MOAT

LongNVDA

I honestly wonder why people were afraid that GOOG -which is printing 100billion per quarter, can literally throw billions at individual AI researchers, and has a nobel laureate lead a division that originally invented transformer architecture- would not be able to in the long run crush some autistic snake oil salesman that is Scam altman, who at this point is just buying time with his pyramid scheme deal announcements. They have literally no MOAT, and all their actually capable AI researchers fled long time ago..

Sad_Cheesecake9693

If this is the level of analysis you're applying then I would recommend you don't short anybody. Your takes are too shallow and lack any business rationale. * Increase prices shows price elasticity, aka they can get qway with increasing prices. Secondly, if you increase $1 hotdog to $2, that's a drastic increase but it's a cheap hot dog. Same with streaming services. If Chipotle double their prices, they lose half their customers overnight because the actual value of an one off meal is low. A month's worth of streaming content which equates to hours upon hours of entertainment is still good value. Price increases is about more about the principle than the value of the service. * Advertisement exploding is a net positive. It is a revenue stream to offset the price increases. Think of your favourite show of all time. Would you refuse to watch it if it has ads? No. You'll be pissed but you will watch it. This is how enshittification works. Product is worst but company has a MOAT so we have to suck it up. * Consumer sentiment doesn't translate into economic outcomes. Humans need to be entertained and streaming services are fair value compared to $70 games, $100 nights out and there's only so much TikTok one can consume in the evenings. Feel free to short the streaming services, you might learn something valuable from the experience :)

yourfavouriteguyhere

META’s AI failed. What MOAT do they have to deserve a trillion dollar valuation?

yourfavouriteguyhere

Meta is so overvalued! What MOAT it has?

Sad_Cheesecake9693

Duolingo's growth was never sustainable so the valuation is course correcting. It may not have a technical MOAT but it has extremely high brand recognition. I couldn't name you another language app with a gun to my head. But maybe the brand awareness has peaked so what's next? The company is expanding into Chess so I'm curious if it has the potential to be general education app, like a mainstream version of Brilliant. They know how to engage users and that level of expertise is much harder to replicate. If I was Duolingo, I would be looking to spin off new apps into new verticals. Also your insight into their marketing dollars is something I haven't heard from any of the commentators talking about Duolingo over the last week. Nice one.

VegetableRealistic60

What is Rivian’s MOAT? I struggle to find any.

Sad-Ground-4194

Wait for the weightloss pill to be in production this stock will skyrocket. Big MOAT i tell ya!

Important_Agency07

Exactly the models themselves are not a MOAT nor is there much revenue to be there from licensing. The compute is what’s going to be the commodity. Unless AGI is achieved then the whole current paradigm shifts

AtlasDiningGroup

Korean fried chicken has been supported by the following secular tailwinds: preference shift towards more Asian cuisine in recent decades (think of it as a MOAT of sorts), fatigue from American fried chicken that traditionally entails all purpose flour in the coating, as opposed to Korean fried chicken’s rice flour mix, which introduces a nice crispiness that is otherwise difficult to attain, and finally more private investor dollars chasing growth of not only Korean, but also other styles of fried Asian chicken. Hopefully this color helps! — Jay

banditcleaner2

UNH is a massive company, what the fuck are all these ones you bought? What is their MOAT? Only FI is not a penny stock by market cap, the other two are random no-name companies. Look at the last couple of times FI had a major drop. The best you were getting was a 10% gain but every time over the long run it continued lower. Not good.

