Optical Cable Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells fiber optic and copper data communications cabling and connectivity solutions primarily for the enterprise market in the United States and internationally. The company offers fiber optic and hybrid cables for high bandwidth transmission of data, video, and audio communications; and copper datacom cables, including unshielded and shielded twisted pair constructions. …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.91), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Optical Cable Corporation ranks #29 of 59
scored companies in Communication Equipment by moat score — the top 49%.
The widest moat in the group is Ubiquiti Inc. (UI)
at 82/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near OCC in Communication Equipment
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 50
· 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 62
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 33
· 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 51
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Optical Cable Corporation (OCC) scores 47 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #29 of 59 scored companies in Communication Equipment, the top 49%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 58 companies in Communication Equipment. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (62/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (33/100).
How does Optical Cable Corporation compare with other Communication Equipment companies?
Optical Cable Corporation ranks #29 of 59 scored companies in Communication Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Communication Equipment is Ubiquiti Inc. (UI) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Sonim Technologies, Inc. (SONM) at 47 just above it and NETGEAR, Inc. (NTGR) at 43 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 58 companies in Communication Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Optical Cable 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 Optical Cable Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and OCC scores: Pricing Power (50), Cost Advantage (50), Customer Stickiness (62), Capital Efficiency (33), Resilience (38), Scale & Market Position (51). 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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