The New York Times Company, together with its subsidiaries, creates, collects, and distributes news and information worldwide. The company operates through two segments, The New York Times Group and The Athletic. It offers The New York Times (The Times) through company's mobile application, website, printed newspaper, and associated content, such as podcast. The company offers The Athletic, a sports media …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 93.8th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.91), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
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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Where NYT ranks in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming
New York Times Company (The) ranks #6 of 110
scored companies in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming by moat score — the top 5%.
The widest moat in the group is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
at 85/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near NYT in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 74
· 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 92
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 88
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 80
· 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 65
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is New York Times Company (The)'s moat score?
New York Times Company (The) (NYT) scores 80 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #6 of 110 scored companies in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming, the top 5%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 109 companies in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (92/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (65/100).
How does New York Times Company (The) compare with other Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming companies?
New York Times Company (The) ranks #6 of 110 scored companies in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming by moat score. The widest moat in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are Fox Corporation (FOXA) at 80 just above it and Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) at 79 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 109 companies in Comm Services: Media, Entertainment & Gaming. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is New York Times Company (The) 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 New York Times Company (The)?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and NYT scores: Pricing Power (76), Cost Advantage (74), Customer Stickiness (92), Capital Efficiency (88), Resilience (80), Scale & Market Position (65). 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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