SuRo Capital Corp. is a venture capital, mezzanine, secondary(direct) and business development company specializing in growth capital, emerging growth, late stage and venture capital-backed private companies. It prefers to invest in energy and utilities, consumer, technology, media and communication sectors. The firm prefers to invest in United States of America and Canada. The firm only seeks minority stakes. SuRo Capital …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
High Return on EquityReturn on equity ranks highly vs peers (score 0.91).
Key risks
Margin Erosion TrendMargin trend is deteriorating (score 0.14).
Volatile Earnings QualityEarnings stability is low (score 0.09).
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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SuRo Capital Corp. ranks #100 of 173
scored companies in Asset Management by moat score — the top 58%.
The widest moat in the group is Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc (SPMC)
at 77/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near SSSS in Asset Management
How SSSS scores on the Asset Management Specialized defenses
Fee Revenue Quality
Score 44
· 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 52
· 18% of the moat score
Assets under management leave far more easily than they arrive, and the fee leaves with them.
Compensation Discipline
Score 33
· 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 67
· 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 42
· 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 38
· 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.
SuRo Capital Corp. (SSSS) scores 47 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #100 of 173 scored companies in Asset Management, the top 58%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 174 companies in Asset Management. Its strongest defense is Capital Efficiency (67/100) and its weakest is Compensation Discipline (33/100).
How does SuRo Capital Corp. compare with other Asset Management companies?
SuRo Capital Corp. ranks #100 of 173 scored companies in Asset Management by moat score. The widest moat in Asset Management is Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc (SPMC) at 77/100. The companies ranked closest are MidCap Financial Investment Cor (MFIC) at 47 just above it and Brookfield Corporation (BN) at 47 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 174 companies in Asset Management. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is SuRo Capital Corp. 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 SuRo Capital Corp.?
The Asset Management Specialized template measures 6 defenses, and SSSS scores: Fee Revenue Quality (44), Client Retention & Revenue Stickiness (52), Compensation Discipline (33), Capital Efficiency (67), Earnings Quality & Cash Conversion (42), Balance Sheet Strength (38). 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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