Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates hotels and casinos. It owns and operates hotels and casinos under the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada and the Monarch Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk in Black Hawk, Colorado. The company also owns separate parcels of land. In addition, it owns and operates The Toucan Charlie's Buffet …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 55.0% (top 18%) and operating margin at 23.4% (top 6%) indicate strong pricing power.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 1.00), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
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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Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. ranks #1 of 18
scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score — the top 6%.
That makes it the widest moat in the group.
Moat scores for companies ranked near MCRI in Resorts & Casinos
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 79
· 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 69
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 92
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 83
· 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 72
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.'s moat score?
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. (MCRI) scores 83 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #1 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos, the top 6%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (95/100) and its weakest is Customer Stickiness (69/100).
How does Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. compare with other Resorts & Casinos companies?
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. ranks #1 of 18 scored companies in Resorts & Casinos by moat score. That is the widest moat in Resorts & Casinos. The companies ranked closest are Red Rock Resorts, Inc. (RRR) at 75 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 17 companies in Resorts & Casinos. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. 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 Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MCRI scores: Pricing Power (95), Cost Advantage (79), Customer Stickiness (69), Capital Efficiency (92), Resilience (83), Scale & Market Position (72). 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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