RXO, Inc. RXO

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
42/100
Developing

About RXO, Inc.

RXO, Inc. engages in truck brokerage business in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia, and Europe. It offers truckload freight brokering services. The company also provides asset-light managed transportation and last mile services, as well as freight forwarding services, including facilitation of ocean and air transportation, customs brokerage, and additional domestic services including middle mile. RXO, Inc. was incorporated in … Full RXO analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.79), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • Operating Leverage in Effect Operating leverage is evident (score 0.79), with margins expanding over time.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 35.7th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Revenue Volatility Signals Weak Stickiness Revenue volatility is high (stability score 0.29), 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

Moderate
59

Where RXO ranks in Trucking

RXO, Inc. ranks #11 of 17 scored companies in Trucking by moat score — the top 65%. The widest moat in the group is Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) at 91/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near RXO in Trucking
# Company Moat score Rating
7 ArcBest Corporation ARCB 51/100 Moderate
8 Knight-Swift Transportation Hol KNX 51/100 Moderate
9 Werner Enterprises, Inc. WERN 49/100 Developing
10 Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. CVLG 43/100 Developing
11 RXO, Inc. RXO 42/100 Developing
12 Universal Logistics Holdings, I ULH 30/100 Developing
13 Heartland Express, Inc. HTLD 23/100 Weak
14 Toppoint Holdings Inc. TOPP 21/100 Weak
15 PAMT CORP PAMT 19/100 Weak

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How RXO scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 59 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 25 · 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 32 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 23 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 35 · 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 71 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding RXO's moat

What is RXO, Inc.'s moat score?

RXO, Inc. (RXO) scores 42 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #11 of 17 scored companies in Trucking, the top 65%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 16 companies in Trucking. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (71/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (23/100).

How does RXO, Inc. compare with other Trucking companies?

RXO, Inc. ranks #11 of 17 scored companies in Trucking by moat score. The widest moat in Trucking is Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) at 91/100. The companies ranked closest are Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. (CVLG) at 43 just above it and Universal Logistics Holdings, I (ULH) at 30 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 16 companies in Trucking. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is RXO, 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 RXO, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and RXO scores: Pricing Power (59), Cost Advantage (25), Customer Stickiness (32), Capital Efficiency (23), Resilience (35), Scale & Market Position (71). 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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