Sentences with phrase «moat as»

The stocks listed here are part of the S&P 500 dividend Aristocrats list and carry a wide moat as per Morningstar.

Some value investors speak of a soft moat as the competitive advantage that a company derives from a unique corporate culture.

Every company and potential investment opportunity is assigned an economic moat as well as a proprietary debt rating.

Munger has not explained his theories on what causes a moat as comprehensively as Warren Buffett, but he has made some comments that point people in the right direction.

Despite the unquestionable significance of this longevity dimension, most investors give it scant attention, while focussed only on identifying moat as of now.

After acknowledging some of the issues facing Cardinal Health and its competitors, Morningstar highlighted Cardinal Health's wide moat as follows:

As oil prices fell, they downgraded the rating first to Narrow and then final to No Moat as a new analyst picked up coverage.

«The 10,000 members who joined the party in the immediate aftermath of election disaster are the type of people who donate money to save mangy bears tethered to stakes in castle moats as a tourist attraction.

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

Not exact matches

Maria Moats is the U.S. Assurance Leader of PwC, where she serves as a member of the U.S. Leadership Team and the Global Assurance Executive Leadership Team.

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.

«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.»

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 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 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.

One set of questions from the YouTube host, Gali Russell, was about Tesla's supercharger network and whether it should be available to other automakers, as Musk has suggested, or kept as a strategic moat.

One set of questions from the YouTube host, Gali Russell, was about Tesla's supercharger network and whether it should be available to other automakers — as Musk has suggested — or kept as a strategic moat.

In this particular example, however, the moaty firm's total economic value creation (area of blue curve), in absolute and in present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculated.

If you deliver the same product or service as your competitor you by definition don't have a moat.

The five primary factors which can help create a moat, either alone or in combination with other factors, are as follows:

Connor has shared some thoughts with BHI readers in the past, including a post on Reinvestment Moats, Capital Light Compounders, as well as an investment idea and annual letter that exemplify some of these concepts.

A Reinvestment Moat company has the strong competitive advantages around their core business as seen in the Legacy Moats, but their market is not yet saturated and the company has the ability to reinvest the cash they generate into growing.

Many of the attendees were actually making trades on their Blackberry's as their guru spoke in tongues of sub prime lenders with supposed «moats» (durable competitive advantages) Finally, after 2 1/2 hours Chew lost his mind and after savagiung the false profit, began eating his young wannabe's.

Pat developed Morningstar's economic moat ratings, as well as the methodology behind Morningstar's framework for analyzing competitive advantage.

People will convince themselves that patents are a moat for some tech company, but they often don't have as consistently good returns on capital as a restaurant.

As it becomes more efficient in developing its technology, its global moat should grow.

As if that weren't enough, the dishes were served on little boats that floated down a table «moat» to guests including Liv Tyler, Naomi Watts, Kristen Wiig, Stephanie Seymour, Jason Sudeikis and Anna Wintour.

He buys the dogs as a fence, as a moat, as a line drawn between him and the incursions of the world... and yet his dogs, because they are dogs, can do nothing but live up to their end of the original contract: They preserve his innocence, if only because they are innocent, they are pure, and as long as they are around, the boy — now hero, now icon, now goat, now bum — must remain a boy, close to his boyhood heart.

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.

At first I thought the gorilla had been meticulously potty trained to poop into the moat, making the collection easier for the zookeepers in training who enter the zoo hierarchy on the bottom rung as poop - picker - uppers.

And if you insist on characterising all 50,000 protesters (some of whom were academics) as rioting students then why not use the same reductionist metonymy to characterise all cats as grey or all Conservatives as the owners of moats and duck houses?

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative cabinet minister who played a notable part in the MPs» expenses scandal after it was alleged that he had claimed money for the clearing of the moat at his country house in Lincolnshire, has emerged as a frontrunner to win a hereditary place in the House of Lords.

Never mind the comedy moat, the real story about Douglas Hogg is he listed his 13th C estate as a second home http://t.co/kZZWmiULeM

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has already begun an inquest into the death of Moat, and in particular the use of tasers against the man, as he sat with a gun pressed to his head in the rain.

MacShane had previously written an article for The Guardian in which he played down the expenses scandal, writing, «There will come a moment when moats and manure, bath plugs and tampons will be seen as a wonderful moment of British fiddling, but more on a Dad's Army scale than the real corruption of politics.»

When they took a sediment core from a lake originally created as part of a moat in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, they found centuries» worth of dirt, refuse and pollution particles, with the earliest mud layer dating to 1649.

They were subsequently amended so that the casinos could be permanent land based structures as long as they had a moat with Missouri River water surrounding them.

Vince Vaughn is wonderful as Russell Nash, an attorney whose wife Kate (Monica Potter) has abandoned him and their five - year - old son Calvin (an adorable Bobby Moat).

The dragon has unexpected depths of emotion, the damsel, voiced as a slacker by Cameron Diaz is a feisty little ninja who» s read one too many romance novel, and the moat, well it is filled with lava, but that» s not important.

«However, conditions were harsh as Osaka Castle lost its secondary and tertiary enclosures, as well as its inner and outer moats, leaving just the main enclosure for the defeated.

Dr. Moats received her doctorate in reading and human development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has served as an adjunct professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School.

Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D., is a nationally recognized authority on literacy education and is widely acclaimed as a researcher, speaker, consultant, and trainer.

Dr. Louisa Moats is a nationally recognized authority on literacy education and is widely acclaimed as a researcher, speaker, consultant, and trainer.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/ Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able To Do Author: Louisa Moats The American Federation of Teachers commissioned this valuable resource which includes issues such as Preventing Reading Failure: A Top Priority for Education, Taking Stock of Teacher Preparation in Reading, Toward a Curriculum for Teacher Preparation, Where we need to go.

Louisa Moats, Ed.D., is President of Moats Associates Consulting, Inc. and has served as a National Board member and Vice President of IDA.

Some people view corporate publishing as a fortress, surrounded by gatekeepers, moats and even a crocodile or two.

These previously served as a moat that protected the cartel of legacy publishing from competition.

But by the time they reached the Vatican palace, Pope Clement VII had lifted up his skirts (to find, no doubt, a brace of cardinals squeezed beneath his fat stomach) and, along with a dozen sacks hastily stuffed with jewels and holy relics, run as if he had the Devil on his heels to the Castel Sant «Angelo, the drawbridge rising up after him with the invaders in sight and a dozen priests and courtiers still hanging from its chains, until they had to shake them off and watch them drown in the moat below.

As more houses were built, the walls were extended and a deep moat was dug so that all could feel safe.