World Kinect Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy management company in the United States, rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in three segments: Aviation, Land, and Marine. The Aviation segment supplies jet fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, aviation gasoline, and aviation fuel to commercial and international airlines, regional airlines, …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Stable Across CyclesOperating margin volatility is low (stability score 0.88), demonstrating pricing resilience across cycles.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 5.9th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.12), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
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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World Kinect Corporation ranks #15 of 19
scored companies in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing by moat score — the top 79%.
The widest moat in the group is Star Group L.P. (SGU)
at 81/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near WKC in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 32
· 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 17
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 25
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 31
· 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 28
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
World Kinect Corporation (WKC) scores 31 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #15 of 19 scored companies in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing, the top 79%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 18 companies in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (50/100) and its weakest is Customer Stickiness (17/100).
How does World Kinect Corporation compare with other Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing companies?
World Kinect Corporation ranks #15 of 19 scored companies in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing by moat score. The widest moat in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing is Star Group L.P. (SGU) at 81/100. The companies ranked closest are Icahn Enterprises L.P. - Deposi (IEP) at 35 just above it and CVR Energy Inc. (CVI) at 29 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 18 companies in Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is World Kinect 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 World Kinect Corporation?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and WKC scores: Pricing Power (50), Cost Advantage (32), Customer Stickiness (17), Capital Efficiency (25), Resilience (31), Scale & Market Position (28). 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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