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GE Vernova Inc.

GEV · Industrials · $285.1B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

35/ 100
No moat

The four filters

Pricing power10

Median gross margin 16.0% over 4y, variable.

Returns on capital9

Median ROIC -3.2%, above the 9% hurdle in 25% of years.

Balance-sheet safety100

Net cash position — no leverage risk.

Capital discipline47

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

Margin of safety

Above valueOn sale
No price data
Owner earnings (normalized)
—
Est. intrinsic value / share
—
Recent price
$1057.84
Discount to value
No price data

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

GE Vernova Inc. booked $38.1B of revenue in FY2025 in the Industrials sector and kept 19.8% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 12.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

It earned 58.0% on invested capital in FY2025, with a median of −3.2% across 4 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 9/100.

The balance sheet carried $63.0M of total debt in FY2025 against $3.6B of owner earnings — roughly 0.0 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 100/100.

Put together: Balance-Sheet Safety is the strongest of the four filters (100/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (9/100), which is how GEV lands at 35/100 — 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 GEV’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$38.1B FY2025
$0$20B$40B202120232025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods19.8% FY2025
0%10%20%202120232025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed58.0% FY2025
0%50%202120232025
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out$3.6B FY2025
$0202120232025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in GEV’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 scale35.1 / 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 — GEV 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 GE Vernova 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 2024–2025, 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 GEV on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatAs-of Moat Score100200Indexed price · log scale (2025 = 100)202420252026

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, GEV 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.

Industrials context

#183 of 327 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #181RCL ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD35.4No moat
  2. #182NASC Can B Corp.35.3No moat
  3. #184INGM Ingram Micro Holding Corp34.9No moat
  4. #185SONO SONOS, INC.34.8No moat

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Common questions about GEV

Does GE Vernova Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores GE Vernova Inc. (GEV) 35.1 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The four filters behind that score (each 0–100): pricing power 10, returns on capital 9, balance-sheet safety 100, capital discipline 47.
How has GEV's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 1 reading since Jul 18, 2026; the latest reads 35.1 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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Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell GEV. See the disclaimer.