Greenlane Holdings, Inc. GNLN

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-defensive

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
10/100
Weak

About Greenlane Holdings, Inc.

Greenlane Holdings, Inc. engages in the development and distribution of cannabis accessories, vape devices, and lifestyle products in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. The company offers vaporizers, pipes, rolling papers and packaging, grinders, other inhalation devices, storage solutions, and apparel lines. It offers its products under the Groove, Eyce, DaVinci, Higher Standards, Pollen Gear, Marley Natural, Storz … Full GNLN analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.92), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 1.2th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 7.6th 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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Pricing Power

Weak
3

Where GNLN ranks in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services

Greenlane Holdings, Inc. ranks #244 of 265 scored companies in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services by moat score — the top 92%. The widest moat in the group is Brown Forman Inc (BF-A) at 93/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near GNLN in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services
# Company Moat score Rating
240 Visionary Holdings Inc. GV 13/100 Weak
241 Eastside Distilling, Inc. BLNE 12/100 Weak
242 22nd Century Group, Inc XXII 12/100 Weak
243 Skillful Craftsman Education Te EDTK 10/100 Weak
244 Greenlane Holdings, Inc. GNLN 10/100 Weak
245 Steakholder Foods Ltd. STKH 9/100 Weak
246 Genius Group Limited GNS 9/100 Weak
247 Safety Shot, Inc. SHOT 6/100 Weak
248 AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd. AGRI 0/100 Weak

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How GNLN scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 3 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 3 · 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 11 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 9 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 29 · 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 3 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding GNLN's moat

What is Greenlane Holdings, Inc.'s moat score?

Greenlane Holdings, Inc. (GNLN) scores 10 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #244 of 265 scored companies in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services, the top 92%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 264 companies in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services. Its strongest defense is Resilience (29/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (3/100).

How does Greenlane Holdings, Inc. compare with other Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services companies?

Greenlane Holdings, Inc. ranks #244 of 265 scored companies in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services by moat score. The widest moat in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services is Brown Forman Inc (BF-A) at 93/100. The companies ranked closest are Skillful Craftsman Education Te (EDTK) at 10 just above it and Steakholder Foods Ltd. (STKH) at 9 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 264 companies in Consumer Defensive: Staples & Essential Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Greenlane Holdings, 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 Greenlane Holdings, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GNLN scores: Pricing Power (3), Cost Advantage (3), Customer Stickiness (11), Capital Efficiency (9), Resilience (29), Scale & Market Position (3). 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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