Genesco Inc. operates as a retailer and wholesaler of footwear, apparel, and accessories. The company operates through four segments: Journeys Group, Schuh Group, Johnston & Murphy Group, and Genesco Brands Group. The Journeys Group segment offers footwear and accessories for young men, women, and children through the Journeys, Journeys Kidz, and Little Burgundy retail chains, as well as through e-commerce …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.70), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 37.9th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
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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Genesco Inc. ranks #16 of 34
scored companies in Apparel Retail by moat score — the top 47%.
The widest moat in the group is lululemon athletica inc. (LULU)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near GCO in Apparel Retail
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 37
· 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 64
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 42
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 64
· 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 57
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Genesco Inc. (GCO) scores 52 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #16 of 34 scored companies in Apparel Retail, the top 47%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 33 companies in Apparel Retail. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (64/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (37/100).
How does Genesco Inc. compare with other Apparel Retail companies?
Genesco Inc. ranks #16 of 34 scored companies in Apparel Retail by moat score. The widest moat in Apparel Retail is lululemon athletica inc. (LULU) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Guess?, Inc. (GES) at 57 just above it and Victorias Secret & Co. (VSCO) 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 33 companies in Apparel Retail. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Genesco 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 Genesco Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GCO scores: Pricing Power (48), Cost Advantage (37), Customer Stickiness (64), Capital Efficiency (42), Resilience (64), Scale & Market Position (57). 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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