Veralto Corporation provides water analytics, water treatment, marking and coding, and packaging and color solutions worldwide. It operates through two segments, Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI). The WQ segment offers precision instrumentation and water treatment technologies to measure, analyze, and treat water in residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, research, and natural resource applications under the Hach, Trojan …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 60.0% (top 11%) and operating margin at 23.2% (top 0%) indicate strong pricing power.
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 1.00), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
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 is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 85
· 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 97
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 80
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 63
· 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 65
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Veralto Corp (VLTO) scores 82 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #1 of 20 scored companies in Pollution & Treatment Controls, the top 5%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 19 companies in Pollution & Treatment Controls. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (97/100) and its weakest is Resilience (63/100).
How does Veralto Corp compare with other Pollution & Treatment Controls companies?
Veralto Corp ranks #1 of 20 scored companies in Pollution & Treatment Controls by moat score. That is the widest moat in Pollution & Treatment Controls. The companies ranked closest are Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERII) at 81 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 19 companies in Pollution & Treatment Controls. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Veralto Corp 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 Veralto Corp?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and VLTO scores: Pricing Power (97), Cost Advantage (85), Customer Stickiness (97), Capital Efficiency (80), Resilience (63), Scale & Market Position (65). 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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