Sentences with phrase «moat for»

This creates an incredible economic moat for Praxair, essentially monopolizing one local market at a time.

I find that the moat for this company is its online business.

So switching cost is an important source of Moat for a business.

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

And since the switching costs are much higher for checking accounts, they provide something of a protective moat for banks.

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.

It is that difference which can create a moat for a business.

What factors might create a moat for an individual restaurant?

NOT SURPRISINGLY, WE generally don't find a ton of great long - term stock ideas in retail and consumer services because most economic moats for the sector are extremely narrow, if they exist at all.

Not exact matches

In fact, by investing in its own fleet, Uber will have done exactly the thing Justin Fox knocks it for not doing now: spending its billions on something that represents a meaningful defensive moat to would - be competitors.

In fact, according to the most recent Moat report, only 37 percent of mobile ads are in view and only 28 percent are fully on screen for more than one second.

«I was more of an ideas guy, really,» he continued, and said that the border wall was his idea — but he wanted it to be a «moat filled with spiky blow fish» paid for by Alec Baldwin.

Precision's highly specialized parts for airplane makers gives the company a «business moat,» a protection from competitors, that Buffett has said he looks for.

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 do believe that the market under - appreciates certain companies that have really strong moats because often times this durability allows for the company's runway to last longer than many expect.

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.

The no - moat firm, in this example, is generating more value for shareholders than the firm with sustainable and durable competitive advantages.

One of the ways to find a company with a strong economic moat is to look for companies that have an almost monopolistic market position and can maintain pricing power while also raising their prices over time.

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• Wide - moat business model based on low prices for customers, very low cost structure, numerous stores, and long - standing low - price reputation.

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.

Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.

The content for Bud Labitan's Moats: Competitive Advantages Of Buffett & Munger Businesses book is now complete.

But we think that Pepsi also has more growth potential than investors give it credit for and is thus a hybrid between a Capital - Light Compounder (see below) and a Legacy Moat - Dividend company.

Our friend Connor Leonard who runs the public market portfolio at Investors Management Corporation has developed an excellent framework for thinking about moat outcomes.

The bullish case for Wayfair Inc (NYSE: W) is based on the belief the online furniture retailer is building a large enough moat and can generate sufficient operating leverage to become highly profitable.

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

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.

But companies with moats can last generations, building and building upon their successes for decades.

One key feature I look for is companies with a strong «moat,» or barrier to entry, that can make it difficult for competitors to threaten their business — for instance, a business that operates in a very specific niche or that possesses a strong competitive position.

But the relationship ended when the track owner began to lobby for slot machines and announced plans to build a gambling «boat in a moat» at his racetrack.

«Except for the moat, Mars is housed in a real castle.»

We'd go out for dinner and wind up in a cigar bar singing karaoke with Jackie Chan or go for moonlit strolls around the moat of the Forbidden City.

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.

Facing the same Fresno State defense that held Kansas State's Darren Sproles to 37 yards, Moats rushed for 236 yards and four touchdowns.

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.

Moat data does not account for Facebook or Twitter ads, so those still could be running.

The campaign for PR has been around for a long time, but it's only since the expenses crisis that it's built up a head of steam again, yet the Tories used a primary to select Boris Johnson for London Mayor and many of the current crop of parliamentary candidates were selected by primaries before anyone knew about duck houses and moats.

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.

One claimed successfully towards the cost of a full - time housekeeper with a salary package of # 14,000 a year, along with a claim including # 2,000 for clearing the moat surrounding his manor house.

David Cameron has hit out at the «wave of public sympathy» for Raoul Moat, the killer whose one - week chase from the police ended in his death this weekend.

Claim: The Telegraph says former cabinet minister Douglas Hogg submitted claims for more than # 2,000 to clear a moat around his Lincolnshire estate and # 14,500 for a housekeeper.

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.

And, referring to Mr Clegg's expenses claim for a cake tin, Mr Cameron said: «Frankly, Nick, we all had problems with this, whether it was moats or politicians claiming on phantom mortgages or kitchens and cake tins.

Hogg, former Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, caused public outrage after claiming # 2,200 from the public purse to clean the moat on his country estate.

A breakout star of the expenses scandal, Hogg was last heard of claiming for services including the cleaning of his moat

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.»

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.»

McMillin credits his former Ph.D. student, Gerry Howser, for coming up with the moat analogy to describe contemporary approaches to cyber defense.