Silicon Laboratories, Inc. SLAB

Competitive advantage analysis · technology

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
38/100
Developing

About Silicon Laboratories, Inc.

Silicon Laboratories Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides mixed-signal analog intensive products in the United States, China, Taiwan, and internationally. Its products are used in various electronic products in a range of applications for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), including connected home and security, industrial automation and control, smart metering and agriculture, smart street lighting, renewable energy, electric vehicle … Full SLAB analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.71), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 31.2th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Below-Peer Operating Efficiency Operating margin at 33.8th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.

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

Developing
34

Where SLAB ranks in Semiconductors

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. ranks #47 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score — the top 71%. The widest moat in the group is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near SLAB in Semiconductors
# Company Moat score Rating
43 nLIGHT, Inc. LASR 38/100 Developing
44 SiTime Corporation SITM 38/100 Developing
45 Nano Labs Ltd NA 38/100 Developing
46 SkyWater Technology, Inc. SKYT 38/100 Developing
47 Silicon Laboratories, Inc. SLAB 38/100 Developing
48 Magnachip Semiconductor Corpora MX 35/100 Developing
49 Synaptics Incorporated SYNA 32/100 Developing
50 GSI Technology, Inc. GSIT 32/100 Developing
51 SemiLEDS Corporation LEDS 32/100 Developing

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How SLAB scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 34 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 36 · 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 38 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 18 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 57 · 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 47 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding SLAB's moat

What is Silicon Laboratories, Inc.'s moat score?

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (SLAB) scores 38 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #47 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors, the top 71%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 65 companies in Semiconductors. Its strongest defense is Resilience (57/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (18/100).

How does Silicon Laboratories, Inc. compare with other Semiconductors companies?

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. ranks #47 of 66 scored companies in Semiconductors by moat score. The widest moat in Semiconductors is NVE Corporation (NVEC) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are SkyWater Technology, Inc. (SKYT) at 38 just above it and Magnachip Semiconductor Corpora (MX) at 35 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 65 companies in Semiconductors. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Silicon Laboratories, 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 Silicon Laboratories, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SLAB scores: Pricing Power (34), Cost Advantage (36), Customer Stickiness (38), Capital Efficiency (18), Resilience (57), Scale & Market Position (47). 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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