Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. operates as a professional sports company in the United States. The company owns and operates a portfolio of assets that consists of the New York Knickerbockers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. Its other professional franchises include development league teams, the Hartford Wolf Pack of …
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Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 2.2th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.38), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
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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Madison Square Garden Sports Co ranks #29 of 56
scored companies in Entertainment by moat score — the top 52%.
The widest moat in the group is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
at 85/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near MSGS in Entertainment
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 59
· 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 50
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 21
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 52
· 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 39
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Madison Square Garden Sports Co's moat score?
Madison Square Garden Sports Co (MSGS) scores 43 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #29 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment, the top 52%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 55 companies in Entertainment. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (59/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (21/100).
How does Madison Square Garden Sports Co compare with other Entertainment companies?
Madison Square Garden Sports Co ranks #29 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment by moat score. The widest moat in Entertainment is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are Gaia, Inc. (GAIA) at 45 just above it and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc (AMC) at 42 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 55 companies in Entertainment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Madison Square Garden Sports Co 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 Madison Square Garden Sports Co?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MSGS scores: Pricing Power (42), Cost Advantage (59), Customer Stickiness (50), Capital Efficiency (21), Resilience (52), Scale & Market Position (39). 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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