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Economic Moats: What They Are and How to Spot Them
What an economic moat is, the types of durable competitive advantage, and how to tell a wide moat from a narrow one: the edge that protects long-term returns.
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What Is a Moat Rating and How Does It Work?A moat rating is an analyst's grade of how durable a company's competitive advantage is, most commonly expressed as wide, narrow or no moat. It answers a single question: how long can this business keep earning returns above its cost of capital before competitEconomic Moats · 4 min readWide Moat vs Narrow Moat: What the Difference Really MeansThe difference between a wide moat and a narrow moat is durability: a wide moat is a competitive advantage a company is expected to defend for roughly 20 years or more, while a narrow moat is a genuine but shorter-lived edge, expected to hold for about 10. BotEconomic Moats · 5 min readMoat ETFs: What They Are and How They Compare to Picking StocksA moat ETF is an exchange-traded fund that holds a basket of companies judged to have durable competitive advantages, or economic moats, so an investor can own the whole theme in one purchase. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a fund that trades on a stock exchEconomic Moats · 5 min readWhat Is an Economic Moat?An economic moat is a durable competitive advantage that lets a company defend its profits from competitors for years. The name comes from the water-filled moat around a medieval castle: the wider the moat, the harder the castle is to attack. A company with a Economic Moats · 8 min readWide-Moat Stocks: What They Are and How to Find ThemA wide-moat stock is a company with a durable competitive advantage, an "economic moat," that protects its profits from rivals for many years, often 20 years or more. The word "wide" is about durability: how long the advantage is expected to last, not how stroEconomic Moats · 5 min read