Xcel Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and consumer products company in the United States. The company engages in designing, licensing, marketing, live streaming, and social commerce sales of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery, home goods, and other consumer products. Its brand portfolio includes Halston, Judith Ripka, C Wonder, TowerHill by Christie Brinkley, LB70 by Lloyd Boston, …
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ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 15.0th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Below-Peer Operating EfficiencyOperating margin at 4.0th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.
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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Xcel Brands, Inc ranks #25 of 26
scored companies in Apparel Manufacturing by moat score — the top 96%.
The widest moat in the group is Ralph Lauren Corporation (RL)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near XELB in Apparel Manufacturing
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 5
· 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 16
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 20
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 29
· 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 31
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Xcel Brands, Inc (XELB) scores 20 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #25 of 26 scored companies in Apparel Manufacturing, the top 96%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 25 companies in Apparel Manufacturing. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (31/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (5/100).
How does Xcel Brands, Inc compare with other Apparel Manufacturing companies?
Xcel Brands, Inc ranks #25 of 26 scored companies in Apparel Manufacturing by moat score. The widest moat in Apparel Manufacturing is Ralph Lauren Corporation (RL) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are JX Luxventure Group Inc. (JXG) at 20 just above it and Perfect Moment Ltd. (PMNT) at 19 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 25 companies in Apparel Manufacturing. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Xcel Brands, Inc 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 Xcel Brands, Inc?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and XELB scores: Pricing Power (16), Cost Advantage (5), Customer Stickiness (16), Capital Efficiency (20), Resilience (29), Scale & Market Position (31). 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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