HF Foods Group Inc. HFFG

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-defensive

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
23/100
Weak

Ranked against 13 peers in Food Distribution

About HF Foods Group Inc.

HF Foods Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a marketer and distributor of specialty food products, seafood, fresh produce, frozen and dry food, and non-food products to Asian restaurants and other foodservice customers in the United States. The company offers lobster, shrimp, crab, and scallops; fish products, such as tuna and Alaskan salmon; specialty noodles, rice specialty sauces/seasonings, … Full HFFG analysis →

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 8.3th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.33), suggesting limited competitive advantage.

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

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Where HFFG ranks in Food Distribution

HF Foods Group Inc. ranks #13 of 14 scored companies in Food Distribution by moat score — the top 93%. The widest moat in the group is G. Willi-Food International, L (WILC) at 75/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
6 The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. CHEF 57/100 Moderate
7 Mission Produce, Inc. AVO 55/100 Moderate
8 The Andersons, Inc. ANDE 53/100 Moderate
9 United Natural Foods, Inc. UNFI 45/100 Developing
10 Mannatech, Incorporated MTEX 37/100 Developing
11 AMCON Distributing Company DIT 34/100 Developing
12 Top Wealth Group Holding Limite TWG 32/100 Developing
13 HF Foods Group Inc. HFFG 23/100 Weak
14 SpartanNash Company SPTN 0/100 Weak

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How HFFG scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 27 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 27 · 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 30 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 16 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 24 · 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 18 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding HFFG's moat

What is HF Foods Group Inc.'s moat score?

HF Foods Group Inc. (HFFG) scores 23 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #13 of 14 scored companies in Food Distribution, the top 93%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 13 companies in Food Distribution. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (30/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (16/100).

How does HF Foods Group Inc. compare with other Food Distribution companies?

HF Foods Group Inc. ranks #13 of 14 scored companies in Food Distribution by moat score. The widest moat in Food Distribution is G. Willi-Food International, L (WILC) at 75/100. The companies ranked closest are Top Wealth Group Holding Limite (TWG) at 32 just above it and SpartanNash Company (SPTN) at 0 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 13 companies in Food Distribution. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is HF Foods Group 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 HF Foods Group Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and HFFG scores: Pricing Power (27), Cost Advantage (27), Customer Stickiness (30), Capital Efficiency (16), Resilience (24), Scale & Market Position (18). 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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