MGP Ingredients, Inc. produces and supplies distilled spirits, branded spirits, and food ingredients worldwide. It operates in three segments: Distillery Solutions, Branded Spirits, and Ingredient Solutions. The Distillery Solutions segment processes corn and other grains, including rye, barley, wheat, barley malt, and milo into food grade alcohol and distillery co-products, such as dried distillers' grain; and offers food-grade alcohol for …
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Key strengths
Cash Generation ConsistentCash generation is consistent (score 0.75), indicating reliable business model.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 20.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
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Where MGPI ranks in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
MGP Ingredients, Inc. ranks #7 of 14
scored companies in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries by moat score — the top 50%.
The widest moat in the group is Brown Forman Inc (BF-A)
at 92/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near MGPI in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 65
· 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 58
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 32
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 45
· 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 40
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
MGP Ingredients, Inc. (MGPI) scores 44 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #7 of 14 scored companies in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries, the top 50%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 13 companies in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (65/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (32/100).
How does MGP Ingredients, Inc. compare with other Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries companies?
MGP Ingredients, Inc. ranks #7 of 14 scored companies in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries by moat score. The widest moat in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries is Brown Forman Inc (BF-A) at 92/100. The companies ranked closest are SNDL Inc. (SNDL) at 49 just above it and Innovation Beverage Group Limit (IBG) at 43 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 13 companies in Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is MGP Ingredients, 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 MGP Ingredients, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MGPI scores: Pricing Power (40), Cost Advantage (65), Customer Stickiness (58), Capital Efficiency (32), Resilience (45), Scale & Market Position (40). 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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