PACS Group, Inc. PACS

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
53/100
Moderate

Ranked against 57 peers in Medical Care Facilities

About PACS Group, Inc.

PACS Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities in the United States. It also provides senior care and independent living facilities. The company engages in the acquisition, ownership, and leasing of health care-related properties. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Farmington, Utah. Full PACS analysis →

Key strengths

  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 82.7th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.75), with robust interest coverage.

Key risks

  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.39), suggesting limited competitive advantage.
  • Revenue Volatility Signals Weak Stickiness Revenue volatility is high (stability score 0.20), 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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Pricing Power

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Where PACS ranks in Medical Care Facilities

PACS Group, Inc. ranks #25 of 58 scored companies in Medical Care Facilities by moat score — the top 43%. The widest moat in the group is Encompass Health Corporation (EHC) at 77/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
21 U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. USPH 61/100 Moderate
22 Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc GRDN 58/100 Moderate
23 Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc AVAH 55/100 Moderate
24 The Pennant Group, Inc. PNTG 55/100 Moderate
25 PACS Group, Inc. PACS 53/100 Moderate
26 Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. ACHC 51/100 Moderate
27 COMPASS Pathways Plc - American CMPS 49/100 Developing
28 Select Medical Holdings Corpora SEM 49/100 Developing
29 LifeStance Health Group, Inc. LFST 48/100 Developing

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How PACS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 50 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 69 · 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 37 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 65 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 58 · 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 36 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding PACS's moat

What is PACS Group, Inc.'s moat score?

PACS Group, Inc. (PACS) scores 53 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #25 of 58 scored companies in Medical Care Facilities, the top 43%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 57 companies in Medical Care Facilities. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (69/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (36/100).

How does PACS Group, Inc. compare with other Medical Care Facilities companies?

PACS Group, Inc. ranks #25 of 58 scored companies in Medical Care Facilities by moat score. The widest moat in Medical Care Facilities is Encompass Health Corporation (EHC) at 77/100. The companies ranked closest are The Pennant Group, Inc. (PNTG) at 55 just above it and Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (ACHC) at 50 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 57 companies in Medical Care Facilities. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is PACS Group, 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 PACS Group, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and PACS scores: Pricing Power (50), Cost Advantage (69), Customer Stickiness (37), Capital Efficiency (65), Resilience (58), Scale & Market Position (36). 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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