Keysight Technologies Inc. KEYS

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
71/100
Moderate

Ranked against 33 peers in Scientific & Technical Instruments

About Keysight Technologies Inc.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. provides electronic design and test solutions worldwide. The company operates through Communications Solutions Group and Electronic Industrial Solutions Group segments. It offers electronic design and test software, instrumentation, systems, and related services used in the design, simulation, validation, manufacturing, installation, and optimization of communication systems in wireless, data center ecosystem, enterprise, and aerospace, defense, and government end … Full KEYS analysis →

Key strengths

  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 83.3th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.77), suggesting sticky customer base.

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Pricing Power

Moderate
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Where KEYS ranks in Scientific & Technical Instruments

Keysight Technologies Inc. ranks #5 of 34 scored companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments by moat score — the top 15%. The widest moat in the group is Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) at 85/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
1 Garmin Ltd. GRMN 85/100 Strong
2 Ituran Location and Control Ltd ITRN 82/100 Strong
3 Badger Meter, Inc. BMI 82/100 Strong
4 Teledyne Technologies Incorpora TDY 71/100 Moderate
5 Keysight Technologies Inc. KEYS 71/100 Moderate
6 Vontier Corporation VNT 70/100 Moderate
7 Cognex Corporation CGNX 70/100 Moderate
8 Fortive Corporation FTV 69/100 Moderate
9 ESCO Technologies Inc. ESE 68/100 Moderate

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How KEYS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 69 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 69 · 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 90 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 75 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 63 · 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 57 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding KEYS's moat

What is Keysight Technologies Inc.'s moat score?

Keysight Technologies Inc. (KEYS) scores 70 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #5 of 34 scored companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments, the top 15%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 33 companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (90/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (57/100).

How does Keysight Technologies Inc. compare with other Scientific & Technical Instruments companies?

Keysight Technologies Inc. ranks #5 of 34 scored companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments by moat score. The widest moat in Scientific & Technical Instruments is Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) at 84/100. The companies ranked closest are Teledyne Technologies Incorpora (TDY) at 71 just above it and Vontier Corporation (VNT) at 70 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 33 companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Keysight Technologies 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 Keysight Technologies Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and KEYS scores: Pricing Power (69), Cost Advantage (69), Customer Stickiness (90), Capital Efficiency (75), Resilience (63), Scale & Market Position (57). 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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