Sentences with phrase «with moat»

Now we're not suggesting for a moment that # 3 million isn't a huge sum of money, but when you consider that it could buy you a real - life bona fide castle with a moat — a MOAT we hear you cry!

Although the transaction failed to eclipse last year's high point for a Los Angeles home sale price — that was the $ 88.3 million recorded for the Westside Fleur de Lys estate — the deal surpassed the $ 55 million that Ellen DeGeneres received for the Midcentury Modern Brody House and the $ 40 million that Dr. Dre dropped on a Brentwood estate with a moat.

They won't tell you their goals or timeline or whether they'd prefer a ranch, a two - story, or a castle with a moat around it.

From now on, think of your marriage as a castle with a moat around it (your boundary) and a drawbridge.

Associated with Bacalar is a very large beautiful Spanish fort, complete with a moat, that was heavily armed with canon in the past, and sits strategically on the western side of the lake [adjacent to Bacalar's lake is a large blue hole (sink) analogous to the famous blue hole in Lighthouse Reef, Belize].

Spend a day at leisure in the Châteaux Country with the opportunity to take an optional excursion to visit the Château of Chenonceau, a 16th - century, fairytale castle with a moat, drawbridge, and towers.

Dividend Tree presents Dividend Investing and Businesses with Moat posted at Dividend Tree, saying, «In general, companies with moats in their business are very good dividend growth providers.

Buying a business with a moat is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for achieving financial success in a business.

This isn't a super cheap value stock by any means, but as a very obvious leader in the space, with a moat in the form of unmatched distribution, long - term shareholders are unlikely to frown at the company's performance over the long haul.

Buying shares in a business with a moat at a price that is beaten down is the value investor's mantra.

I think that the only retailer with a moat is Amazon.

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

By June, the archaeologists realized they'd stumbled on their buried treasure: the makings of a classic European fort, complete with a moat.

That field looks awful with the moat around it, and this game just feels more CONCACAF than normal.

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

Pharmaceutical companies are a good example of companies with moats, because they often control patents on the drugs they bring to market, giving them exclusive rights to sell drugs that, at times, anyone could make.

Not exact matches

«We see investors focused on the widening moat that NFLX is creating with its business (faster subscriber growth on the back of original content push).»

Dan Ciporin, Canann Partners: «Scale is increasingly a competitive moat, with established players like LendingClub and SoFi now competing much more with bank offerings like Marcus from Goldman Sachs.»

«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.

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.

«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.

Warren Buffett buys investments with «economic moats» in order to earn safer, higher returns.

I am a value investor that lives frugally and maximizes monthly investments into dividend growth investments with economic moats, strong brands and increasing earnings.

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

The problem with using solely an economic moat framework to assess businesses becomes readily apparent in the above example.

• Well - run, high quality company with strong brands and wide moat.

After all, this is business with a wide economic moat in a «winner take all» industry.

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.

Musk arguably has a narrow moat, with venerable global competitors breathing down Tesla's neck across the broadening business lines of Tesla Inc..

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

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• Good quality company with narrow moat.

With a market cap above $ 870 billion and worldwide brand recognition, Apple has a seemingly insurmountable moat.

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.

I believe that the companies listed below represent most of the dominant firms on the planet, with business models and economic moats that lend themselves favorably to buy - and - hold investing.

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.

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.

• High quality company with a solid business model, wide moat, and excellent credit rating.

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In the case of American Water Works, it has a moat more than a mile wide filled with angry mutant sharks.

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.

«It has been the tragedy of the Church that men blew up the portcullis of the fortress and filled in the moat with a happy zest, before they had any new strategy or new formulation of thought through which to focus anew and to develop anew the riches of the Faith.

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.

It said the company has a «strong position in the Asia - Pacific beverages market with the powerful Coca - Cola brand providing it with a relatively stable earnings stream, narrow economic moat and medium uncertainty rating».

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....

They're barely ahead of the Giants, who play in a moat of pudding with restrictor bolts jammed into their necks, which is a stark contrast to the homer - friendly Great American Ball Park.

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.

Sheehan hopes to see plans that integrate the Harriman campus with adjacent neighborhoods, breaking down the barrier created by its moat - like ring roads.

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.

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.