Seagate Technology Holdings plc engages in the provision of data storage technology and infrastructure solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. It also offers legacy applications …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Cost Leadership PositionOperating margin at 93.9th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 96.9th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
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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Seagate Technology Holdings PLC ranks #6 of 36
scored companies in Computer Hardware by moat score — the top 17%.
The widest moat in the group is Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET)
at 86/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near STX in Computer Hardware
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 94
· 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 74
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 71
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 52
· 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 81
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Seagate Technology Holdings PLC's moat score?
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX) scores 73 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #6 of 36 scored companies in Computer Hardware, the top 17%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 35 companies in Computer Hardware. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (94/100) and its weakest is Resilience (52/100).
How does Seagate Technology Holdings PLC compare with other Computer Hardware companies?
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC ranks #6 of 36 scored companies in Computer Hardware by moat score. The widest moat in Computer Hardware is Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET) at 86/100. The companies ranked closest are Western Digital Corporation (WDC) at 76 just above it and Pure Storage, Inc. (PSTG) at 69 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 35 companies in Computer Hardware. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 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 Seagate Technology Holdings PLC?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and STX scores: Pricing Power (69), Cost Advantage (94), Customer Stickiness (74), Capital Efficiency (71), Resilience (52), Scale & Market Position (81). 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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