Buy Like Buffett

The Moat Index

Phoenix Motor Inc.

PEVM · Consumer Discretionary · FY2024 filings · No moat ·

Doesn't clear the bar

14/ 100
No moat

The four filters

Pricing power0

Median gross margin 5.0% over 4y, variable.

Returns on capital0

Median ROIC -136.1%, above the 9% hurdle in 0% of years.

Balance-sheet safety28

Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -238x.

Capital discipline44

Owner earnings trend unclear, share count n/a.

Margin of safety

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

Phoenix Motor Inc. booked $31.2M of revenue in FY2024 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 22.6% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 25.5% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

It earned −200.9% on invested capital in FY2024, with a median of −136.1% across 3 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.

The balance sheet carried $1.2M of total debt in FY2024 against $9.7M of owner earnings — roughly 0.1 years of owner earnings to retire it all. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 28/100.

Put together: Capital Discipline is the strongest of the four filters (44/100) and Pricing Power the weakest (0/100), which is how PEVM lands at 14/100 — 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–FY2024 · 5 fiscal years, normalized from PEVM’s SEC filings

RevenueSales, as filed$31.2M FY2024
$0$20M202020222024
Gross marginRevenue kept after cost of goods22.6% FY2024
−20%0%20%202020222024
Return on invested capitalOperating profit on the capital employed−200.9% FY2024
−200%−100%0%202020222024
Owner earningsCash an owner could take out$9.7M FY2024
−$20M$0202020222024

Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in PEVM’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 scale14.3 / 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 — PEVM 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 Phoenix Motor 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 PEVM on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.

0406080100WideNarrowShallowNo moatAs-of Moat Score100Indexed price · log scale 2022202320242025

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 indexed price path isn't available for this company yet; 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, PEVM 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.

Consumer Discretionary context

#346 of 359 scored Consumer Discretionary companies, ranked by Moat Score.

Nearest peers by Moat Score

  1. #344GFLT GenFlat Holdings, Inc.14.3No moat
  2. #345NXXT NEXTNRG, INC.14.3No moat
  3. #347XWEL XWELL, Inc.13.5No moat
  4. #348AZIO Envirotech Vehicles, Inc.13.4No moat

Compare PEVM with its nearest peers →All Consumer Discretionary companies on the Index →

Common questions about PEVM

Does Phoenix Motor Inc. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2024 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores Phoenix Motor Inc. (PEVM) 14.3 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The four filters behind that score (each 0–100): pricing power 0, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 28, capital discipline 44.
How has PEVM's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 1 reading since Jul 18, 2026; the latest reads 14.3 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Embed this score on your site

One iframe, no script. The badge shows PEVM’s live Moat Score, updates itself as new filings are scored, and links back here. How it works.

<iframe
  src="https://buylikebuffett.com/embed/PEVM"
  width="340" height="150" style="border:0"
  title="PEVM Moat Score — The Moat Index"
  loading="lazy"></iframe>

Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell PEVM. See the disclaimer.