SOS Limited SOS

Competitive advantage analysis · financial-services

Asset Management Specialized
Overall moat score
32/100
Developing

About SOS Limited

SOS Limited provides data mining and analysis services to corporate and individual members in the People's Republic of China. It offers marketing data, technology, and solutions for insurance companies; emergency rescue services; and insurance product and health care information portals. The company also provides SOS cloud emergency rescue service software as a service platform that offers basic cloud products, such … Full SOS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Conservative Leverage Leverage is conservative vs peers (score 0.96).

Key risks

  • AUM Retention Risk Revenue stickiness is low (stability score 0.13).
  • Below-Peer Return on Equity Return on equity lags peers (score 0.28).

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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Fee Revenue Quality

Developing
38

Where SOS ranks in Capital Markets

SOS Limited ranks #45 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score — the top 67%. The widest moat in the group is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near SOS in Capital Markets
# Company Moat score Rating
41 Metalpha Technology Holding Lim MATH 36/100 Developing
42 Garden Stage Limited GSIW 35/100 Developing
43 Greenidge Generation Holdings I GREE 34/100 Developing
44 Forge Global Holdings, Inc. FRGE 33/100 Developing
45 SOS Limited SOS 32/100 Developing
46 ATIF Holdings Limited ZBAI 31/100 Developing
47 Bit Digital, Inc. BTBT 28/100 Developing
48 BTCS Inc. BTCS 28/100 Developing
49 MDB Capital Holdings, LLC MDBH 25/100 Developing

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How SOS scores on the Asset Management Specialized defenses

Fee Revenue Quality

Score 38 · 20% of the moat score

Fee revenue quality is the ability to charge above the industry's falling average and keep charging it.

Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness

Score 14 · 18% of the moat score

Assets under management leave far more easily than they arrive, and the fee leaves with them.

Compensation Discipline

Score 31 · 18% of the moat score

Compensation is the largest expense in asset management and the one that decides whether a good year ever reaches shareholders.

Capital Efficiency

Score 34 · 20% of the moat score

Asset managers are asset-light: with little capital employed, a healthy business should earn a very high return on equity, and a merely average one is a real warning.

Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion

Score 28 · 14% of the moat score

Reported profits here can be flattered by performance fees, seed-capital gains and consolidated fund accounting, none of which recur reliably.

Balance Sheet Strength

Score 54 · 10% of the moat score

Because the business needs so little capital, an asset manager carrying meaningful debt has usually borrowed to buy another manager or to fund distributions.

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Understanding SOS's moat

What is SOS Limited's moat score?

SOS Limited (SOS) scores 32 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #45 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets, the top 67%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 74 companies in Capital Markets. Its strongest defense is Balance Sheet Strength (54/100) and its weakest is Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (14/100).

How does SOS Limited compare with other Capital Markets companies?

SOS Limited ranks #45 of 67 scored companies in Capital Markets by moat score. The widest moat in Capital Markets is Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Forge Global Holdings, Inc. (FRGE) at 33 just above it and ATIF Holdings Limited (ZBAI) at 31 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Asset Management Specialized 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 74 companies in Capital Markets. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is SOS Limited scored with the Asset Management Specialized template?

An asset manager owns almost nothing. It charges a fee on someone else's money, pays much of that fee out in compensation, and keeps the remainder — so its economics turn on the fee rate it can defend, whether client money stays, and how much revenue survives the bonus pool. The Asset Management template scores those questions rather than the balance sheet, which in this industry is largely beside the point.

Which competitive defenses are measured for SOS Limited?

The Asset Management Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and SOS scores: Fee Revenue Quality (38), Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (14), Compensation Discipline (31), Capital Efficiency (34), Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (28), Balance Sheet Strength (54). 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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