Seneca Foods Corporation provides packaged fruits and vegetables in the United States and internationally. The company offers canned, frozen, and jarred produce; jarred fruit; and snack chips and other food products under the private label, as well as under various national and regional brands that the company owns or licenses, including Seneca, Libby's, Green Giant, Aunt Nellie's, CherryMan, Green Valley, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 85.9th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Cost Leadership PositionOperating margin at 84.8th 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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Seneca Foods Corp. ranks #5 of 73
scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score — the top 7%.
The widest moat in the group is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V)
at 79/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near SENEA in Packaged Foods
How SENEA scores on the Corporate Default defenses
Pricing Power
Score 61
· 20% of the moat score
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 92
· 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 84
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 84
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 75
· 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 64
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Seneca Foods Corp. (SENEA) scores 76 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #5 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods, the top 7%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 72 companies in Packaged Foods. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (92/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (61/100).
How does Seneca Foods Corp. compare with other Packaged Foods companies?
Seneca Foods Corp. ranks #5 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score. The widest moat in Packaged Foods is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are BellRing Brands, Inc. (BRBR) at 77 just above it and Seneca Foods Corp. (SENEB) at 76 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 72 companies in Packaged Foods. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Seneca Foods Corp. 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 Seneca Foods Corp.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SENEA scores: Pricing Power (61), Cost Advantage (92), Customer Stickiness (84), Capital Efficiency (84), Resilience (75), Scale & Market Position (64). 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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