GrowGeneration Corp., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates retail hydroponic and organic gardening stores in the United States. It operates through two segments, Cultivation and Gardening, and Storage Solutions. The company engages in the marketing and distribution of nutrients, additives, growing media, lighting, and environmental control systems, as well as other indoor and outdoor cultivation products. Its products include proprietary …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.86), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
Commodity Pressure / Weak DifferentiationGross margin at 31.4th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 20.4th 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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GrowGeneration Corp. ranks #42 of 52
scored companies in Specialty Retail by moat score — the top 81%.
The widest moat in the group is Winmark Corporation (WINA)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near GRWG in Specialty Retail
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 56
· 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 23
· 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 32
· 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.
GrowGeneration Corp. (GRWG) scores 31 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #42 of 52 scored companies in Specialty Retail, the top 81%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 51 companies in Specialty Retail. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (56/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (17/100).
How does GrowGeneration Corp. compare with other Specialty Retail companies?
GrowGeneration Corp. ranks #42 of 52 scored companies in Specialty Retail by moat score. The widest moat in Specialty Retail is Winmark Corporation (WINA) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporatio (BGFV) at 32 just above it and Nuvve Holding Corp. (NVVE) at 30 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 51 companies in Specialty Retail. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is GrowGeneration 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 GrowGeneration Corp.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GRWG scores: Pricing Power (17), Cost Advantage (56), Customer Stickiness (23), Capital Efficiency (25), Resilience (32), 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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