TreeHouse Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes private brands snacks and beverages in the United States and internationally. The company provides snacking products, such as crackers, pretzels, in-store bakery items, frozen griddle items, cookies, and candies; and beverage and drink mixes, including non-dairy creamer, coffee, broths/stocks, powdered beverages and other blends, tea, and ready-to-drink-beverages. It also offers groceries comprising pickles, refrigerated …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.75), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Operating Leverage in EffectOperating leverage is evident (score 0.65), with margins expanding over time.
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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Treehouse Foods, Inc. ranks #32 of 73
scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score — the top 44%.
The widest moat in the group is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V)
at 79/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near THS in Packaged Foods
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 68
· 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 53
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 47
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 46
· 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 51
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Treehouse Foods, Inc. (THS) scores 52 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #32 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods, the top 44%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 72 companies in Packaged Foods. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (68/100) and its weakest is Resilience (46/100).
How does Treehouse Foods, Inc. compare with other Packaged Foods companies?
Treehouse Foods, Inc. ranks #32 of 73 scored companies in Packaged Foods by moat score. The widest moat in Packaged Foods is McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC-V) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are General Mills, Inc. (GIS) at 54 just above it and B&G Foods, Inc. (BGS) at 52 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 72 companies in Packaged Foods. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Treehouse Foods, 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 Treehouse Foods, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and THS scores: Pricing Power (51), Cost Advantage (68), Customer Stickiness (53), Capital Efficiency (47), Resilience (46), Scale & Market Position (51). 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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