The Timken Company designs, manufactures, and sells engineered bearings and industrial motion products, and related services in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Engineered Bearings and Industrial Motion. The Engineered Bearings segment provides various bearing products, including tapered, spherical, and cylindrical roller bearings; plain bearings, metal-polymer bearings, and rod end bearings; radial, angular, and precision …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.97), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Where TKR ranks in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment
Timken Company (The) ranks #57 of 216
scored companies in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment by moat score — the top 26%.
The widest moat in the group is Snap-On Incorporated (SNA)
at 88/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near TKR in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 69
· 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 71
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 65
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 56
· 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 53
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Timken Company (The) (TKR) scores 65 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #57 of 216 scored companies in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment, the top 26%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 215 companies in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (74/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (53/100).
How does Timken Company (The) compare with other Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment companies?
Timken Company (The) ranks #57 of 216 scored companies in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment by moat score. The widest moat in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment is Snap-On Incorporated (SNA) at 88/100. The companies ranked closest are Kadant Inc (KAI) at 65 just above it and CNH Industrial N.V. (CNH) at 65 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 215 companies in Industrials: Machinery, Electrical & Equipment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Timken Company (The) 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 Timken Company (The)?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and TKR scores: Pricing Power (74), Cost Advantage (69), Customer Stickiness (71), Capital Efficiency (65), Resilience (56), Scale & Market Position (53). 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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