Gorman-Rupp Company (The) GRC

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
60/100
Moderate

Ranked against 81 peers in Specialty Industrial Machinery

About Gorman-Rupp Company (The)

The Gorman-Rupp Company designs, manufactures, and sells pumps and pump systems in the United States and internationally. The company offers self-priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, vertical turbine line shaft, submersible, high-pressure booster, rotary gear, rotary vein, diaphragm, bellows, and oscillating pumps. Its products are used in water, wastewater, construction, dewatering, industrial, petroleum, original equipment, … Full GRC analysis →

Key strengths

  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 66.2th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
  • Operating Expense Control OpEx growth is controlled (score 0.60), demonstrating operating leverage.

Key risks

  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.36), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

Moderate
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Where GRC ranks in Specialty Industrial Machinery

Gorman-Rupp Company (The) ranks #31 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score — the top 38%. The widest moat in the group is Graco Inc. (GGG) at 86/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
27 Franklin Electric Co., Inc. FELE 63/100 Moderate
28 Xylem Inc. XYL 63/100 Moderate
29 Gates Industrial Corporation pl GTES 61/100 Moderate
30 The Middleby Corporation MIDD 60/100 Moderate
31 Gorman-Rupp Company (The) GRC 60/100 Moderate
32 Power Solutions International, PSIX 60/100 Moderate
33 ZJK Industrial Co., Ltd. ZJK 60/100 Moderate
34 Thermon Group Holdings, Inc. THR 59/100 Moderate
35 Cummins Inc. CMI 58/100 Moderate

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How GRC scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 55 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 74 · 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 61 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 66 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 50 · 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 59 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding GRC's moat

What is Gorman-Rupp Company (The)'s moat score?

Gorman-Rupp Company (The) (GRC) scores 60 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #31 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery, the top 38%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (74/100) and its weakest is Resilience (50/100).

How does Gorman-Rupp Company (The) compare with other Specialty Industrial Machinery companies?

Gorman-Rupp Company (The) ranks #31 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Specialty Industrial Machinery is Graco Inc. (GGG) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are The Middleby Corporation (MIDD) at 60 just above it and Power Solutions International, (PSIX) at 60 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 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Gorman-Rupp Company (The) 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 Gorman-Rupp Company (The)?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GRC scores: Pricing Power (55), Cost Advantage (74), Customer Stickiness (61), Capital Efficiency (66), Resilience (50), Scale & Market Position (59). 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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