Liberty Latin America Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides fixed, mobile, and subsea telecommunications services in Puerto Rico, Panama, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Curacao, Chile, and internationally. The company operates through C&W Caribbean, C&W Panama, Liberty Networks, Liberty Puerto Rico, and Liberty Costa Rico segments. It offers communications and entertainment …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.61), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 36.8th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Liberty Latin America Ltd. ranks #35 of 56
scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score — the top 62%.
The widest moat in the group is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM)
at 76/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near LILAK in Telecom Services
How LILAK scores on the Corporate Default defenses
Pricing Power
Score 50
· 20% of the moat score
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 56
· 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 40
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 18
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 36
· 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 54
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Liberty Latin America Ltd. (LILAK) scores 42 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #35 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services, the top 62%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 59 companies in Telecom Services. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (56/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (18/100).
How does Liberty Latin America Ltd. compare with other Telecom Services companies?
Liberty Latin America Ltd. ranks #35 of 56 scored companies in Telecom Services by moat score. The widest moat in Telecom Services is Iridium Communications Inc (IRDM) at 76/100. The companies ranked closest are Telecom Argentina SA (TEO) at 43 just above it and Liberty Latin America Ltd. (LILA) at 40 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 59 companies in Telecom Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Liberty Latin America Ltd. 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 Liberty Latin America Ltd.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and LILAK scores: Pricing Power (50), Cost Advantage (56), Customer Stickiness (40), Capital Efficiency (18), Resilience (36), Scale & Market Position (54). 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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