VS Media Holdings Limited VSME

Competitive advantage analysis · communication-services

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
18/100
Weak

About VS Media Holdings Limited

VS MEDIA Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, operates a network of digital creators who create and upload content to social media platforms in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It provides marketing services for brands, including strategy development, creator selection, branding and messaging, content creation and distribution, social media amplification, social media engagement, and data insights and measurement; and creates and … Full VSME analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 37.8th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 11.1th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.

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
14

Where VSME ranks in Advertising Agencies

VS Media Holdings Limited ranks #35 of 45 scored companies in Advertising Agencies by moat score — the top 78%. The widest moat in the group is Glory Star New Media Group Hold (GSMGW) at 83/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near VSME in Advertising Agencies
# Company Moat score Rating
31 Entravision Communications Corp EVC 32/100 Developing
32 ZW Data Action Technologies Inc CNET 26/100 Developing
33 QMMM Holdings Limited QMMM 19/100 Weak
34 Star Fashion Culture Holdings L STFS 18/100 Weak
35 VS Media Holdings Limited VSME 18/100 Weak
36 Direct Digital Holdings, Inc. DRCT 17/100 Weak
37 TuanChe Limited TC 13/100 Weak
38 Baosheng Media Group Holdings L BAOS 9/100 Weak
39 AirNet Technology Inc. ANTE 0/100 Weak

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How VSME scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 14 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 11 · 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 31 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 6 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 26 · 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 20 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding VSME's moat

What is VS Media Holdings Limited's moat score?

VS Media Holdings Limited (VSME) scores 18 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #35 of 45 scored companies in Advertising Agencies, the top 78%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 44 companies in Advertising Agencies. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (31/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (6/100).

How does VS Media Holdings Limited compare with other Advertising Agencies companies?

VS Media Holdings Limited ranks #35 of 45 scored companies in Advertising Agencies by moat score. The widest moat in Advertising Agencies is Glory Star New Media Group Hold (GSMGW) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Star Fashion Culture Holdings L (STFS) at 18 just above it and Direct Digital Holdings, Inc. (DRCT) at 17 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 44 companies in Advertising Agencies. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is VS Media Holdings Limited 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 VS Media Holdings Limited?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and VSME scores: Pricing Power (14), Cost Advantage (11), Customer Stickiness (31), Capital Efficiency (6), Resilience (26), Scale & Market Position (20). 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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