Incorporat ranks #26 of 91
scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic by moat score — the top 29%.
The widest moat in the group is Zoetis Inc. (ZTS)
at 85/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near ELAN in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 69
· 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 61
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 49
· 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 49
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Elanco Animal Health Incorporat's moat score?
Elanco Animal Health Incorporat (ELAN) scores 58 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #26 of 91 scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic, the top 29%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 90 companies in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (74/100) and its weakest is Resilience (47/100).
How does Elanco Animal Health Incorporat compare with other Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic companies?
Elanco Animal Health Incorporat ranks #26 of 91 scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic by moat score. The widest moat in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic is Zoetis Inc. (ZTS) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are Takeda Pharmaceutical Company L (TAK) at 59 just above it and Aurora Cannabis Inc. (ACB) at 58 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 90 companies in Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Elanco Animal Health Incorporat 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 Elanco Animal Health Incorporat?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ELAN scores: Pricing Power (74), Cost Advantage (69), Customer Stickiness (61), Capital Efficiency (49), Resilience (47), Scale & Market Position (49). 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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