Sentences with phrase «other moat»

Secondly, I see you tend to remove R&D, Advertising, and other moat building accounting expenses which Buffett does too and it makes sense.

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

Other moats: VFC, TMO, BDX, RCI, TU, PSO, RUK, WM, ETN

Not exact matches

Large items make online ordering and delivery challenging, and have provided a moat against e-commerce giant Amazon and others.

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.

Other factors can create moats and sometime it is the combination of factors that produces the barrier to entry.

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

- An economic moat is the advantage one business has over others in its field.

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.

When the doughnuts are perfectly puffed up, they're gently dumped into a moat of hot vegetable shortening where they float on one side until golden brown, and then the machine flips them over to cook the other side.

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.

Why would these school superintendents lower the drawbridge while others are digging deeper moats to keep charters out?

Referenced works of Isabel Beck, Gay Su Pinnell, Irene Fountas, Timothy Shanahan, P. David Pearson, Louisa Moats, Michael Pressley, James Flood, Marilyn Adams, among others

On the other hand, a large number of businesses have tiny moats that are easily crossed by competitors.

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.

Firms can also have smaller moats based on branding, a long history of customer satisfaction, a good distribution network, or some other factor.

If on the other hand, you focus on finding «wide - moat» companies and holding them over the long - term this book will help you value companies better.

Other parts of energy value chain such as chemicals, lubes & retail etc are relatively straight forward and have characteristics of moats.

Morningstar examines historical financial performance; competitive advantages compared to the competition; intangible assets such as patents and brands; cost advantages; attributes that give a company pricing power; and efficiencies of scale, among others, in determining its moat ratings.

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

Warren Buffett on the other hand pays a lot of attention to the intangibles such as quality of the management, market position of the company, moat, etc..

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

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.

These are companies with long track records of earnings per share growth well over 10 % annually, steady management, entrenched moats and other competitive advantages, moderate or conservatively financed balance sheets, and current execution that suggests more wealth will be minted for shareholders in the year ahead.

A chapter on hedging against inflation focuses on finding stocks with «moats» that can raise prices as inflation starts to roar, and the final chapter looks at commodities, gold and other real assets.

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.

Individually and collectively, these create what Buffett calls a «moat» — something that gives the company a clear advantage over others and protects it against incursions from the competition.

The other wide moat factor is the name brand, which is highly important to industry consumers, who have historically proven to be less price sensitive and very brand loyal.

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.

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.

The other kind of value investor is the Warren Buffett / wide moat / qualitative value investor.

On the other hand, a skilled management team can take actions which can improve a company's competitive position, widening the moat.

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

Aeropostale does not do anything proprietary; in other words, they do not have a moat.

For this reason, in my book on Charlie Munger I put the material on moats in an appendix since I feared readers would bog down and not focus on the more important points such as making investment and other decisions in life.

That said, I think books that help frame this question and focus the analysis are: «Competition Demystified» (Greenwald), «The Little Book that Builds Wealth» (Dorsey), and «Hidden Champions» (Simon), help show what makes a business superior to others (the moat) and how wide / long a competitive advantage may be.

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

I don't see moats where others do.

Economic Moat, a term coined by Warren Buffett, means a company's competitive advantage over other companies in the same industry, that protects its long - term profits.

The quality factor is often durable over the long - term and its hallmarks include dividend - paying companies, firms with sound balance sheets and / or impressive cash flow generation, and wide - moat companies, among other traits.

+ An economic moat is a perceived competitive advantage that acts as a barrier to entry for other companies in the same industry.

Other investors thought at an inopportune time that Kodak had a moat, or Blackberry or Nortel.

Once you've set up your crate and moat, you can then follow all the same advice for introducing your cats to your other pets.

Jeff Moat, President of Partners for Mental Health, says, «With nearly half of Canadians stating that their work and place of work is the most stressful part of the day, and another 16 % saying that their workplace is frequently the source of feelings of depressions, anxiety and other mental illness, it is clear that initiatives like Not Myself Today are vital in addressing the overall health of Canadians.»

What's more, the bank says that the social network's changes in response to the scandal so far — like shutting down use of third - party data for ad targeting — will help strengthen its moat in the style of other tech giants.

In other words, the walls and moat should be your foundation as it pertains to protecting you / your assets.

The other amazing thing was that the property was surrounded by a moat.