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Old Second Bancorp, Inc.

OSBC ·Financial, Banks - Regional, United States
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Moat Score — Old Second Bancorp, Inc.

Total Moat Score 6 / 30
Moat Factor Score Analysis
Intangible Assets Patents, trademarks, brand strength, or regulatory licenses that protect a company's products or services from being freely copied by competitors. 1 / 5 A long operating history and local brand recognition in the Chicago area provide mild goodwill, but no proprietary technology or structural intangible advantage.
Cost Advantage A durable ability to produce goods or services more cheaply than competitors — through scale, unique access to cheap inputs, location, or process — that lets a company undercut rivals or out-earn them at the same price. 1 / 5 Deposit costs are set competitively against numerous Chicago-area banks; Old Second has no structural funding-cost edge over similarly sized peers.
Pricing Power The ability to raise prices without losing meaningful business, because the product or service is differentiated, mission-critical, or has few good substitutes. 1 / 5 Loan and deposit pricing in the highly competitive Chicago market is largely market-driven, leaving limited independent pricing power.
Network Effect The product or service becomes more valuable to every user as more people or organizations use it, making an established leader harder to displace. 0 / 5 Community banking services carry no network effect between customers.
Switching Costs The money, time, or operational disruption a customer would face switching to a competitor, which locks in existing customers and supports renewals. 2 / 5 Established commercial banking relationships, treasury management integrations, and trust/wealth management accounts create meaningful switching friction for existing clients.
Efficient Scale A market that can only profitably support a small number of players, so incumbents face limited threat from new entrants even without other defenses. 1 / 5 The Chicago metro banking market is large and fragmented with many competitors of similar or greater scale, limiting any efficient-scale protection for Old Second.