Sentences with phrase «like moat»

What seems like a moat may not really turn out to be one.

Think of it like the moat of a medieval castle.

The ironING lady: «Cost - conscious Margaret Thatcher offered to pay for an ironing board for No 10 after becoming PM... She insisted on using her own household items because she feared political enemies might spark an expenses row over refurbishment work... Her prudent attitude is in contrast to MPs» claims for items like moat cleaning that shocked Britain in the expenses scandal in 2009.»

A company that is said to have an «economic moat» has a durable competitive advantage that protects it from competitors for a long time, much like a moat protects a castle from invaders.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

«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.

«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.»

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.

Add a moat of sake reduction sauce, a few steamed snow pea pods, and you will have re-created a dish that looks and tastes exactly like the number one fish dish at The Factory.

I find myself like I'm fortifying a moat!

Other athletes use their dogs to erect stockades, garrisons, barbed - wire fences, moats in which the dogs themselves serve as the alligators... and some athletes, like Kenny Norman of the Atlanta Hawks, assign their dogs the intricate task of enforcing a policy of exclusion while at the same time setting the standard for admission.

anybody remember my post from Monday morning when I said we have the habit of making the moat average of players look like an hybrid of Messi and Ronaldo?

Sheehan hopes to see plans that integrate the Harriman campus with adjacent neighborhoods, breaking down the barrier created by its moat - like ring roads.

«Most of our cyber defenses are modeled after medieval perimeter security — a firewall is much like a castle moat — and the idea of «keeping the bad guys out»,» says Dr. Bruce M. McMillin, professor of computer science and associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Missouri S&T.

Topping this all off, when the reference has served its purpose, he melts into a moat of lava while giving a thumbs up, like in Terminator 2.

With innovations like the Gap App Challenge and the Music Education Hackathon, Steven Hodas wants to bridge «the moat» between schools and technology entrepreneurs.

In Cesky Krumlov, the castle's painted tower looks like a psychedelic rocket, and bears patrol the rocky moat.

Android is just a moat for Google's search (and a means to extend other moats like Google Maps and Navigation).

To that end, the publishing industry should get behind an open format like ePub and encourage the availability of generic, commodity e-reader devices and not collaborate with someone like Amazon attempting to build a moat with its proprietary Kindle format.

«publishing industry should get behind an open format like ePub and encourage the availability of generic, commodity e-reader devices and not collaborate with someone like Amazon attempting to build a moat with its proprietary Kindle format.»

To paraphrase what Buffett once said, banking is a business with numerous commodity like aspects (they all sell the same basic service), but yet it also is a business where certain banks can develop a moat (a durable advantage over their competition).

Minds work best when they are like castles, when there is a moat, and defenders at the ready to deal with deceivers with arrows and boiling oil.

Buffett likes to use the concept of a moat to describe the quality of a company and its ability to defend itself from other businesses.

Personally, I have found that investments with simple to definable «Moats» (like COKE's brand & worldwide distribution system, Wells Fargo's low cost deposit base, JNJ's three legged platform — branded drug, consumer products, orthopedic / surgical medical devices, Markel / Berkshire's multi-decade culture of cherishing being relied upon, Exxon's rigid adherence to conservative ROIC decison's on capex projects) enable me to not only maintain composure when times are challenging, but also add meaningfully during those times.

Even the great Warren Buffett is trying to do something like this, as I explained in my piece Moat, Float, Growth.

The reason for this statement is, that while Buffett really looks at the fundamentals of a company like Graham discusses in - depth, he also leverages Scuttlebutt and like wide moats like Fischer discusses.

I love investing, but the experience of connecting with new friends, clients, and investors has been — as one wide moat / high return on capital credit card company likes to say — priceless.

On the other hand, a scalable moat business is like the Jaguar.

A scalable commodity - type business without a moat is like the Nano.

With a P / E ratio below its historic norm and a massive moat in telecom, I like the company's chances.

Safal Niveshak: In an Outlook article last year, you wrote about paying up for businesses with sustainable moats, like Nestle.

Included in such funds are the kinds of companies I discussed in an article about stocks Warren Buffett might buy; stocks with wide moats, strong financial positions, and product lines that sell just as well in recession as they do in periods of strong economic growth.A low volatility ETF is an easy way to get exposure to stock - like returns without the crazy up and downs.

But, as a general matter, I do like companies with broad and deep economic moats as you've indicated.

That's why a lot of us tend to invest in companies like PG, JNJ, KMI, PM, MO, T etc because those companies have pretty wide moats / competitive advantages, long histories of dividend raises, shareholder support and solid revenue, cost controls = > positive net income and generally healthy operating cash flow, sometimes high amounts of free cash flow after capital investment.

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).

An economic moat signifies characteristics, like well - known brands, large portion of market demand, etc., that act as barriers against other companies wanting to enter an industry.

When you companies with strong brands, IP and technology which is recognized all over the world things like «moats» and extremely long term investing works there.

While investors like Massimo seek returns in a company's growth potential, the moat provides a beacon of stability.

He likes firms that have wide moats around their businesses which they can use to fend off competitors.

Which implies an intense focus on intangibles like management, moats, business models, research & development, disruptive advantage, costs, margins, peer / sector analysis, scuttlebutt, and all manner of other SWOT, scenario & competitive analyses — yes, all the difficult & squishy stuff that never boils down nicely to a cheap price / book ratio.

A firm like Facebook has a true economic moat.

Moats, like people, come in all shapes and sizes.

However, for a private jet company like Netjets, in spite of being in aviation industry, economies of scale can create a moat.

Thanks for the excellent article and making people think about moat investment... I like picking the moat investors (good mutual funds)...

Alphabet's like some fantastic gilded castle surrounded by an insanely wide & lethal moat... and deep inside the castle you discover they have this incredible unicorn decacorn farm.

This focus may seem at odds with probably half my disclosed holdings now, but it's certainly reflected in a selection of new (& ideally «moat» - like) holdings into which I've been slowly but steadily averaging (but which remain undisclosed for now).

They have a massive «moat» as Buffett likes to call it.

Like the investment legend, he prefers to buy shares in reasonably valued companies with «enduring competitive advantages,» or in the words of Mr. Buffett, «moats.»

«Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal - Mart.