moat
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One attribute they look for is confidence in a business’s present value and the cash it will generate over its lifetime, which will provide a moat.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
“These include a lack of a sustainable moat, highly concentrated revenue, intensifying constraints on the data center build-out that could limit their access to compute.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lock up a technology with a patent and clinical trials, and you had a moat lasting several years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I was watching Margo pull herself up out of the moat.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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Every such revolution is accompanied by a bubble, but markets mistakenly view those leaders as staying dominant through protective moats, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
For B2B marketers, the takeaway is clear: Defensive moats matter more than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The transformation is threatening the economic moats of advanced-manufacturing economies such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Arya expects that Nvidia’s earnings report in August will show investors that the company still has “its moats in products, pricing and supply chain,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
On top of the ice field stood a legion camp—ramparts, moats, towers, barracks, just like Camp Jupiter except three times as large.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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