Youkiame

All about growth so if they are lying or not, we will find out next week earnings call. If they can maintain near 40% growth,, the valuation is very reasonable comparing to other SaaS with similar growth rate (PLTR). Don’t get me wrong, 25x rev is high which is what I said earlier. You’re paying a premium at this price for their projected growth and MOAT. And comparing to other SaaS like PATH, the TAM is much larger for FIG, customer based is more diverse (dev, non-dev, retail, enterprise) , MOAT is much stronger. They are expanding into other areas, they might have to beat Canvas. But at least they don’t need to face MSFT like PATH needs to face. Give me your DD too, you buying?

sum_dude44

The brand name is the MOAT. OPEN AI is already the Google of LLMs. My kids don't use Claude or Gemini or whatever MSFT LLM is called.

salty0waldo

Pretty sure they have it figured out. Turnaround has been underway for over a year. Haven’t read this earnings yet but typically Criss is really conservative on guidance. It’s sorta hard I imagine to grow the top line once you get to a certain TPV when your product isn’t very sticky or convenient. I’m not a fan of the product or really understand how they have a MOAT, but its fundamentals always interest me. It’s price action is pretty interesting as well.

ShoshiOpti

Here is the real reason, so i sincerely hope you read this because I think you misunderstand the AI argument. It's not that AI generation tools are going to replace Adobe. It's that the software MOAT is going away. Its that AI programming will very soon be able to create cheap or open source competition to replicate the majority of Adobe services which will undercut their profit margin significantly. We still do not have a great open source PDF tool, that will very quickly change with automated AI programming tools. Then after that will be photoshop clones and after effects etc. Thats why Adobe is 9x multiple. Because its no longer a tech company with a tech MOAT, its a branding company relying on brand power and user support to maintain revenue. And as others have stated, users hate Adobe. TLDR, Adobe is not a company id invest in and I think its multiple will likely continue to shrink, we may not see price collapse as inflation is still raging though.

TroubledAcorn

Whats the price target here? Whats their MOAT? I don’t use Cannabis, if Rescheduling does happen what would a Cannabis user be using this for?

et_tu_bro

I don't use ChatGPT. Would be hypocritical of me if I write this long ass post about googles MOAT and then am using chatGPT. I am a gemini person. Also didn't use AI to write it. Its all me. Did use it to proofread it as it is pretty long so wanted to be sure about grammar etc. But you are free to think what you want. Its a free world!

barbpatch

MOAT etf is just soldiering on saving my port when everything is tanking. If you're looking for something not-VOO for safety it's been good to me for over a year.

Peppertheredfox

I’ve been looking at starting a position. Your thoughts on Amazon entering the market? Seems like a huge competitor for a company with no MOAT?

JustSomeGuy272727

Cash is King. After that, some precious metals and Established, large-cap companies with a MOAT

EngineeringSalaryPls

This was a great response. thank you Mark. Ive been doing a deep research whenever I have time into HGRAF. I am prepared to invest around 30-40k USD into this. but right now it's currently at like 2.13 a share. Do you recommend I wait for it to drop to like 1.90 or 1.80 again or just buy now? ALSO, what price target do you think stock will actually surpass? From the sounds of it, it seems like they have a MOAT and it's only a matter of time before they take a significant chunk of the TAM for graphene .

Creepy-Artichoke713

They announced HERS will be bringing in over 1 billion in revenue in 2025 and no MOAT what are we in 1985? They have 90-90% recurring revenue 82% of customers stay beyond 3 months

Capable_Wait09

Because their widget volume doesn’t scale to end-user demand. If Nvidia makes 10x more GPUs it doesn’t mean ASML will sell 10x more lithographers. I’ve been trying to explain this to r/valueinvesting, who thinks that ASML is like the best play out there because MOAT. But DEMAND and VOLUME are more important.

shakefistatsky

An untouchable MOAT would keep me calm

LysergicMerlin

PL is discussing their MOAT and long term strategy at an investor event in New York tomorrow.

sparkysprinkles11

Guys, what’s the difference between ANET, ALAB, AVGO? Just trying to wrap my head around on what the MOAT for each.

valuevestor1

Oracle is a software company with the greatest MOAT on the planet. Their database is absolutely indispensable for most enterprise company and no company takes that decision lightly. Thereby, their gross margin was unbelievable for most of the history. Compare that to Amazon. They operate in the lowest margin, most cutthroat industry (i.e. retail). When Amazon invests money from their retail operations to build AWS, their gross margin improves. When Oracle invests money from their software to invest on Oracle, their gross margin will go down. Not to mention, they woo their customers by under-provisioning compared their competitors like AWS, GCP and Azure. Thereby their gross margin on cloud is expected to be lower than them. The whole AI play by Oracle is a sham. Oracle's gross margin will simply just go down from here, not up. Their stock price is definitely in bubble territory.

