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ARDT (Ardent Health) Moat Score : 4/10 (As of Jul. 19, 2025)


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What is Ardent Health Moat Score?

Ardent Health has the Moat Score of 4, which implies that the company might have Narrow Moat - Discernible but modest moat.

Ardent Health has Narrow Moat: Ardent Health Partners benefits from some regulatory barriers and a strong regional presence in healthcare. However, it faces significant competition and lacks strong brand strength or customer loyalty, resulting in a discernible but modest moat.

Moat Score is a ranking system developed by GuruFocus to assess a company's ability to sustain a competitive advantage, rated on a scale from 0 to 10. It takes into account key factors such as market leadership, cost advantages, network effects, customer switching costs, and more.

The company's Moat Score is based on these criteria:

1. Market leadership and sustainable market share
2. Network effects and significant customer switching costs
3. Valuable intellectual property and patents
4. Strong brand strength and deep customer loyalty
5. Durable cost advantages (e.g., economies of scale, proprietary technology)
6. Significant regulatory barriers and exclusive licenses
7. Superior distribution network
8. Strong and sustainable pricing power
9. Consistent and impactful innovation and R&D capabilities

Based on the research, GuruFocus believes Ardent Health might have Narrow Moat - Discernible but modest moat.


Competitive Comparison of Ardent Health's Moat Score

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Ardent Health's Moat Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Moat Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Ardent Health's Moat Score Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Ardent Health's Moat Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ardent Health's Moat Score falls into.


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Ardent Health  (NYSE:ARDT) Moat Score Explanation

The Moat Score ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 as the highest. GuruFocus divided Moat Score into following 8 categories:

Moat Score Moat Level
10Wide Moat - Exceptionally dominant and durable wide moat
8 - 9Wide Moat - Clear and robust wide moat
7Wide Moat - Entry-level wide moat, clearly possessing durable advantages
6Narrow Moat - Strong narrow moat, clearly distinguishable but not wide
5Narrow Moat - Solid narrow moat
4Narrow Moat - Discernible but modest moat
1 - 3No Moat - Very weak/transient advantages
0No Moat - No discernible moat

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Ardent Health Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, TN, USA, 37027
Ardent Health Partners Inc is an operator of hospitals and a provider of healthcare services in the United States. It provides both general and specialty services, including internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, women's services, neurology, urology, and emergency services, within inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The company has one reportable segment: healthcare services that provides healthcare services predominantly through its ownership and operation of hospitals, certain of which provide related healthcare services through physician practices, outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities. Ardent has 30 acute care hospitals, more than 200 sites of care that operate across six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas.