Kartoon Studios, Inc. TOON

Competitive advantage analysis · communication-services

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
21/100
Weak

About Kartoon Studios, Inc.

Kartoon Studios Inc., a content and brand management company, creates, produces, licenses, and broadcasts educational and multimedia animated content for children in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through two segments: Content Production and Distribution; and Media Advisory and Advertising Services. The company offers SuperKitties Season 2, a computer-generated animation shows for disney junior; Cocomelon … Full TOON analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Operating Leverage in Effect Operating leverage is evident (score 1.00), with margins expanding over time.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 15.2th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Below-Peer Operating Efficiency Operating margin at 14.9th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.

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

Weak
9

Where TOON ranks in Entertainment

Kartoon Studios, Inc. ranks #42 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment by moat score — the top 75%. The widest moat in the group is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near TOON in Entertainment
# Company Moat score Rating
38 Cineverse Corp. CNVS 27/100 Developing
39 Liberty Media Corporation - Ser LLYVA 27/100 Developing
40 Liberty Media Corporation - Ser LLYVK 25/100 Developing
41 Sphere Entertainment Co. SPHR 24/100 Weak
42 Kartoon Studios, Inc. TOON 21/100 Weak
43 Allied Gaming & Entertainment I AGAE 18/100 Weak
44 Mega Matrix Inc. MPU 17/100 Weak
45 Anghami Inc. ANGH 15/100 Weak
46 Anghami Inc. Warrants ANGHW 15/100 Weak

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How TOON scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 9 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 12 · 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 12 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 17 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 25 · 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 57 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding TOON's moat

What is Kartoon Studios, Inc.'s moat score?

Kartoon Studios, Inc. (TOON) scores 21 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #42 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment, the top 75%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 55 companies in Entertainment. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (57/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (9/100).

How does Kartoon Studios, Inc. compare with other Entertainment companies?

Kartoon Studios, Inc. ranks #42 of 56 scored companies in Entertainment by moat score. The widest moat in Entertainment is Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are Sphere Entertainment Co. (SPHR) at 24 just above it and Allied Gaming & Entertainment I (AGAE) at 18 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 55 companies in Entertainment. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Kartoon Studios, 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 Kartoon Studios, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and TOON scores: Pricing Power (9), Cost Advantage (12), Customer Stickiness (12), Capital Efficiency (17), Resilience (25), Scale & Market Position (57). 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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