The LGL Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of time and frequency instruments in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Electronic Instruments and Merchant Investment. The company offers frequency and time reference standards; radio frequency (RF), digital, and optical time code distribution amplifiers; network time protocol (NTP) servers; and …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Scale Supporting ProfitabilityProfitability at scale is strong (score 0.71), demonstrating competitive advantages.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 1.00), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 36.7th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.10), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
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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Where LGL ranks in Scientific & Technical Instruments
LGL Group, Inc. (The) ranks #18 of 34
scored companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments by moat score — the top 53%.
The widest moat in the group is Garmin Ltd. (GRMN)
at 85/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near LGL in Scientific & Technical Instruments
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 36
· 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 25
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 29
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 71
· 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 77
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
LGL Group, Inc. (The) (LGL) scores 48 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #18 of 34 scored companies in Scientific & Technical Instruments, the top 53%. 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 Scale & Market Position (77/100) and its weakest is Customer Stickiness (25/100).
How does LGL Group, Inc. (The) compare with other Scientific & Technical Instruments companies?
LGL Group, Inc. (The) ranks #18 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 Mesa Laboratories, Inc. (MLAB) at 51 just above it and Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) at 48 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 LGL Group, Inc. (The) 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 LGL Group, Inc. (The)?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and LGL scores: Pricing Power (53), Cost Advantage (36), Customer Stickiness (25), Capital Efficiency (29), Resilience (71), Scale & Market Position (77). 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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