Different-Monk5916

A lot of acquisitions now are similar to Pharma acquiring a start up whose drug has just entered clinical trials.  The market has to be there. And then there is a smaller fish with a big enough MOAT available for sale at fair price. That is a good acquisition.  One way to find out serial acquirers is go back to their annual reports, break down into parts and see how much return each acquired business is returning. You sir, have no idea what a serial acquirer is, and no idea what I have been talking about in this comment and my OC. But had the audacity to put together a list of MOATs and well managed companies acquiring well established smaller businesses with MOAT as a sarcastic rebuttal to my OC. 

bam2350

Concur -- no reason that you must be 100% in one ETF. I use VOO, VTI, QQQM, DIA, MOAT, and others. Pick ones that work for you.

Greedyanda

I am still trying to find a single person who can give a coherent explanation for how OpenAI is supposed to become profitable, let alone profitable enough to justify its valuation. Just one of many model providers with absolutely no MOAT. The models aren't superior anymore, they have no own data, no own NPU, TPU, or GPUs, no distribution platform like Android/iOS/Windows, and not even an existing advertising ecosystem to capture the potential migration from subscriptions to ad-based free chat bots.

Select-Specialist-49

So calls on MOAT?

Riskismyapellido

What's the reasoning for said play? Balance sheet or MOAT?

miniaznray

lol not really. Oracle has a terrible record in media business… if you know they exit the media business last year and lost billions on their media companies; MOAT, BLUEKAI, and GRAPESHOT. A company that is so weak in media, running tik tok. Good luck. And if you read, requires you to download and install a new app haha 😆

Ancient_Bobcat_9150

Its momentum does not make it a good investment. You are making a bet based on story. Beside the fact it hasn't a strong MOAT and competes in a competitive field, It lacks profitability (poor ROE, accumulating deficit), it has very concentrated client base. But again, gambling means you are making a bet. Some work, most don't. Paying a mag7 at excessive vuation is also a sort of gamble (although the quality of the business makes it less risky to my eyes)

Objective-Egg-5180

There is MOAT. Figma has largest repo of designs

Objective-Egg-5180

Figma is a strong AI play which will Multiply. People say MOAT. In AI world for some companies there is branding and onboarding and usability as MOAT. Also FIGMA can also have data as unique moat. Imagine Figma having Multi Model LLM trained on all designs . A user can ask just design something and Figma will share the same instead of templates.

shmoopdoop6969

feel like they don't have a MOAT, and the stock just always shits itself

island_dwarfism23

They’re called “Pain”pal for a reason. Even people who use it dislike. Too much competition, outdated business model, not a competitive MOAT, I would stay away. Much better fintech investments out there IMHO.

Commercial_Raisin823

MOAT and TAM…are the big ones for me. And then the rest..

HazelKittenDude

the company's MOAT, or competitive advantage. a strong moat usually translates to consistent revenues. take apple for example, their moat is their strong brand and loyal customer base. nvidia's moat is obviously their AI chips. being the only player in town can help create this moat. amazon's moat is its ecommerce dominance and cloud computing (AWS). just find companies that do one thing well, or have a quasi-monopoly in its industry.

barbpatch

MOAT etf not too bad right now, their largest holding is Estee Lauder which is also just chilling, and their earnings are tomorrow, I have no idea if it will move either way. Estee Lauder is old lady stock but it's Morningstar fair value is like $30 over where it's at right now

TechTuna1200

This. And Value stocks and growth stocks are not mutually exclusive. It's a classic misunderstanding. You can have companies have a high PE and still be cheap/fairly priced, and you can have companies with a low PE and still be expensive. RDDT is a value stock because of its strong fundamentals. It has a strong MOAT and is very addictive. The high level of engagement is a goldmine for advertisers. They are only in their infancy when it comes to their ad targeting and can command a much higher price per DUA in the future, so it is more in line with their peers. And the financials and earnings support that fundamental narrative. +60% growth in every earnings so far, and with 78% in the latest earnings. On top of that, they have 2B in net cash. They can weather a recession if that should come around.

