Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. operates as a retailer of consumables and fresh products sold through independently operated stores in the United States. It offers perishable department products, including dairy and deli, produce and floral, and fresh meat and seafood. The company also provides non-perishable department products, such as non-perishable grocery, general merchandise, health and beauty care, frozen foods, and beer …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 10.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Volatile Margins Suggest CyclicalityMargin volatility is high (stability score 0.20), suggesting cyclical exposure or competitive pressure.
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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Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. ranks #9 of 12
scored companies in Grocery Stores by moat score — the top 75%.
The widest moat in the group is Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA)
at 81/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near GO in Grocery Stores
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 10
· 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 48
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 25
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 43
· 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 22
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.'s moat score?
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (GO) scores 28 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #9 of 12 scored companies in Grocery Stores, the top 75%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 11 companies in Grocery Stores. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (48/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (10/100).
How does Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. compare with other Grocery Stores companies?
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. ranks #9 of 12 scored companies in Grocery Stores by moat score. The widest moat in Grocery Stores is Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA) at 81/100. The companies ranked closest are Dingdong (Cayman) Limited (DDL) at 38 just above it and Maison Solutions Inc. (MSS) at 22 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 11 companies in Grocery Stores. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. 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 Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GO scores: Pricing Power (21), Cost Advantage (10), Customer Stickiness (48), Capital Efficiency (25), Resilience (43), Scale & Market Position (22). 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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