Reservoir Media, Inc. RSVRW

Competitive advantage analysis · communication-services

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
71/100
Moderate

About Reservoir Media, Inc.

Reservoir Media, Inc. operates as a music publishing company. The company operates through two segments, Music Publishing and Recorded Music. The Music Publishing segment acquires interests in music catalogs, as well as signs songwriters. The Recorded Music segment engages in the acquisition of sound recording catalogs; discovery and development of recording artists; and marketing, distribution, sale, and licensing of the … Full RSVRW analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 64.7% (top 17%) and operating margin at 21.8% (top 2%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.89), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.

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Pricing Power

Strong
90

Where RSVRW ranks in Entertainment

Reservoir Media, Inc. ranks #8 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment by moat score — the top 14%. The widest moat in the group is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near RSVRW in Entertainment
# Company Moat score Rating
4 Imax Corporation IMAX 77/100 Strong
5 News Corporation NWSA 76/100 Strong
6 Walt Disney Company (The) DIS 74/100 Moderate
7 News Corporation NWS 73/100 Moderate
8 Reservoir Media, Inc. RSVRW 71/100 Moderate
9 Reservoir Media, Inc.. RSVR 70/100 Moderate
10 Liberty Media Corporation - Ser FWONK 70/100 Moderate
11 Liberty Media Corporation - Ser FWONA 69/100 Moderate
12 Warner Music Group Corp. WMG 64/100 Moderate

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How RSVRW scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 90 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 77 · 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 68 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 54 · 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 80 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding RSVRW's moat

What is Reservoir Media, Inc.'s moat score?

Reservoir Media, Inc. (RSVRW) scores 71 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #8 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment, the top 14%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 55 companies in Entertainment. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (90/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (54/100).

How does Reservoir Media, Inc. compare with other Entertainment companies?

Reservoir Media, Inc. ranks #8 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment by moat score. The widest moat in Entertainment is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are News Corporation (NWS) at 73 just above it and Reservoir Media, Inc.. (RSVR) at 70 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 55 companies in Entertainment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Reservoir Media, 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 Reservoir Media, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and RSVRW scores: Pricing Power (90), Cost Advantage (77), Customer Stickiness (68), Capital Efficiency (54), Resilience (55), Scale & Market Position (80). 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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