Sentences with phrase «big moat»

My summary of what he is trying to do can be summarized in one sentence: «A business with a big moat, financed by cheap insurance float, will lead to book value growth.»

In the long run the risk for Berky is that it gets a manger that does not get my summary, «A business with a big moat, financed by cheap insurance float, will lead to book value growth.»

This company has a big moat; it's part of the life reinsurance oligopoly.

@nelson3748 Railroads r scarce; impossible to replicate; has a big moat w / pricing power; trucking has no moat; scale is needed Mar 14, 2013

It builds a big moat around ESPN in terms of competition.

«I can't see Facebook supplanting Match any time soon too big a moat.»

And the rhetoric is gonna be mighty loud, Jeremy, and dig a bigger moat all around the traditional church and its businesses!

For example, some big moats are more brittle than others.

Not exact matches

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.

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Rich Barton is very similar in his ability to know whether (1) the customer's problem is real and significant enough that they will pay for the solution, the market is big, and that there is a business model with a potential moat.

But let's face it, by the time the unheralded Bowen took her celebratory plunge into the moat by the 18th green on Sunday, the LPGA's biggest names had already muddied the waters.

This is one of the biggest reasons Warren Buffett doesn't invest in tech companies — it's impossible to even think about what the future economic moat of these companies will be.

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).

And looking to add to AAPL, WMT, I want to make my moat so big, Yosemite Sam will fall off the dragon into it.

About bambooinnovator KB Kee is the Managing Editor of the Moat Report Asia (www.moatreport.com), a research service focused exclusively on highlighting undervalued wide - moat businesses in Asia; subscribers from North America, Europe, the Oceania and Asia include professional value investors with over $ 20 billion in asset under management in equities, some of the world's biggest secretive global hedge fund giants, and savvy private individual investors who are lifelong learners in the art of value investMoat Report Asia (www.moatreport.com), a research service focused exclusively on highlighting undervalued wide - moat businesses in Asia; subscribers from North America, Europe, the Oceania and Asia include professional value investors with over $ 20 billion in asset under management in equities, some of the world's biggest secretive global hedge fund giants, and savvy private individual investors who are lifelong learners in the art of value investmoat businesses in Asia; subscribers from North America, Europe, the Oceania and Asia include professional value investors with over $ 20 billion in asset under management in equities, some of the world's biggest secretive global hedge fund giants, and savvy private individual investors who are lifelong learners in the art of value investing.

Finally, remember that the big danger in a brand - based economic moat is that if the brand loses its appeal, the company will no longer be able to charge a premium price.

The margin of safety and the moat are two of the biggest concepts for value - seeking investors.

For Berkshire, the regulation - driven moat that Moody's had in the bond rating business was a big attraction.

In other words, moats can be classified along a spectrum from strong to weak, valuable to non valuable and from big to small.