NN, Inc. NNBR

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
37/100
Developing

About NN, Inc.

NN, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells high-precision components and assemblies for various end markets in the United States, China, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Poland, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Mobile Solutions and Power Solutions. The Mobile Solutions segment manufactures and sells system critical components for automotive, general industrial, and medical end markets for use in … Full NNBR analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.88), suggesting sticky customer base.
  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.60), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 16.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.18), suggesting limited competitive advantage.

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

Developing
35

Where NNBR ranks in Conglomerates

NN, Inc. ranks #22 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates by moat score — the top 81%. The widest moat in the group is Steel Partners Holdings LP LTD (SPLP) at 79/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near NNBR in Conglomerates
# Company Moat score Rating
18 DMC Global Inc. BOOM 41/100 Developing
19 Tejon Ranch Co TRC 38/100 Developing
20 Air T, Inc. AIRT 37/100 Developing
21 Air T, Inc. - Trust Preferred S AIRTP 37/100 Developing
22 NN, Inc. NNBR 37/100 Developing
23 Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. FBYD 24/100 Weak
24 Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. Wa FBYDW 23/100 Weak
25 Mammoth Energy Services, Inc. TUSK 21/100 Weak
26 Planet Green Holdings Corp. PLAG 3/100 Weak

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How NNBR scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 35 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 53 · 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 65 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 20 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 33 · 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 22 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding NNBR's moat

What is NN, Inc.'s moat score?

NN, Inc. (NNBR) scores 37 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #22 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates, the top 81%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 26 companies in Conglomerates. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (65/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (20/100).

How does NN, Inc. compare with other Conglomerates companies?

NN, Inc. ranks #22 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates by moat score. The widest moat in Conglomerates is Steel Partners Holdings LP LTD (SPLP) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are Air T, Inc. - Trust Preferred S (AIRTP) at 37 just above it and Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. (FBYD) at 24 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 26 companies in Conglomerates. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is NN, 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 NN, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and NNBR scores: Pricing Power (35), Cost Advantage (53), Customer Stickiness (65), Capital Efficiency (20), Resilience (33), Scale & Market Position (22). 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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