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MasterBrand, Inc.

MBC · Materials · $1.1B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

32/ 100
No moat

The four filters

Pricing power48

Median gross margin 30.3% over 5y, very stable.

Returns on capital27

Median ROIC 8.0%, above the 9% hurdle in 40% of years.

Balance-sheet safety0

Net debt/EBITDA 6.7x, interest coverage 2x.

Capital discipline45

Owner earnings trend unclear, share count flat.

Margin of safety

Above valueOn sale
Around fair value
Owner earnings (normalized)
$99.5M
Est. intrinsic value / share
$8.69
Recent price
$8.67
Discount to value
Around fair value

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

6 years of fundamentals

The business, in plain English

MasterBrand, Inc. booked $2.7B of revenue in FY2025 in the Materials sector and kept 30.3% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 1.0% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

It earned 3.6% on invested capital in FY2025, with a median of 8.0% across 5 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 27/100.

The balance sheet carried $985.0M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 0/100.

Put together: Pricing Power is the strongest of the four filters (48/100) and Balance-Sheet Safety the weakest (0/100), which is how MBC lands at 32/100 — 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.

FY2020–FY2025 · 6 fiscal years, normalized from MBC’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$2.7B FY2025
$0$2B2020202220242025
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods30.3% FY2025
0%20%2020202220242025
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed3.6% FY2025
0%10%2020202220242025
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out−$51.5M FY2025
$0$100M2020202220242025

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in MBC’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 scale31.7 / 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 — MBC 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 MasterBrand, 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 2023–2025, 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 MBC 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 (2023 = 100)2023202420252026

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, MBC 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.

Materials context

#150 of 231 scored Materials companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #148ACCO ACCO Brands Corporation32.1No moat
  2. #149OII OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL INC31.7No moat
  3. #151JELD JELD-WEN Holding, Inc.31.4No moat
  4. #152IE Ivanhoe Electric Inc.31.3No moat

Compare MBC with its nearest peers →All Materials companies on the Index →

Common questions about MBC

Does MasterBrand, Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores MasterBrand, Inc. (MBC) 31.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The four filters behind that score (each 0–100): pricing power 48, returns on capital 27, balance-sheet safety 0, capital discipline 45.
Is MBC 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 $8.69 per share versus a recent price of $8.67 — around fair value. This is an educational estimate computed from primary SEC filings, not investment advice.
How has MBC's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 1 reading since Jul 18, 2026; the latest reads 31.7 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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