Olaplex Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells haircare products in the United States and internationally. The company offers hair care shampoos and conditioners for use in treatment, maintenance, and protection of hair, as well as oil, moisture mask, and nourishing hair serum. It also provides in-salon services for repairing and shaping curls. In addition, the company offers …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Consistent Cash GenerationCash generation is strong and consistent (score 0.89).
Cash Generation ConsistentCash generation is consistent (score 0.89), indicating reliable business model.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 38.8th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.22), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
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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Olaplex Holdings, Inc. ranks #29 of 52
scored companies in Specialty Retail by moat score — the top 56%.
The widest moat in the group is Winmark Corporation (WINA)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near OLPX in Specialty Retail
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 33
· 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 30
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 68
· 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 47
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Olaplex Holdings, Inc. (OLPX) scores 46 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #29 of 52 scored companies in Specialty Retail, the top 56%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 51 companies in Specialty Retail. Its strongest defense is Resilience (68/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (30/100).
How does Olaplex Holdings, Inc. compare with other Specialty Retail companies?
Olaplex Holdings, Inc. ranks #29 of 52 scored companies in Specialty Retail by moat score. The widest moat in Specialty Retail is Winmark Corporation (WINA) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are The ODP Corporation (ODP) at 50 just above it and Petco Health and Wellness Compa (WOOF) at 42 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 51 companies in Specialty Retail. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Olaplex Holdings, 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 Olaplex Holdings, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and OLPX scores: Pricing Power (37), Cost Advantage (33), Customer Stickiness (62), Capital Efficiency (30), Resilience (68), Scale & Market Position (47). 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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