sustainable competitive advantage (moats)

[7/16/13] Morningstar mentions five main ways a company can carve out an economic moat

[4/1/09] Finding a company to hold forever

[1/18/08] four sources of sustaininable competitive advantage

[11/5/07] If a business can sell goods or services for more than it must pay to provide or produce them, it makes a profit. However, pricing power comes in many different shapes and forms, so let's take a look at some key questions to ask.

[2/26/07] Three different types of moats

[7/13/06] Michael Mauboussin talks about competitive advantage

[7/3/06] Morningstar takes a look at the relationship between moats and risk

[5/5/06] How to identify competitive advantages

[4/5/06] If you could ask only one question about a company before deciding whether to invest in it, what would it be?

[12/21/05] brknews reports that shai reports that Buffett and Pat Dorsey wrote about moats.

[11/22/05] it's easy to point to the incredible stocks of the past 15 years, but it's much harder to find the huge performers of the next 15 years. But history can still help, because what all these businesses have in common is that they really aren't run-of-the-mill companies. All of them are fantastic businesses that obliterate weaker competitors.

[11/6/05] Do numbers matter? Yes, but so do the intangibles says Nathan Slaughters. (I'd probably say, though, that the intangibles are largely reflected in the numbers.)

[10/5/05] Can small companies have moats?

[1/9/05] The best investors say they look for businesses with a competitive advantage, referring to them as moats. Here are some of those businesses.