EchoStar Corporation SATS

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
27/100
Developing

About EchoStar Corporation

EchoStar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides networking technologies and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Pay-TV, Retail Wireless, 5G Network Deployment, Broadband and Satellite Services. The Pay-TV segment offers a direct broadcast and fixed satellite services; designs, develops, and distributes receiver system; and provides digital broadcast operations, including satellite uplinking/downlinking, transmission and, other … Full SATS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.98), suggesting sticky customer base.

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 20.4th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 13.2th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.

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

Weak
10

Where SATS ranks in Communication Equipment

EchoStar Corporation ranks #44 of 59 scored companies in Communication Equipment by moat score — the top 75%. The widest moat in the group is Ubiquiti Inc. (UI) at 82/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near SATS in Communication Equipment
# Company Moat score Rating
40 Cambium Networks Corporation CMBM 30/100 Developing
41 Amplitech Group, Inc. AMPG 29/100 Developing
42 Amplitech Group, Inc. AMPGW 28/100 Developing
43 Ondas Holdings Inc. ONDS 27/100 Developing
44 EchoStar Corporation SATS 27/100 Developing
45 Boxlight Corporation BOXL 26/100 Developing
46 Silynxcom Ltd. SYNX 26/100 Developing
47 UTStarcom Holdings Corp UTSI 25/100 Developing
48 Akoustis Technologies, Inc. AKTSQ 24/100 Weak

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How SATS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 10 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 50 · 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 61 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 14 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 22 · 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 12 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding SATS's moat

What is EchoStar Corporation's moat score?

EchoStar Corporation (SATS) scores 27 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #44 of 59 scored companies in Communication Equipment, the top 75%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 58 companies in Communication Equipment. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (61/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (10/100).

How does EchoStar Corporation compare with other Communication Equipment companies?

EchoStar Corporation ranks #44 of 59 scored companies in Communication Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Communication Equipment is Ubiquiti Inc. (UI) at 82/100. The companies ranked closest are Ondas Holdings Inc. (ONDS) at 27 just above it and Boxlight Corporation (BOXL) at 26 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 58 companies in Communication Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is EchoStar Corporation 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 EchoStar Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SATS scores: Pricing Power (10), Cost Advantage (50), Customer Stickiness (61), Capital Efficiency (14), Resilience (22), Scale & Market Position (12). 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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