2Hosslovescash

VanEck has entered the chat with their MOAT ETF. No need to research, pull it up and buy what you want within their holdings.

No_Cow_8702

I know all what P/E means bucko. With WMT its the same case Costco in terms of a consumer staple. They’re expensive but they clearly execute better than their retail peers and have a large MOAT. Why order something and wait for it, instead of just driving to the store and picking it up? I think thats the problem that most AMZN bulls on here run into when trying to evaluate this company.

Muted-Extension-8521

SRFM in takeoff mode. I don’t think many of us realize how big the MOAT can be for SurfOS

Spare_Opposite8103

Yeah time will tell. They have all that cash and and between rate cuts and high demand for short term treasuries incoming, they need to divest and reinvest elsewhere or risk it becoming closer to dead capital. Fannie Freddie $FNMA $FMCC would make a lot of sense because they can buy a block from the us govt without leaving their fingerprints on the price action. Biggest MOAT of maybe any business and a fortress balance sheet. Stuff Warren likes. Maybe it will be his last big buy before retirement.

WillNeighbor

comments like this make me that much more bullish on ASTS lmfao. even with the recent run it’s amazing how people still don’t know what kind of technological MOAT it has. quite literally 2 years of separating itself from Starlinks/GSAT/Iridium/whatevers obsolete tech and comments like this still come up. so glad im an early investor in this one

figuring_ItOut12

> Not being able to move Cannabis across state lines is a benefit to the MSO operators that have made very shrewd supply-chain operations. Effectively it creates a MOAT for the top operators in the state. I consider that a significant threat, not a positive.

One-Yard9754

The proponents of S3 don't want repeal of federal law. Not being able to move Cannabis across state lines is a benefit to the MSO operators that have made very shrewd supply-chain operations. Effectively it creates a MOAT for the top operators in the state. Repealing 280e is huge for most companies. And we haven't even scratched the surface of the significant possible benefits that can happen with safe banking or even up-listing. Increases in sales, better financing rates, insitutional ownership, possible better margins if the hemp products are no longer competing with cannabis, etc. etc The list goes on....

Dang3300

Don't entirely disagree but it's a MOAT nonetheless Same can be said for NVDA and CUDA

Dang3300

I think they should just rename the ticker to "MOAT" at this point Because this is the company I'm reminded of when someone says "moat"

Dang3300

ASML has probably the biggest MOAT out of any company The entire semiconductor industry including NVDA and TSM are heavily dependent on their lithography machines

Fog_

I didn’t notice they were for EOY 27. Given how much time he has, these could definitely work out, so I was being a bit extreme. It’s just that he is kind of backing himself into a corner with these where he needs a moon in the short to medium term. A slow gradual grind up will fuck him, sideways or down for a while before going up will fuck him, and holding through a rally and eventually pullback could fuck him if he’s greedy. I’m also not impressed by AMDs prospects. I love Lisa Su, but my sense on the situation is that NVDA has been aggressively and successfully defending their MOAT. On a relative or % basis or whatever, AMD just isn’t matching, keeping up with, or catching up to NVDA. If AMD does start showing concrete evidence of stealing market share - get the fuck in for sure.

greenpride32

If you can't beat the market go with VOO. MOAT doest not beat VOO therefore you do not buy MOAT. 3/4 - I don't like seeing the word "undervalued". Do you want to know which stocks have been "overvalued" (ie traded at premiums) for the past 20+ years? MSFT AAPL GOOGL AMZN Why do stocks such as that trade at premium? Because the more people think those companies will succeed going forward, and bid the prices up. Do I really care if the PE ratio is 40-50 when top and bottom lines are going year in and year out, and projected to continue into the future? Isn't that better "value" than a company bouncing between profitablity and loss and growth and decling growth with 15 PE? There is a reason why it's "cheap". To be blunt with you, you failed at picking individual stocks because you seeked your so called "value". Basically looking for intrinsic means the security is already fairly valued - or in other words it won't grow/increase in value.

