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ESG INC.

ESGH · Agriculture · $46.4M mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

13/ 100
No moat

The four filters

Pricing power2

Median gross margin 16.0% over 4y, variable.

Returns on capital7

Median ROIC -9.1%, above the 9% hurdle in 20% of years.

Balance-sheet safety28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage 0x.

Capital discipline24

Owner earnings trend unclear, share count growing (dilution).

Margin of safety

Above valueOn sale
1385% above value
Owner earnings (normalized)
$281042
Est. intrinsic value / share
$0.12
Recent price
$1.79
Discount to value
1385% above value

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

5 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

ESG INC. booked $6.1M of revenue in FY2025 in the Agriculture sector and kept 8.5% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −31.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

It earned −18.0% on invested capital in FY2025, with a median of −9.1% across 5 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 7/100.

The balance sheet carried $1.1M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 28/100.

Put together: Balance-Sheet Safety is the strongest of the four filters (28/100) and Pricing Power the weakest (2/100), which is how ESGH lands at 13/100 — 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.

FY2021–FY2025 · 5 fiscal years, normalized from ESGH’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$6.1M FY2025
$0$5M$10M202120232025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods8.5% FY2025
0%20%202120232025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed−18.0% FY2025
−20%0%202120232025
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out−$288364 FY2025
$0$1M$2M202120232025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in ESGH’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

1 logged reading since Jul 18, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten

Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale12.9 / 100
0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatJul 18, 2026

Score history begins Jul 18, 2026 — the record builds from here and can’t be backfilled.

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

None yet — ESGH has read No moat for every logged capture since Jul 18, 2026.

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

Track record

How ESG INC.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.

As-of scores 2022–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight

As-of Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year

How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored ESGH on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatAs-of Moat Score1002005001,000Indexed price · log scale (2024 = 100)20222023202420252026

Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.

What followed, in the years it rated Wide

In the reconstructed history shown, ESGH did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.

Agriculture context

#17 of 18 scored Agriculture companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #14AQB AquaBounty Technologies, Inc.15.4No moat
  2. #15EDBL EDIBLE GARDEN AG INCORPORATED14.3No moat
  3. #16LOCL Local Bounti Corporation/DE14.3No moat
  4. #18LMNR LIMONEIRA COMPANY10.3No moat

Compare ESGH with its nearest peers →All Agriculture companies on the Index →

Common questions about ESGH

Does ESG INC. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores ESG INC. (ESGH) 12.9 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The four filters behind that score (each 0–100): pricing power 2, returns on capital 7, balance-sheet safety 28, capital discipline 24.
Is ESGH stock trading below its intrinsic value?
Against a deliberately conservative owner-earnings model (9% discount rate, 0% assumed growth, capped at 4%), estimated intrinsic value is $0.12 per share versus a recent price of $1.79 — 1385% above value. This is an educational estimate computed from primary SEC filings, not investment advice.
How has ESGH's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 1 reading since Jul 18, 2026; the latest reads 12.9 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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