Hubbell Inc HUBB

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
82/100
Strong

About Hubbell Inc

Hubbell Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells electrical and utility solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Electrical Solutions and Utility Solutions. The Utility Solution segment offers critical components that allow the grid to transmit and distribute energy, as well as the communications and controls technologies, including utility transmission and distribution components, such … Full HUBB analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 35.3% (top 22%) and operating margin at 20.7% (top 4%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.85), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.

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Pricing Power

Strong
86

Where HUBB ranks in Electrical Equipment & Parts

Hubbell Inc ranks #2 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts by moat score — the top 4%. The widest moat in the group is Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. (ESP) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near HUBB in Electrical Equipment & Parts
# Company Moat score Rating
1 Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. ESP 83/100 Strong
2 Hubbell Inc HUBB 82/100 Strong
3 Powell Industries, Inc. POWL 81/100 Strong
4 Vertiv Holdings, LLC VRT 81/100 Strong
5 Acuity Brands, Inc. AYI 79/100 Strong
6 Hayward Holdings, Inc. HAYW 78/100 Strong
7 EnerSys ENS 77/100 Strong
8 Preformed Line Products Company PLPC 76/100 Strong
9 nVent Electric plc NVT 76/100 Strong

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How HUBB scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 86 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 88 · 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 93 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 80 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 65 · 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 80 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding HUBB's moat

What is Hubbell Inc's moat score?

Hubbell Inc (HUBB) scores 82 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #2 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts, the top 4%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 54 companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (93/100) and its weakest is Resilience (65/100).

How does Hubbell Inc compare with other Electrical Equipment & Parts companies?

Hubbell Inc ranks #2 of 55 scored companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts by moat score. The widest moat in Electrical Equipment & Parts is Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. (ESP) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. (ESP) at 83 just above it and Powell Industries, Inc. (POWL) at 81 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 54 companies in Electrical Equipment & Parts. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Hubbell 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 Hubbell Inc?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and HUBB scores: Pricing Power (86), Cost Advantage (88), Customer Stickiness (93), Capital Efficiency (80), Resilience (65), Scale & Market Position (80). 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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