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 that help give it 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
The SEC’s proposed rule would strengthen the company’s strategic moat, Palmer says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Windswept and secluded, Waltha Castle stood on flat lowlands surrounded by a moat and a stately grove of trees.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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Chintalapalli views Amazon and Microsoft as value plays because both companies boast durable economic moats and strong earnings power while trading at reasonable discounts compared with their historical norms and peer group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Now that “good enough”—and sometimes even “pretty amazing”—AI is available to iPhone users and Fortune 500 chief information officers alike, these companies will have to find new moats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
VanEck CEO Jan Van Eck argues the memory-chip stocks don’t have competitive moats, and notes their profit explosion is driven by temporary pricing power over sales volumes.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Each city protected itself with earthen walls, sizable moats, and dead- eye archers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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