SU Group Holdings Limited SUGP

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
58/100
Moderate

About SU Group Holdings Limited

SU Group Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated security-related services company in Hong Kong and internationally. It operates in two segments, Security-Related Engineering Services Business, and Security Guarding and Screening Services Business. The company primarily provides security-related engineering, security guarding and screening, and related vocational training services. It also engages in the design, supply, installation, maintenance, and … Full SUGP analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.96), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.95), with robust interest coverage.

Key risks

  • Revenue Volatility Signals Weak Stickiness Revenue volatility is high (stability score 0.08), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.

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

Moderate
68

Where SUGP ranks in Security & Protection Services

SU Group Holdings Limited ranks #12 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services by moat score — the top 44%. The widest moat in the group is NAPCO Security Technologies, In (NSSC) at 84/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near SUGP in Security & Protection Services
# Company Moat score Rating
8 Senstar Technologies Corporatio SNT 64/100 Moderate
9 CoreCivic, Inc. CXW 60/100 Moderate
10 Geo Group Inc (The) REIT GEO 59/100 Moderate
11 Mistras Group Inc MG 58/100 Moderate
12 SU Group Holdings Limited SUGP 58/100 Moderate
13 NL Industries, Inc. NL 49/100 Developing
14 Bridger Aerospace Group Holding BAERW 47/100 Developing
15 Bridger Aerospace Group Holding BAER 44/100 Developing
16 SuperCom, Ltd. SPCB 43/100 Developing

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How SUGP scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 68 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 54 · 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 72 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 72 · 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 34 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding SUGP's moat

What is SU Group Holdings Limited's moat score?

SU Group Holdings Limited (SUGP) scores 58 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #12 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services, the top 44%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 26 companies in Security & Protection Services. Its strongest defense is Resilience (72/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (34/100).

How does SU Group Holdings Limited compare with other Security & Protection Services companies?

SU Group Holdings Limited ranks #12 of 27 scored companies in Security & Protection Services by moat score. The widest moat in Security & Protection Services is NAPCO Security Technologies, In (NSSC) at 84/100. The companies ranked closest are Mistras Group Inc (MG) at 58 just above it and NL Industries, Inc. (NL) at 49 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 26 companies in Security & Protection Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is SU Group Holdings Limited 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 SU Group Holdings Limited?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SUGP scores: Pricing Power (68), Cost Advantage (54), Customer Stickiness (38), Capital Efficiency (72), Resilience (72), Scale & Market Position (34). 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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