Effective September 16, 2014, Market Vectors Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) became Market Vectors
Morningstar Wide Moat ETF.
We could get exposure to these types of equities through a systematic index like
the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index and Elements Morningstar WideMoat Focus ETF (WMW).
Yet in its annual reconstitution last month, the Market Vectors Wide Moat ETF (MOAT), which is based on
the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index, replaced 9 of its 20 holdings.
Not exact matches
Morningstar awards VF a
wide -
moat rating.
Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a
wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.
To me, that actually indicates business strength of the sort that supports
Morningstar's
Wide Moat rating: Grainger is strong enough to create pricing pressure in the market in a bid to squeeze competitors and gain market share.
Morningstar awards Grainger a
Wide Moat rating.
Based on their assessment of the strength of the company's
moat, the
Morningstar analysts forecast its return on invested capital relative to its cost of capital (the
wider the
moat, the bigger the spread between the return on capital and the cost of capital).
That is why
Morningstar does not award a
Wide moat rating to Apple.
In plain English,
Morningstar makes a list of the 20 cheapest stocks that it classifies as having a «
wide moat.»
Cove Point and the ACP contribute to Dominion being the only utility to receive a «
wide»
moat rating from
Morningstar, which believes those operations will give the company «sustainable competitive advantages.»
To meet
Morningstar's criteria for index membership, companies must have a
Morningstar Economic
Moat rating of narrow or
wide and have a
Morningstar Distance to Default score in the top 50 % of eligible dividend - paying companies.
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Morningstar awards JNJ a
Wide Moat rating, its highest grade.
After acknowledging some of the issues facing Cardinal Health and its competitors,
Morningstar highlighted Cardinal Health's
wide moat as follows:
Dominion also is the only utility that
Morningstar has bestowed with a «
Wide»
moat rating (orange), as explained here:
To me, that actually indicates business strength of the sort that supports
Morningstar's
Wide Moat rating: Grainger is strong enough to create pricing pressure in the market in a bid to squeeze competitors and gain market share.
And
Morningstar awards TROW a
Wide Moat rating, which is its best score.
Here are the
wide moat stocks, based on
Morningstar's rating in the Canadian S&P / TSX dividend Aristocrats:
Coke has a
wide moat, in
Morningstar's estimation, meaning that it is unlikely to be dislodged by a competitor.
This list is a screen of all the
wide moat stocks (based on
Morningstar) that are also part of the Dividend Aristocrats select list.
Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a
wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.
Many investors share their enthusiasm for the sorts of great firms that
Morningstar designates as having «
wide moats.»
The stocks listed here are part of the S&P 500 dividend Aristocrats list and carry a
wide moat as per
Morningstar.
FB is a wonderful
wide -
moat business, but a choppy growth trajectory will likely send shares lower at some point, offering investors an entry point at a much more attractive valuation than they'll get today, says
Morningstar analyst Rick Summer.