moat
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Cross the moat and enter the Tudor courtyard of Anne’s childhood home and we enter not a “whodunit,” but a “who was she?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Each of SPGI’s benchmark franchises is a high-margin, IP licensing business with a formidable competitive moat inside an oligopolistic market structure,” the Pershing Square letter observed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
That makes it economical to do a lot more things in space and widens SpaceX’s already-large competitive moat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
“When you become the biggest stock in the world, there’s a target on your back from people trying to chip away at your moat, and I think that’s part of what we’re seeing.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
They were round, and stuck out from the wall into the moat, so that the archers could shoot in all directions and command every part of the wall.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
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
“Wall Street demands the deployment of raised capital to build structural moats, giving semiconductor and custom silicon suppliers the most transparent, legally insulated 12-month demand backlogs the industry has ever seen,” he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 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
They all have appropriate moats and walls; they have enough artillery; they always store in their public warehouses enough drink, food, and fuel for a year.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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