Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) RIG

Competitive advantage analysis · energy

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
36/100
Developing

About Transocean Ltd (Switzerland)

Transocean Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells in Switzerland and internationally. The company contracts mobile offshore drilling rigs, related equipment, and work crews to drill oil and gas wells. It also operates a fleet of mobile offshore drilling units, consisting of ultra-deepwater floaters and harsh environment semisubmersibles. It serves integrated energy … Full RIG analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.98), suggesting sticky customer base.
  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.69), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 9.2th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.07), raising refinancing risk.

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

Developing
25

Where RIG ranks in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling)

Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) ranks #72 of 102 scored companies in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling) by moat score — the top 71%. The widest moat in the group is Texas Pacific Land Corporation (TPL) at 84/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near RIG in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling)
# Company Moat score Rating
68 Chord Energy Corporation CHRD 39/100 Developing
69 Helmerich & Payne, Inc. HP 37/100 Developing
70 Seadrill Limited SDRL 37/100 Developing
71 Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. PTEN 36/100 Developing
72 Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) RIG 36/100 Developing
73 Tamboran Resources Corporation TBN 34/100 Developing
74 Obsidian Energy Ltd. OBE 34/100 Developing
75 Gran Tierra Energy Inc. GTE 33/100 Developing
76 Pedevco Corp. PED 33/100 Developing

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How RIG scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 25 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 41 · 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 64 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 26 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 32 · 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 34 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding RIG's moat

What is Transocean Ltd (Switzerland)'s moat score?

Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) (RIG) scores 36 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #72 of 102 scored companies in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling), the top 71%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 101 companies in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling). Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (64/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (25/100).

How does Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) compare with other Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling) companies?

Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) ranks #72 of 102 scored companies in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling) by moat score. The widest moat in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling) is Texas Pacific Land Corporation (TPL) at 84/100. The companies ranked closest are Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN) at 36 just above it and Tamboran Resources Corporation (TBN) at 34 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 101 companies in Energy: Upstream (E&P/Drilling). The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Transocean Ltd (Switzerland) 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 Transocean Ltd (Switzerland)?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and RIG scores: Pricing Power (25), Cost Advantage (41), Customer Stickiness (64), Capital Efficiency (26), Resilience (32), Scale & Market Position (34). 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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