Live Ventures Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the flooring and steel manufacturing, and retail businesses in the United States. It operates in five segments: Retail-Entertainment, Retail-Flooring, Flooring Manufacturing, Steel Manufacturing, and Corporate and Other. The Retail-Entertainment segment provides a selection of entertainment products, including new and pre-owned movies, video games, and music products, as well as ancillary products, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key risks
Commodity Pressure / Weak DifferentiationGross margin at 31.0th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
Where LIVE ranks in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary)
Live Ventures Incorporated ranks #88 of 168
scored companies in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary) by moat score — the top 52%.
The widest moat in the group is Deckers Outdoor Corporation (DECK)
at 84/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near LIVE in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary)
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 61
· 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 57
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 48
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 48
· 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 34
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Live Ventures Incorporated (LIVE) scores 47 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #88 of 168 scored companies in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary), the top 52%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 167 companies in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary). Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (61/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (34/100).
How does Live Ventures Incorporated compare with other Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary) companies?
Live Ventures Incorporated ranks #88 of 168 scored companies in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary) by moat score. The widest moat in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary) is Deckers Outdoor Corporation (DECK) at 84/100. The companies ranked closest are Wayfair Inc. (W) at 48 just above it and Natural Health Trends Corp. - C (NHTC) at 47 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 167 companies in Consumer Cyclical: Retail (Discretionary). The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Live Ventures Incorporated 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 Live Ventures Incorporated?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and LIVE scores: Pricing Power (38), Cost Advantage (61), Customer Stickiness (57), Capital Efficiency (48), Resilience (48), Scale & Market Position (34). 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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