Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides building solutions for applications in new home construction, repair and remodeling, and outdoor structure markets in the United States, Canada, and South America. It operates through Siding and Oriented Strand Board (OSB) segments. The Siding segment consists of a portfolio of engineered wood siding, trim, soffit, and fascia products; and primed products, including …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative LeverageDebt serviceability is strong (score 0.78), with robust interest coverage.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.72), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
Commodity Pressure / Weak DifferentiationGross margin at 23.3th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation ranks #21 of 35
scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score — the top 60%.
The widest moat in the group is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near LPX in Building Products & Equipment
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 72
· 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 34
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 40
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 70
· 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 27
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Louisiana-Pacific Corporation's moat score?
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LPX) scores 45 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #21 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment, the top 60%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (72/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (27/100).
How does Louisiana-Pacific Corporation compare with other Building Products & Equipment companies?
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation ranks #21 of 35 scored companies in Building Products & Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Building Products & Equipment is Armstrong World Industries Inc (AWI) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Carrier Global Corporation (CARR) at 45 just above it and Latham Group, Inc. (SWIM) at 44 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 34 companies in Building Products & Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Louisiana-Pacific Corporation 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 Louisiana-Pacific Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and LPX scores: Pricing Power (27), Cost Advantage (72), Customer Stickiness (34), Capital Efficiency (40), Resilience (70), Scale & Market Position (27). 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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