Tutor Perini Corporation TPC

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
50/100
Moderate

About Tutor Perini Corporation

Tutor Perini Corporation, a construction company, provides diversified general contracting, construction management, and design-build services to private customers and public agencies worldwide. It operates through three segments: Civil, Building, and Specialty Contractors. The Civil segment engages in the public works construction and the replacement and reconstruction of infrastructure; and offers contracting services, including construction and rehabilitation of highways, bridges, tunnels, … Full TPC analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.72), with robust interest coverage.
  • Consistent Cash Generation Cash generation is strong and consistent (score 0.84).

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 37.8th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.39), suggesting limited competitive advantage.

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

Developing
34

Where TPC ranks in Engineering & Construction

Tutor Perini Corporation ranks #27 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction by moat score — the top 55%. The widest moat in the group is Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (STRL) at 79/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near TPC in Engineering & Construction
# Company Moat score Rating
23 AECOM ACM 59/100 Moderate
24 Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. BBCP 59/100 Moderate
25 APi Group Corporation APG 58/100 Moderate
26 MasTec, Inc. MTZ 53/100 Moderate
27 Tutor Perini Corporation TPC 50/100 Moderate
28 Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. BWMN 46/100 Developing
29 Ameresco, Inc. AMRC 45/100 Developing
30 Skyline Builders Group Holding SKBL 42/100 Developing
31 Orion Group Holdings, Inc. ORN 42/100 Developing

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How TPC scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 34 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 55 · 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 64 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 46 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 67 · 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 39 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding TPC's moat

What is Tutor Perini Corporation's moat score?

Tutor Perini Corporation (TPC) scores 50 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #27 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction, the top 55%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 48 companies in Engineering & Construction. Its strongest defense is Resilience (67/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (34/100).

How does Tutor Perini Corporation compare with other Engineering & Construction companies?

Tutor Perini Corporation ranks #27 of 49 scored companies in Engineering & Construction by moat score. The widest moat in Engineering & Construction is Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (STRL) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are MasTec, Inc. (MTZ) at 53 just above it and Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (BWMN) at 46 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 48 companies in Engineering & Construction. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Tutor Perini Corporation 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 Tutor Perini Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and TPC scores: Pricing Power (34), Cost Advantage (55), Customer Stickiness (64), Capital Efficiency (46), Resilience (67), Scale & Market Position (39). 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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