🏗️ GTIAS Risk Leaderboard

Capital Intensity & Asset Rigidity

Industries ranked by how permanently their capital is sunk into specific, immobile, or long-life assets, based on the GTIAS Asset Rigidity & Capital Barrier attribute (ER03).

25 Industries Ranked

422 Total Industries Scored

ER03 GTIAS Attribute

What this tells you

High-scoring industries carry heavy, illiquid fixed investments that cannot be redeployed — strategic pivots or market exit are expensive and slow.

Top 25 — Capital Intensity & Asset Rigidity

Ranked directly by the Asset Rigidity & Capital Barrier score (GTIAS ER03) — not a pillar average. Score out of 5.0 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure.

#	ISIC	Industry	Risk Score
1	0123	Growing of citrus fruits	5/5
2	0210	Silviculture and other forestry activities	5/5
3	0520	Mining of lignite	5/5
4	0610	Extraction of crude petroleum	5/5
5	0620	Extraction of natural gas	5/5
6	0721	Mining of uranium and thorium ores	5/5
7	0729	Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores	5/5
8	0910	Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction	5/5
9	1910	Manufacture of coke oven products	5/5
10	2011	Manufacture of basic chemicals	5/5
11	2012	Manufacture of fertilizers and nitrogen compounds	5/5
12	2013	Manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms	5/5
13	2410	Manufacture of basic iron and steel	5/5
14	3510	Electric power generation, transmission and distribution	5/5
15	3600	Water collection, treatment and supply	5/5
16	0127	Growing of beverage crops	4/5
17	0129	Growing of other perennial crops	4/5
18	0146	Raising of poultry	4/5
19	0230	Gathering of non-wood forest products	4/5
20	0510	Mining of hard coal	4/5
21	0710	Mining of iron ores	4/5
22	0810	Quarrying of stone, sand and clay	4/5
23	0891	Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals	4/5
24	0892	Extraction of peat	4/5
25	0893	Extraction of salt	4/5

Methodology

Rankings reflect the ER03 — Asset Rigidity & Capital Barrier score directly for each of 422 profiled industries that have an assessed score for this attribute — not a pillar average. Scores range from 0–5 — higher indicates greater structural risk exposure. No editorial weighting is applied. Learn more about the GTIAS methodology.