Pentair plc provides various water solutions in the United States, Western Europe, China, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Flow, Water Solutions, and Pool. The Flow segment designs, manufactures, and sells fluid treatment and pump products and systems, including pressure vessels, gas recovery solutions, membrane bioreactors, wastewater reuse systems and advanced …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 76.6th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Cost Leadership PositionOperating margin at 89.7th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.
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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Pentair plc. ranks #10 of 82
scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score — the top 12%.
The widest moat in the group is Graco Inc. (GGG)
at 86/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near PNR in Specialty Industrial Machinery
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 86
· 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 82
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 79
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 55
· 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 77
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Pentair plc. (PNR) scores 75 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #10 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery, the top 12%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (86/100) and its weakest is Resilience (55/100).
How does Pentair plc. compare with other Specialty Industrial Machinery companies?
Pentair plc. ranks #10 of 82 scored companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery by moat score. The widest moat in Specialty Industrial Machinery is Graco Inc. (GGG) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Nordson Corporation (NDSN) at 76 just above it and IDEX Corporation (IEX) at 74 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 81 companies in Specialty Industrial Machinery. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Pentair plc. 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 Pentair plc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and PNR scores: Pricing Power (75), Cost Advantage (86), Customer Stickiness (82), Capital Efficiency (79), Resilience (55), Scale & Market Position (77). 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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