MAC Copper Limited MTAL

Competitive advantage analysis · basic-materials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
60/100
Moderate

Ranked against 85 peers in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 34.4% (top 17%) and operating margin at 22.6% (top 11%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Cash Generation Consistent Cash generation is consistent (score 0.94), indicating reliable business model.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.39), raising refinancing risk.

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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Pricing Power

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Where MTAL ranks in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining

MAC Copper Limited ranks #25 of 86 scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining by moat score — the top 29%. The widest moat in the group is Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) at 90/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
21 Friedman Industries Inc. FRD 63/100 Moderate
22 Compass Minerals Intl Inc CMP 63/100 Moderate
23 Taseko Mines, Ltd. TGB 62/100 Moderate
24 Nucor Corporation NUE 61/100 Moderate
25 MAC Copper Limited MTAL 60/100 Moderate
26 Gerdau S.A. GGB 59/100 Moderate
27 TMC the metals company Inc. Warrants TMCWW 59/100 Moderate
28 TMC the metals company Inc. TMC 59/100 Moderate
29 Solitario Resources Corp. XPL 58/100 Moderate

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How MTAL scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 86 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 89 · 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 94 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 28 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 38 · 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 86 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding MTAL's moat

What is MAC Copper Limited's moat score?

MAC Copper Limited (MTAL) scores 60 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #25 of 86 scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining, the top 29%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 85 companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (94/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (28/100).

How does MAC Copper Limited compare with other Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining companies?

MAC Copper Limited ranks #25 of 86 scored companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining by moat score. The widest moat in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining is Southern Copper Corporation (SCCO) at 90/100. The companies ranked closest are Nucor Corporation (NUE) at 61 just above it and Gerdau S.A. (GGB) at 59 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 85 companies in Materials: Industrial Metals & Mining. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is MAC Copper Limited 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 MAC Copper Limited?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MTAL scores: Pricing Power (86), Cost Advantage (89), Customer Stickiness (94), Capital Efficiency (28), Resilience (38), Scale & Market Position (86). 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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