Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) GS-PC

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
37/100
Developing

Ranked against 1240 peers in Financial Services

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 36.4th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Below-Peer Operating Efficiency Operating margin at 0th 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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How GS-PC scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Not measurable · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 52 · 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 28 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 48 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 10 · 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

Not measurable · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding GS-PC's moat

What is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)'s moat score?

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (GS-PC) scores 37 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 1240 companies in Financial Services. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (52/100) and its weakest is Resilience (10/100).

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 1240 companies in Financial Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (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 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GS-PC scores: Pricing Power (not measurable), Cost Advantage (52), Customer Stickiness (28), Capital Efficiency (48), Resilience (10), Scale & Market Position (not measurable). 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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