BRC Group Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in North America, Australia, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. The company operates through six segments: Capital Markets, Wealth Management, Financial Consulting, Communications, Consumer, and E-Commerce. The Capital Markets segments offers investment banking, equity research, institutional investors, financial sponsors, fund and asset management, direct lending, and investment services; public and private …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.78), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Cost Leadership PositionOperating margin at 87.5th 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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Where RILY ranks in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies
B. Riley Financial, Inc. ranks #32 of 322
scored companies in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies by moat score — the top 10%.
The widest moat in the group is AI TRANSPORTATION ACQUISITION C (AITR)
at 97/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near RILY in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 85
· 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 67
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 50
· 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 55
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
B. Riley Financial, Inc. (RILY) scores 65 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #32 of 322 scored companies in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies, the top 10%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 322 companies in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (85/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (50/100).
How does B. Riley Financial, Inc. compare with other Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies companies?
B. Riley Financial, Inc. ranks #32 of 322 scored companies in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies by moat score. The widest moat in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies is AI TRANSPORTATION ACQUISITION C (AITR) at 97/100. The companies ranked closest are Voya Financial, Inc. (VOYA) at 65 just above it and byNordic Acquisition Corporatio (BYNOW) at 64 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 322 companies in Financials: Shell/SPACs & Holding Companies. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is B. Riley Financial, 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 B. Riley Financial, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and RILY scores: Pricing Power (72), Cost Advantage (85), Customer Stickiness (67), Capital Efficiency (50), Resilience (68), Scale & Market Position (55). 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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