Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto WHD

Competitive advantage analysis · energy

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
78/100
Strong

About Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto

Cactus, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sells, and rents engineered pressure control and spoolable pipe technologies in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, and internationally. The company operates in two segments: Pressure Control and Spoolable Technologies. The Pressure Control segment designs, manufactures, sells, and rents a range of wellheads and pressure control equipment under the Cactus … Full WHD analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 37.0% (top 17%) and operating margin at 23.2% (top 8%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • Margins Stable Across Cycles Operating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.89), 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

Strong
88

Where WHD ranks in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto ranks #1 of 50 scored companies in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services by moat score — the top 2%. That makes it the widest moat in the group.

Moat scores for companies ranked near WHD in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
# Company Moat score Rating
1 Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto WHD 78/100 Strong
2 USA Compression Partners, LP USAC 77/100 Strong
3 Archrock, Inc. AROC 72/100 Moderate
4 LandBridge Company LLC LB 71/100 Moderate
5 TechnipFMC plc FTI 69/100 Moderate
6 Schlumberger N.V. SLB 69/100 Moderate
7 Tidewater Inc. TDW 69/100 Moderate
8 Tenaris S.A. TS 68/100 Moderate
9 Flowco Holdings Inc. FLOC 67/100 Moderate

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How WHD scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 88 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 59 · 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 70 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 86 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 91 · 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 66 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding WHD's moat

What is Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto's moat score?

Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto (WHD) scores 78 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as strong. It ranks #1 of 50 scored companies in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services, the top 2%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 49 companies in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services. Its strongest defense is Resilience (91/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (59/100).

How does Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto compare with other Oil & Gas Equipment & Services companies?

Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto ranks #1 of 50 scored companies in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services by moat score. That is the widest moat in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services. The companies ranked closest are USA Compression Partners, LP (USAC) at 77 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 49 companies in Oil & Gas Equipment & Services. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto 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 Cactus, Inc. Class A Common Sto?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and WHD scores: Pricing Power (88), Cost Advantage (59), Customer Stickiness (70), Capital Efficiency (86), Resilience (91), Scale & Market Position (66). 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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