Identiv, Inc. INVE

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
18/100
Weak

About Identiv, Inc.

Identiv, Inc., develops, manufactures, and supplies specialty IoT products in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company offers specialty radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including near field communication, high frequency, dual frequency, ultra-high frequency, and bluetooth low energy that are attached to or embedded into physical items, such as syringes, pill … Full INVE analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 1.00), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 6.7th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 15.6th 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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Pricing Power

Weak
7

Where INVE ranks in Building Products & Equipment

Identiv, Inc. ranks #31 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score — the top 89%. The widest moat in the group is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near INVE in Building Products & Equipment
# Company Moat score Rating
27 Quanex Building Products Corpor NX 29/100 Developing
28 Antelope Enterprise Holdings Li AEHL 23/100 Weak
29 JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. JELD 22/100 Weak
30 Aspen Aerogels, Inc. ASPN 18/100 Weak
31 Identiv, Inc. INVE 18/100 Weak
32 Caesarstone Ltd. CSTE 16/100 Weak
33 Intelligent Living Application ILAG 8/100 Weak
34 The AZEK Company Inc. AZEK 0/100 Weak
35 GMS Inc. GMS 0/100 Weak

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How INVE scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 6 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 8 · 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 9 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 15 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 60 · 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 8 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding INVE's moat

What is Identiv, Inc.'s moat score?

Identiv, Inc. (INVE) scores 18 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #31 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment, the top 89%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. Its strongest defense is Resilience (60/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (6/100).

How does Identiv, Inc. compare with other Building Products & Equipment companies?

Identiv, Inc. ranks #31 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Building Products & Equipment is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Aspen Aerogels, Inc. (ASPN) at 18 just above it and Caesarstone Ltd. (CSTE) at 16 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 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Identiv, 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 Identiv, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and INVE scores: Pricing Power (6), Cost Advantage (8), Customer Stickiness (9), Capital Efficiency (15), Resilience (60), Scale & Market Position (8). 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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