SILGAN HOLDINGS INC
SLGN · Industrials · $4.9B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · Shallow moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
2008–2025: revenue 3120992000.00 to 6483166000.00, increasing; diluted EPS 0.41 to 2.70, increasing.
Median gross margin 16.3% over 10y, very stable.
Median ROIC 9.9%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
Insufficient leverage/coverage inputs to score the balance sheet.
Owner earnings +7.8%/yr, share count n/a.
The balanceSheet component abstained: Insufficient leverage/coverage inputs to score the balance sheet. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
Price vs. owner-earnings value range
- Owner earnings (normalized)
- $362.4M
- Value range / share
- $38.19–$38.19
- Conservative high estimate / share
- $38.19
- Recent price
- $46.07
- Price vs. high estimate
- 21% above high estimate
Conservative range under moat-index@2.0.0: low end 11.1×, high end capped at 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
19 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
SILGAN HOLDINGS INC booked $6.5B of revenue in FY2025 in the Industrials sector and kept 17.7% of it as gross profit — a thin-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 4.4% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $3.1B (FY2008) to $6.5B (FY2025) — about 4.4% a year compounded over 17 years.
It earned 9.0% on invested capital in FY2019, with a median of 11.1% across 12 filed years. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 21/100.
The balance sheet carried $4.4B of total debt in FY2025 against $300.5M of owner earnings — roughly 14.5 years of owner earnings to retire it all.
The share count rose 175.4% between FY2009 and FY2025 — existing owners have been diluted over the record. Capital Discipline scores it 65/100.
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.
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in SLGN’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
Tier changesSame-methodology crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 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 SILGAN HOLDINGS 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.
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored SLGN on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
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, SLGN 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
#174 of 423 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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Common questions about SLGN
- Does SILGAN HOLDINGS INC have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores SILGAN HOLDINGS INC (SLGN) 48.7 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 81, pricing power 28, returns on capital 21, balance-sheet safety not measurable from the filings, capital discipline 65.
- Is SLGN trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
- The owner-earnings value range is $38.19–$38.19 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate; the low end assumes 0% growth and the high end uses 0% growth, capped at 4% and 18×. Versus a recent price of $46.07, that is 21% above high estimate relative to the high estimate. This is a conservative educational estimate from primary SEC filings, not intrinsic value as a fact or investment advice.
- How has SLGN's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 9 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 48.7 out of 100 (shallow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (A methodology upgrade on Jul 20, 2026 re-based the score; readings across engine versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.