MDB Capital Holdings, LLC MDBH

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Asset Management Specialized
Overall moat score
25/100
Developing

About MDB Capital Holdings, LLC

MDB Capital Holdings, LLC, through its subsidiaries, primarily operates as a broker-dealer. The company operates in two segments, Broker Dealer & Intellectual Property Service, and Technology Development. The Broker Dealer & Intellectual Property Service segment operates as a full-service broker dealer firm that focuses on conducting private and public securities offerings, as well as providing research services for investment banking … Full MDBH analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Conservative Leverage Leverage is conservative vs peers (score 0.90).
  • Consistent Revenue Growth Revenue growth trajectory is positive (score 0.96).

Key risks

  • Fee Margin Pressure Fee margin quality is below peers (score 0.08).
  • High Compensation Costs Compensation costs relative to peers are high (score 0.08).

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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Fee Revenue Quality

Weak
10

Where MDBH ranks in Capital Markets

MDB Capital Holdings, LLC ranks #49 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score — the top 73%. The widest moat in the group is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near MDBH in Capital Markets
# Company Moat score Rating
45 SOS Limited SOS 32/100 Developing
46 ATIF Holdings Limited ZBAI 31/100 Developing
47 Bit Digital, Inc. BTBT 28/100 Developing
48 BTCS Inc. BTCS 28/100 Developing
49 MDB Capital Holdings, LLC MDBH 25/100 Developing
50 Top KingWin Ltd WAI 25/100 Developing
51 Soluna Holdings, Inc. - 9.0% Se SLNHP 24/100 Weak
52 Sphere 3D Corp. ANY 23/100 Weak
53 Plutus Financial Group Limited PLUT 21/100 Weak

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How MDBH scores on the Asset Management Specialized defenses

Fee Revenue Quality

Score 10 · 20% of the moat score

Fee revenue quality is the ability to charge above the industry's falling average and keep charging it.

Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness

Score 19 · 18% of the moat score

Assets under management leave far more easily than they arrive, and the fee leaves with them.

Compensation Discipline

Score 8 · 18% of the moat score

Compensation is the largest expense in asset management and the one that decides whether a good year ever reaches shareholders.

Capital Efficiency

Score 27 · 20% of the moat score

Asset managers are asset-light: with little capital employed, a healthy business should earn a very high return on equity, and a merely average one is a real warning.

Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion

Score 28 · 14% of the moat score

Reported profits here can be flattered by performance fees, seed-capital gains and consolidated fund accounting, none of which recur reliably.

Balance Sheet Strength

Score 93 · 10% of the moat score

Because the business needs so little capital, an asset manager carrying meaningful debt has usually borrowed to buy another manager or to fund distributions.

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Understanding MDBH's moat

What is MDB Capital Holdings, LLC's moat score?

MDB Capital Holdings, LLC (MDBH) scores 25 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #49 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets, the top 73%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 74 companies in Capital Markets. Its strongest defense is Balance Sheet Strength (93/100) and its weakest is Compensation Discipline (8/100).

How does MDB Capital Holdings, LLC compare with other Capital Markets companies?

MDB Capital Holdings, LLC ranks #49 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score. The widest moat in Capital Markets is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are BTCS Inc. (BTCS) at 28 just above it and Top KingWin Ltd (WAI) at 25 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Asset Management Specialized 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 74 companies in Capital Markets. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is MDB Capital Holdings, LLC scored with the Asset Management Specialized template?

An asset manager owns almost nothing. It charges a fee on someone else's money, pays much of that fee out in compensation, and keeps the remainder — so its economics turn on the fee rate it can defend, whether client money stays, and how much revenue survives the bonus pool. The Asset Management template scores those questions rather than the balance sheet, which in this industry is largely beside the point.

Which competitive defenses are measured for MDB Capital Holdings, LLC?

The Asset Management Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and MDBH scores: Fee Revenue Quality (10), Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (19), Compensation Discipline (8), Capital Efficiency (27), Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (28), Balance Sheet Strength (93). 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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