Golden Entertainment, Inc. operates a diversified entertainment platform of gaming and hospitality assets. The Company operates eight casinos and 72 gaming taverns in Nevada, featuring approximately 5,600 slots, 80 table games and 6,000 hotel rooms.
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.71), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 25.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Below-Peer Operating EfficiencyOperating margin at 23.5th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.
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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Golden Entertainment, Inc. ranks #14 of 18
scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score — the top 78%.
The widest moat in the group is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near GDEN in Resorts & Casinos
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 24
· 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 53
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 26
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 57
· 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 38
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Golden Entertainment, Inc. (GDEN) scores 39 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #14 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos, the top 78%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. Its strongest defense is Resilience (57/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (24/100).
How does Golden Entertainment, Inc. compare with other Resorts & Casinos companies?
Golden Entertainment, Inc. ranks #14 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score. The widest moat in Resorts & Casinos is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Melco Resorts & Entertainment L (MLCO) at 43 just above it and Century Casinos, Inc. (CNTY) at 34 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 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Golden Entertainment, 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 Golden Entertainment, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GDEN scores: Pricing Power (37), Cost Advantage (24), Customer Stickiness (53), Capital Efficiency (26), Resilience (57), Scale & Market Position (38). 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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