Kaixin Holdings, an investment holding company, primarily sells domestic and imported automobiles in the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong. It also sells new and used vehicles through a network of dealerships with a focus on automobile brands, such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Land Rover, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and Porsche, as well as through online sales channels, including the Kaixin …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 7.4th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Kaixin Holdings ranks #29 of 31
scored companies in Auto & Truck Dealerships by moat score — the top 94%.
The widest moat in the group is CarGurus, Inc. (CARG)
at 77/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near KXIN in Auto & Truck Dealerships
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 4
· 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 4
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 6
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 4
· 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 32
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Kaixin Holdings (KXIN) scores 11 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #29 of 31 scored companies in Auto & Truck Dealerships, the top 94%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 30 companies in Auto & Truck Dealerships. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (32/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (4/100).
How does Kaixin Holdings compare with other Auto & Truck Dealerships companies?
Kaixin Holdings ranks #29 of 31 scored companies in Auto & Truck Dealerships by moat score. The widest moat in Auto & Truck Dealerships is CarGurus, Inc. (CARG) at 77/100. The companies ranked closest are Jiuzi Holdings, Inc. (JZXN) at 12 just above it and Lazydays Holdings, Inc. (GORV) 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 30 companies in Auto & Truck Dealerships. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Kaixin Holdings 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 Kaixin Holdings?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and KXIN scores: Pricing Power (17), Cost Advantage (4), Customer Stickiness (4), Capital Efficiency (6), Resilience (4), Scale & Market Position (32). 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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