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ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP.

AIN · Consumer Discretionary · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

38/ 100
No moat

The four filters

Pricing power50

Median gross margin 37.3% over 10y, stable.

Returns on capital43

Median ROIC 10.0%, above the 9% hurdle in 60% of years.

Balance-sheet safety0

Net debt/EBITDA 6.6x, interest coverage -1x.

Capital discipline50

Owner earnings trend unclear, share count shrinking (buybacks).

Margin of safety

Above valueOn sale
No price data
Owner earnings (normalized)
$96.7M
Est. intrinsic value / share
—
Recent price
$74.54
Discount to value
No price data

Conservative model: 9% discount rate, 0% assumed growth (capped at 4%), maintenance capex ≈ min(capex, D&A).

18 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP. booked $1.2B of revenue in FY2025 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 20.6% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −4.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue grew from $737.6M (FY2009) to $1.2B (FY2025) — about 3.0% a year compounded over 16 years.

It earned −2.7% on invested capital in FY2025, with a median of 8.2% across 16 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 43/100.

The balance sheet carried $455.7M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 0/100.

The share count has held roughly flat between FY2009 and FY2024. Capital Discipline scores it 50/100.

Put together: Capital Discipline is the strongest of the four filters (50/100) and Balance-Sheet Safety the weakest (0/100), which is how AIN lands at 38/100 — a None moat.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.

FY2008–FY2025 · 18 fiscal years, normalized from AIN’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$1.2B FY2025
$0$500M$1B2008201420202025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods20.6% FY2025
0%20%40%2008201420202025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed−2.7% FY2025
0%10%2008201420202025
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out−$39.3M FY2025
$0$100M2008201420202025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in AIN’s filings for that year — the series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.

Moat Score history

3 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale37.7 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 17, 2026

Score history begins Jul 17, 2026 — the record builds from here and can’t be backfilled.

Tier changesSame-methodology crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars

None yet — AIN has read No moat for every logged capture since Jul 17, 2026.

Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record can’t be backfilled, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.

Consumer Discretionary context

#229 of 340 scored Consumer Discretionary companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #227III Information Services Group Inc.38.1No moat
  2. #228HOG Harley-Davidson, Inc.37.8No moat
  3. #230BNED BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION, INC.37.5No moat
  4. #231PLCE THE CHILDREN’S PLACE, INC.37.4No moat

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Common questions about AIN

Does ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP. (AIN) 37.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The four filters behind that score (each 0–100): pricing power 50, returns on capital 43, balance-sheet safety 0, capital discipline 50.
How has AIN's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 3 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 37.7 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
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