Morningstar awards Wal - Mart
a wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.
And Morningstar awards TROW
a Wide Moat rating, which is its best score.
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 JNJ
a Wide Moat rating, its highest grade.
In order to earn a narrow or
wide moat rating, a company must have «the prospect of earning above average returns on capital, and some competitive edge that prevents these returns from quickly eroding.»
Just 266 stocks have
a Wide moat rating, and another 949 have Narrow moats.
That is why Morningstar does not award
a Wide moat rating to Apple.
Morningstar awards Grainger
a Wide Moat rating.
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 Wal - Mart
a wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.
Not exact matches
Learn the number of
wide moat stocks and Gold
rated funds that are currently in your portfolio.
Morningstar awards VF a
wide -
moat rating.
• High quality company with a solid business model,
wide moat, and excellent credit
rating.
But they assign the
Wide rating to about 67 % of the stocks in our portfolio and give a Narrow
moat rating to another 28 % (these percentages exclude the few companies in our portfolio that they do not cover).
But if interest
rates increase, it'll be a
wide moat stock on a trajectory to return an excellent 10 % a year.
An Excellent Speculation on Higher Interest
Rates If interest rates never rise, this wide - moat stock will be on a trajectory to return a modest 7 % a
Rates If interest
rates never rise, this wide - moat stock will be on a trajectory to return a modest 7 % a
rates never rise, this
wide -
moat stock will be on a trajectory to return a modest 7 % a year.
• High quality company with
wide moat and strong credit
rating.
However, given that interest
rates were very low for the past few years, loading up on debt to grow a
wide moat company was probably a smart move.
They have 3
moat ratings: None, Narrow, and
Wide.
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.
Dominion also is the only utility that Morningstar has bestowed with a «
Wide»
moat rating (orange), as explained here:
• High quality company with a solid business model,
wide moat, and excellent credit
rating.
But if interest
rates increase, it'll be a
wide moat stock on a trajectory to return an excellent 10 % a year.
If interest
rates never rise, this
wide -
moat stock will be on a trajectory to return a modest 7 % a year.
Here are the
wide moat stocks, based on Morningstar's
rating in the Canadian S&P / TSX dividend Aristocrats: