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What Is A Moat?
By T.U.B Investing  •  May 20, 2018
Recently for my Big Idea 1 and Big Idea 3, I have been talking about discovering "Moats" of the companies. But I am wonder if those information that I provided are really "moats"of a company? Or am I using this term too loosely? As per Investopedia (do read this page for a much deeper understanding), an economic moat is a competitive advantage that one company has over other companies in the same industry; this term was coined by Warren Buffett, a renowned investor and executive at Berkshire Hathaway. The wider the moat, the larger and more sustainable the competitive advantage of a firm. By having a well-known brand name, pricing power and a large portion of market demand, a company with a wide moat possesses characteristics that act as barriers against other companies. The website further explains that economic moat describes a company's competitive advantage derived as ......
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By T.U.B Investing
I am the founder of T.U.B Investing Blog and the Co-founder of Fundamental Scorecard. I am a full-time employee who started investing in 2009/10 during my university days. Like many of us, I had my fair share of mistakes at the start of my investing journey. The worst time was when I used all my saving to bet on warrants, losing half of it ...
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