Newmont Corporation NEM

Competitive advantage analysis · basic-materials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
71/100
Moderate

About Newmont Corporation

Newmont Corporation operates as a gold producer. It also explores for copper, silver, lead, zinc, and other metals. It has operations and/or assets in the United States, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Ghana, Suriname, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and Canada. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Full NEM analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Cost Leadership Position Operating margin at 79.1th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.
  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 68.1th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.

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

Moderate
65

Where NEM ranks in Gold

Newmont Corporation ranks #8 of 49 scored companies in Gold by moat score — the top 16%. The widest moat in the group is Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) at 78/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near NEM in Gold
# Company Moat score Rating
4 Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd OR 75/100 Strong
5 Gold Fields Limited GFI 72/100 Moderate
6 Franco-Nevada Corporation FNV 72/100 Moderate
7 Alamos Gold Inc. AGI 71/100 Moderate
8 Newmont Corporation NEM 71/100 Moderate
9 Royal Gold, Inc. RGLD 70/100 Moderate
10 Kinross Gold Corporation KGC 70/100 Moderate
11 AngloGold Ashanti PLC AU 68/100 Moderate
12 Idaho Strategic Resources, Inc. IDR 64/100 Moderate

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How NEM scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 65 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 86 · 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 77 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 67 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 61 · 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 73 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding NEM's moat

What is Newmont Corporation's moat score?

Newmont Corporation (NEM) scores 71 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #8 of 49 scored companies in Gold, the top 16%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 48 companies in Gold. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (86/100) and its weakest is Resilience (61/100).

How does Newmont Corporation compare with other Gold companies?

Newmont Corporation ranks #8 of 49 scored companies in Gold by moat score. The widest moat in Gold is Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) at 78/100. The companies ranked closest are Alamos Gold Inc. (AGI) at 71 just above it and Royal Gold, Inc. (RGLD) at 70 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 48 companies in Gold. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Newmont Corporation 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 Newmont Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and NEM scores: Pricing Power (65), Cost Advantage (86), Customer Stickiness (77), Capital Efficiency (67), Resilience (61), Scale & Market Position (73). 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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