Flexsteel Industries, Inc. FLXS

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-cyclical

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
78/100
Strong

About Flexsteel Industries, Inc.

Flexsteel Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, imports, and markets residential furniture products in the United States. The company offers furniture, such as sofas, loveseats, chairs, reclining rocking chairs, swivel rockers, sofa beds, convertible bedding units, occasional tables, desks, dining tables and chairs, kitchen storage, bedroom furniture, and outdoor furniture. It distributes its products through its e-commerce channel … Full FLXS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 100.0th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.86), with robust interest coverage.

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

Moderate
60

Where FLXS ranks in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances

Flexsteel Industries, Inc. ranks #2 of 34 scored companies in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances by moat score — the top 6%. The widest moat in the group is SharkNinja, Inc. (SN) at 81/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near FLXS in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances
# Company Moat score Rating
1 SharkNinja, Inc. SN 81/100 Strong
2 Flexsteel Industries, Inc. FLXS 78/100 Strong
3 Hamilton Beach Brands Holding C HBB 75/100 Moderate
4 La-Z-Boy Incorporated LZB 74/100 Moderate
5 Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. ETD 72/100 Moderate
6 American Woodmark Corporation AMWD 71/100 Moderate
7 Kewaunee Scientific Corporation KEQU 71/100 Moderate
8 Patrick Industries, Inc. PATK 67/100 Moderate
9 Leggett & Platt, Incorporated LEG 66/100 Moderate

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How FLXS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 60 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 88 · 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 80 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 89 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 81 · 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 72 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding FLXS's moat

What is Flexsteel Industries, Inc.'s moat score?

Flexsteel Industries, Inc. (FLXS) scores 78 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #2 of 34 scored companies in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances, the top 6%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 33 companies in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances. Its strongest defense is Capital Efficiency (89/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (60/100).

How does Flexsteel Industries, Inc. compare with other Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances companies?

Flexsteel Industries, Inc. ranks #2 of 34 scored companies in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances by moat score. The widest moat in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances is SharkNinja, Inc. (SN) at 81/100. The companies ranked closest are SharkNinja, Inc. (SN) at 81 just above it and Hamilton Beach Brands Holding C (HBB) at 75 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 33 companies in Furnishings, Fixtures & Appliances. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Flexsteel Industries, 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 Flexsteel Industries, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and FLXS scores: Pricing Power (60), Cost Advantage (88), Customer Stickiness (80), Capital Efficiency (89), Resilience (81), Scale & Market Position (72). 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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