Sentences with phrase «moats do»

After all, moats don't dry up overnight.

Sometimes you will hear a knucklehead say moats don't matter since all that matters is delivering better customer value via execution of a plan.

Medieval moats didn't just protect castles from invaders approaching over land, but also provided defense underground as well.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

You better have a strong a moat, and a knight in that castle that knows what he's doing» Warren Buffett

I've been thinking about what might be the best example to use to try to explain the nature of the work an investor must do to determine whether a business might have a moat protecting an attractive business.

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

If the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance does its job in creating valid brand identity, Ethereum will end up building a formidable moat.

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).

Low / No Moat: Companies that may be perfectly well run and sell good products / services, but which do not exhibit characteristics that prevent other companies from competing away there profits if they start earning attractive returns.

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.

The team lacks confidence now, everyone is jittery and so prone to mistakes... strikers missing chances they will put away with their eyes close, defenders trying too hard not to make mistakes and then end up doing just that, the midfield does it best impression of «who can have moat possessions and do eff all with it», the manager is confused, jaded and out of ideas....

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.

My car would be a moat of sticky disgustingness if I did that.

We were never in danger of getting hit by the new 50p top rate of income tax, and I don't remember MPs» staff getting their moats cleaned on expenses, yet IPSA has nonetheless inflicted an effective pay cut on people who were already on relatively low pay.

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

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.

Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science, What Expert Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do by Louisa Moats, published by the American Federation of Teachers.

Not only does the collapse of agency give Amazon a mandate to increase their moats, and cut millions into the budgets of their global competitors, but it also forces publishers to innovate / experiment with new models in order to try to stem the flow of customers, money and power to Amazon

Morningstar does the calculation company by company, but then aggregates the results by super sector, sector, industry, aize of moat, fair value uncertainty, and equity index.

While you probably don't have a moat to tend, you're likely familiar with the link between risk and returns.

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.

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

The MOAT ETF doesn't have a long trading history (less than two years), but over its short life it has outperformed the S&P 500 by about 10 %.

You don't have to buy every stock in its list — and you certainly don't have to sell a good stock simply because MOAT sold it.

That is why Morningstar does not award a Wide moat rating to Apple.

The companies in this list are well known with strong brands and large moats, but this does not necessarily mean they will strong dividend growth over the next decade.

Do they have a moat that prevents new entrants?

We will review past annual reports, read conference call transcripts, research competitors, watch YouTube videos, and do anything else to better understand a company's economic moat.

A wide moat is just a concept and an opinion, but I do think they have advantages over others.

(US Wide Moat Stocks Cons) I don't have enough capital to have great diversification for a formulaic based investing, so I will be bearing diversification risk.

Do you see ALB as a wide moat company?

A true value investor would never invest in a company that does not have an established competitive moat (e.g. brand name) protecting its core business.

But I don't think it applies to moat investing.

But not - so - easy point to get is that businesses with enduring moats are more attractive as investments than those which don't have enduring moats even at relatively higher prices in relation to assets, recent earnings and cash flows.

• Moat (does the company have a durable competitive advantage?)

Are they doing things that will increase the size of the business's moat in the long run or are they doing the reverse?

There are other ways of dealing with «behavioral issues» in evaluating businesses with a lot of uncertainty but they usually don't end up in moat portfolios so I won't comment on them over here.

Berkshire does not build moats itself and it does not want to supply management.

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.

The only way a retailer can earn a wide economic moat is by doing something that keeps consumers shopping at its stores rather than at competitors».

This is why we care so much about doing The Moat Report Asia for you.

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.

I had done a lot of research before and knew these two businesses had a very wide economic moat.

Does Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Show Statistical Evidence Of An Economic Moat?

Back to the point, NLY does not have a wide economic moat and can suffer tremendously in a heartbeat when things go bad.

Most knowledgeable dividend investors would not touch NLY simply because of how they earn the high yield (purchasing mortgages and other high risk securities)-- which does not have the characteristics of a wide economic moat.