The castle is surrounded by
the moats and ponds that once made up its water supply system.
Examples he cited include: high switching costs, strong brands, patent protection, etc. (See To Keep Your Customers Build More
Moats.)
If you've already achieved some financial milestones by your 30s and earn a strong income, you may be tempted to build
a moat around your savings and pare down your risk.
The longer the relationship lasts, the more of
a moat you create around yourself,» Foley says.
«We see investors focused on the widening
moat that NFLX is creating with its business (faster subscriber growth on the back of original content push).»
LiveJournal was an early - mover in the blog category, built a small but indefensible
moat based on users, and was eventually overtaken by better - funded, better - architected rivals like Blogger and WordPress.
The best way to protect against that, Woodman says, is to build
a moat around the company in the form of its content ecosystem.
Dan Ciporin, Canann Partners: «Scale is increasingly a competitive
moat, with established players like LendingClub and SoFi now competing much more with bank offerings like Marcus from Goldman Sachs.»
«The companies that are going to be able to withstand this are the ones that have a sort of
moat around their businesses,» he said.
«It's like when Warren Buffett talks about investing in companies with a large
moat — that's what Latin American investors are trying to do,» says Colmenares.
Investing time and resources early is a great way to build a competitive
moat around product and brand.
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In fact, by investing in its own fleet, Uber will have done exactly the thing Justin Fox knocks it for not doing now: spending its billions on something that represents a meaningful defensive
moat to would - be competitors.
Meanwhile, Frontier's interest in maintaining monopolistic
moats became much larger following its troubled takeover of former Verizon fiber - optic networks in California, Florida, and Texas earlier this year.
In fact, according to the most recent
Moat report, only 37 percent of mobile ads are in view and only 28 percent are fully on screen for more than one second.
Additionally, you'll want to investigate partnerships with vendors such as
Moat and IAS, which are tracking mobile viewability to ensure that your mobile ad campaign can be seen.
Large items make online ordering and delivery challenging, and have provided
a moat against e-commerce giant Amazon and others.
«Investments in mobile search, mobile cloud, location - based services and consumer produces like mobile games are helping to build
a moat around Baidu's business.»
«I was more of an ideas guy, really,» he continued, and said that the border wall was his idea — but he wanted it to be a «
moat filled with spiky blow fish» paid for by Alec Baldwin.
«I can't see Facebook supplanting Match any time soon too big
a moat.»
Precision's highly specialized parts for airplane makers gives the company a «business
moat,» a protection from competitors, that Buffett has said he looks for.
CNBC's «Secret Lives of the Super Rich» goes inside the 90210 «castle» that's surrounded by
a moat and has the biggest mattress we've ever seen.
«As the battle over consumer spending between Amazon and Walmart intensifies, we are concerned Amazon's Prime membership program is fortifying an impenetrable
moat around its customers,» the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote.»
Learn the number of wide
moat stocks and Gold rated funds that are currently in your portfolio.
Warren Buffett buys investments with «economic
moats» in order to earn safer, higher returns.
Dividend Growth Investing is an income strategy of investing in companies that have a barrier to entry (large
moat) and consistent history of increasing dividends by a rate higher than inflation.
Providence's investment comes on the heels of Oracle's acquisition of
Moat, a digital measurement company known for its role as an independent third party hired to measure ads across platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.
I do believe that the market under - appreciates certain companies that have really strong
moats because often times this durability allows for the company's runway to last longer than many expect.
The nature of their network effects and the incredible value they provide to their users and their advertising customers gives me confidence that
their moats will continue to widen.
Learn about the sources and sustainability of Google's competitive advantage by examining Warren Buffett's concept of an economic
moat.
Brookfield also has such a huge economic
moat — their expertise in the management of real assets has led to a substantial competitive advantage.
I am a value investor that lives frugally and maximizes monthly investments into dividend growth investments with economic
moats, strong brands and increasing earnings.
Sometimes you will hear a knucklehead say
moats don't matter since all that matters is delivering better customer value via execution of a plan.
However, its deepest
moat is surely its extensive fulfillment center network, which it's long been pouring money into building out.
I think no one should ever bet against Apple, as they have this crazy
moat, and everyone who has ever used Apple products is hooked.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable
moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.»
Overall, Larsen continues to believe that legacy distributors have a defendable
moat and that Amazon will likely only capture modest share over the next few years.
The existence of
a moat is critical to reducing competition risk.
He is in search of the protective «
moat» that shelters Buffett's creation from competitors seeking to increase their market shares.
Costco has supply side scale economies of scale that help create
its moat, but it is not even the only warehouse club in terms of market share.
Can great management or better business execution create
a moat?
I thought I'd share that letter here: Saber Capital Investor Note: «Most Important
Moat» (6/13/2017) In the note, I outline why I think that when you're evaluating the durability of a company's
moat, it's critically important to consider the value of a company's product from the customer's perspective.
Netflix has no comparable
moat to Facebook or Google.
In reality, heavily spending on digital content is likely no more of a competitive
moat than that possessed by any linear business that's dependent on investing in fast - depreciating assets.
In this suggestion, it's again often compared to the competitive
moats enjoyed by fellow FANG companies Facebook and Google.
The company's drop in margins made us slash our estimates for the year and diminish our overall thesis, as it was one of the first signs that the company's niche economic
moat is penetrable.
If Netflix's spending on content today creates a lasting
moat against competitors, its investment in original content is money well spent.