Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc FBIN

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
57/100
Moderate

About Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. provides home, security, and digital products for residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, and security applications in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Water, Outdoors, and Security. The Water segment manufactures, assembles, and sells faucets, accessories, hardware, kitchen sinks, and waste disposals, under the Moen, ROHL, Riobel, Victoria+Albert, Perrin & Rowe, Aqualisa, … Full FBIN analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.81), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • Scale Supporting Profitability Profitability at scale is strong (score 0.81), demonstrating competitive advantages.

Key risks

  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.28), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

Strong
81

Where FBIN ranks in Building Products & Equipment

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc ranks #15 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score — the top 43%. The widest moat in the group is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near FBIN in Building Products & Equipment
# Company Moat score Rating
11 Johnson Controls International JCI 61/100 Moderate
12 Limbach Holdings, Inc. LMB 60/100 Moderate
13 Janus International Group, Inc. JBI 59/100 Moderate
14 Gibraltar Industries, Inc. ROCK 58/100 Moderate
15 Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc FBIN 57/100 Moderate
16 Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. APT 52/100 Moderate
17 AAON, Inc. AAON 50/100 Developing
18 Apogee Enterprises, Inc. APOG 49/100 Developing
19 Arlo Technologies, Inc. ARLO 48/100 Developing

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How FBIN scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 81 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 40 · 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 52 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 62 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 39 · 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 64 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding FBIN's moat

What is Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc's moat score?

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc (FBIN) scores 57 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #15 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment, the top 43%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (81/100) and its weakest is Resilience (39/100).

How does Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc compare with other Building Products & Equipment companies?

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc ranks #15 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Building Products & Equipment is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Gibraltar Industries, Inc. (ROCK) at 58 just above it and Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. (APT) 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 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Fortune Brands Innovations, 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 Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and FBIN scores: Pricing Power (81), Cost Advantage (40), Customer Stickiness (52), Capital Efficiency (62), Resilience (39), Scale & Market Position (64). 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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