National Presto Industries, Inc. provides housewares and small appliance, defense, and safety products in North America. The company's Housewares/Small Appliance segment designs, markets, and distributes housewares and small electrical appliances, including pressure cookers and canners; kitchen electrics, and comfort appliances; heat control line of skillets, griddles, woks, and multi-purpose cookers; slow cookers; deep fryers; air fryers; waffle makers; pizza ovens; …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 66.7th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.78), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Key risks
Weak or Negative Cash FlowCash generation is weak (score 0.39), limiting financial flexibility.
National Presto Industries, Inc ranks #33 of 80
scored companies in Aerospace & Defense by moat score — the top 41%.
The widest moat in the group is Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM)
at 80/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near NPK in Aerospace & Defense
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 72
· 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 44
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 69
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 63
· 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 44
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is National Presto Industries, Inc's moat score?
National Presto Industries, Inc (NPK) scores 58 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #33 of 80 scored companies in Aerospace & Defense, the top 41%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 79 companies in Aerospace & Defense. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (72/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (44/100).
How does National Presto Industries, Inc compare with other Aerospace & Defense companies?
National Presto Industries, Inc ranks #33 of 80 scored companies in Aerospace & Defense by moat score. The widest moat in Aerospace & Defense is Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) at 80/100. The companies ranked closest are Karman Holdings Inc. (KRMN) at 59 just above it and Huntington Ingalls Industries, (HII) at 57 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 79 companies in Aerospace & Defense. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is National Presto Industries, 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 National Presto Industries, Inc?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and NPK scores: Pricing Power (56), Cost Advantage (72), Customer Stickiness (44), Capital Efficiency (69), Resilience (63), Scale & Market Position (44). 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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