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Quality Investing and Compounders: Owning the Best Businesses
What makes a company high quality, what a compounder is, and how to find businesses that reinvest at high returns and compound for years: the core of the MoatMint approach.
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What does a "Good Buy" rating mean?Next to a stock's 0-to-10 score, MoatMint prints a plain-English word: Great, Good, Neutral, Fair or Poor. On a stock's profile page, a short "Is this stock a good buy?" verdict, Yes, Hold or No, does the same job one level up, in a single sentence. Both are aQuality & Compounders · 5 min readHow the MoatMint Rating WorksThe MoatMint rating scores a stock from 0 to 10 across five pillars: quality, value, growth, momentum and financial health. It is a systematic stock rating system: it runs the same rules on every company. That differs from a stock rating written by a single anQuality & Compounders · 5 min readHow to Check a Company's Financial HealthA company's financial health is its ability to meet its obligations and keep operating through a downturn. That is a different question from whether it is currently profitable. To determine the financial health of a company, investors have checked the same hanQuality & Compounders · 8 min readWhat Is a Growth Stock? Growth Investing ExplainedA growth stock is a company whose sales and earnings are increasing faster than the market average. These companies typically reinvest that growth instead of paying it out as dividends. A retailer opening new stores, a software company adding customers, a drugQuality & Compounders · 6 min readWhat Is a Quality Stock? Buffett, Piotroski and the Quality FactorAsk five investors what makes a stock "quality" and you will get five overlapping but different answers. That is not sloppiness. Quality stocks are companies with durable profitability, financial soundness and disciplined use of capital - a family of related iQuality & Compounders · 7 min readHow to Find the Best Stocks to Buy and HoldThe best stocks to buy and hold are not the ones trending this week. They are durable, profitable businesses you can own through good years and bad ones, and keep owning while their earnings compound. No fixed list stays best for long, so the useful skill is kQuality & Compounders · 6 min readWhat Is a Stock Rating?A stock rating condenses a company's fundamentals and its stock's behavior into a single score, so you can compare many companies at a glance.
Ratings come in two kinds: analyst ratings written by people, and quantitative ratings built by a model. MoatMint's iQuality & Compounders · 5 min read