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Domino's Pizza (MEX:DPZ) Moat Score : 8/10 (As of Jul. 02, 2025)


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What is Domino's Pizza Moat Score?

Domino's Pizza has the Moat Score of 8, which implies that the company might have Wide Moat - Clear and robust wide moat.

Domino's Pizza has Wide Moat: Domino's Pizza has a robust wide moat due to its strong brand, superior distribution network, and significant economies of scale. The company benefits from strong customer loyalty and pricing power, ensuring durable competitive advantages.

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 Domino's Pizza might have Wide Moat - Clear and robust wide moat.


Competitive Comparison of Domino's Pizza's Moat Score

For the Restaurants subindustry, Domino's Pizza'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.


Domino's Pizza's Moat Score Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Domino's Pizza's Moat Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Domino's Pizza's Moat Score falls into.


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Domino's Pizza  (MEX:DPZ) 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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Domino's Pizza Business Description

Address
30 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 48105
Domino's is a restaurant operator and franchiser with nearly 21,400 global stores across more than 90 international markets at the end of 2024. The firm generates revenue through the sales of pizza, wings, salads, sandwiches, and desserts at company-owned stores, royalty and marketing contributions from franchise-operated stores, and its network of 25 domestic (and five Canadian) dough manufacturing and supply chain facilities, which centralize purchasing, preparation, and last-mile delivery for the firm's US and Canadian restaurants. With roughly $19.2 billion in 2024 system sales, Domino's is the largest player in the global pizza market, ahead of Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, and narrow-moat Papa John's.