If you aren't already familiar with my blog, Fat Pitch Financials, it is a value investing blog with a focus on
wide moat companies selling at substantial discounts and Benjamin Graham style workouts.
If you aren't already familiar with my blog, Fat Pitch Financials, it is a value investing blog with a focus on
wide moat companies selling at substantial discounts and special situations.
I'm all about profit, minimal debt, and
wide moat companies.
Phase 2 grades from Phase 1 to Phase 3, with
wide moat companies having a transition period of 20 years, narrow moat companies 15 years, and «no moat» companies a lesser amount.
I found the price of $ 24.50 per share for
this wide moat company to be very attractive.
However, given that interest rates were very low for the past few years, loading up on debt to grow
a wide moat company was probably a smart move.
Do you see ALB as
a wide moat company?
Gannon On Investing recently held a contest to find
the widest moat company.
Not exact matches
• Well - run, high quality
company with strong brands and
wide moat.
Finally, Warren is very fond of
companies that have
wide «
moats,» i.e. competitive advantages that are difficult to replicate.
Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a
wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a
company's competitive strengths.
• High quality
company with a solid business model,
wide moat, and excellent credit rating.
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).
In our writing here we've made clear the the single most important element of our investment approach is focusing on
companies that have a
wide competitive
moat.
High margins are often a hallmark of a
company with a
wide moat (sustainable competitive advantages).
Again, the objective here is to capture mathematically what makes intuitive sense: That
companies with
wide competitive
moats, strong brands and strong balance sheets make superior long - term investments.
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.
• High quality
company with
wide moat and strong credit rating.
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.
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.
Based on their assessment of the strength of the
company's
moat, the Morningstar analysts forecast its return on invested capital relative to its cost of capital (the
wider the
moat, the bigger the spread between the return on capital and the cost of capital).
For an ETF dedicated to
companies with sustainable competitive advantages — or «
wide moats» to borrow a term from Warren Buffett — you might expect relatively low turnover.
Considering KMI's
wide moat, commitment to their dividend, the current dividend yield and the
company's growth prospects, I believe KMI is a great addition to my portfolio at this time.
Cove Point and the ACP contribute to Dominion being the only utility to receive a «
wide»
moat rating from Morningstar, which believes those operations will give the
company «sustainable competitive advantages.»
In order to earn a narrow or
wide moat rating, a
company must have «the prospect of earning above average returns on capital, and some competitive edge that prevents these returns from quickly eroding.»
To meet Morningstar's criteria for index membership,
companies must have a Morningstar Economic
Moat rating of narrow or
wide and have a Morningstar Distance to Default score in the top 50 % of eligible dividend - paying
companies.
A high - quality stock is a
company with a
wide and growing economic
moat.
• High quality
company with
wide moat.
• Well - run, high quality
company with strong brands and
wide moat.
• High quality
company with a solid business model,
wide moat, and excellent credit rating.
The
company's
wide moat on top of a growing industry makes it a relative value.
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.
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.
I stood at the sidelines until 2009 and since then I invest according to following «system»: (1) saving at least 50 % of my income to increase my stash, (2) investing in Index Funds and shares of high quality
companies with a
wide economic
moat according to my watchlist, (3) reinvest the dividends and (4) repeat over the years.
Most of these
companies are solid dividend growers with
wide economic
moats.
You need to find solid
companies that have a proven track record of performance, those with a «
wide moat» and a history of dividend payments and growth.
Most notably, during periods of excess fear even
companies with rock - solid balance sheets and
wide economic
moats have their share prices tarnished.
Surely, only
wide -
moat companies with sustainable competitive advantages and cash flows can manage to hit such a milestone, making them great investment options.
Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a
wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a
company's competitive strengths.
Choose
companies with
wide moats that enable them to achieve and sustain high returns on capital.
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.
Warren Buffett, his most known follower, realized over time that it often gives better results to invest in fairly valued stocks with a
wide moat vs investing in ordinary
companies selling at a great discount.
Despite the expectation of more volatility, we continue to focus on
wide moat, large - capitalization
companies that are trading at reasonable valuations, in our view.
As far as I know, Warren Buffett coined the expression «
wide moat» to describe the large competitive advantage a
company...
Dividend Growth Investing falls closer to GARP investing than deep value investing, because dividend growth investing relies on selecting
companies with
wide moats, strong balance sheets, the ability to grow dividends through recessions, and a product or service that you can see existing and indeed flourishing 10 or 20 years from now.