Sumif

I commonly use ETFs as a starting point. MOAT is good if you like the Morningstar MOAT rating system. I like looking through small and mid cap value ETFs and then filtering further.

YL-Strong

So o have 90% individual stocks and 10% ETF, just VOO and SCHG. I have to be honest that for 10 years I just about match SP500. Most ppl aren’t good stock pickers or too busy. It’s exciting when they shoot up but I’ve crashed and burned many times. I like SCHG because it’s slightly more aggressive than VOO but less aggressive than tech-focused funds. I looked up MOAT and its return 13% something for 5 or 10 years which is about SP500. SCHG is slightly better than that at low expenses. So I plan to put more in SCHG from now on.

dopamine_101

Yeah, they though announcing tokenization x prediction markets would dilute their weak earnings report. PA reminded them they have no MOAT!

runescapelover12

I think the brand name essentially being a verb meaning "pay me" and its dominant popularity is a valid MOAT to some degree. It still feels odd to me that their primary function is something that can easily be done from a banking app. Do your banks not offer easy and free unlimited instant transfers? In Canada we just ask someone for their email and within every banking app there is an option to send money to the bank account associated with a given email or phone number.

runescapelover12

I am not educated in this space but I feel like Venmo has no MOAT. I'm Canadian and our banks have facilitated electronic transfers for at least 10 years. I might be missing something obvious here, does Venmo do anything that a bank couldn't easily do for consumers? Maybe international Transfers?

kindofblue603

Take a lesson from the stock market in the year 2000 (peak of the internet stock bubble) and what did well from 2000-2003 during the tech crash. Rotation into more value-based stocks in Finance, Energy, Utilities, and Health Care. Check out the holding lists from value-tilted ETFs like MOAT and SPGP to get some ideas. During a rotation to value, you can never go wrong with BRKB-its already on the upswing. If you want less risk than individual stocks then try the sector ETFs of XLF, XLE, XLU, and XLV. Looking at the ratio percent change of XLK(technology sector) vs XLV(health care sector) over a period of time can give you an idea of how much rotation is going on into value. This past week (7/26) the ratio is over 10.

981flacht6

Strongly disagree they are building the better tech. And I probably also disagree that they have the full stack necessary to do what they need to surpass Nvidia. They don't have partnership depth or the customer relationships, the CUDA software, the dev time lockup. All the MOAT Nvidia built. Yes they can take some of the TAM and grow but largely I think there piece of the pie will actually get stunted by internal designs from ARM based designs that Google, Amazon and Microsoft will self design. And there's a huge reason for that - and that comes down to CPUs. Each NVL72 system comes with 36 ARM based Nvidia Grace GPUs that are higher performing and use substantially less power than an Intel Xeon chip. Right now - the market is RED hot. Buy anything you can get. But later, when you gotta be the CFO who has to do all the TCO they're gonna buy NVidia and in-house designs. UALink is still a while out too and the networking backbone really matters to create a single fabric cluster. https://preview.redd.it/41ubvl7jwyef1.png?width=762&format=png&auto=webp&s=898d04bbd514f643bee740faf140be8d8c4944e8

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MOAT

sshinski

Depends on time frame you are looking for. You could invest in one company for 20+ years and murder what the s&p does. It boils down to 80% conviction and 20% smarts/understanding. Conviction comes from understanding what youre buying. Ill give an example of a popular stock right now that has made millionaires. SOFI, it takes a lot to learn about a company and the sector they are in. First you learn about the buisness itself its a bank and load originator and has a tech platform. Do they have a MOAT? next learn how to read their ballance sheet and read the last few quarters and see how they are trending, compare them to their competitors (if they have any direct competitors, in this case it would be HOOD) what advantages does sofi have? How fast are they growing? Are they continuously teasing guidance? How are they affected by interest rates and economic or political policies? This is just a few questions to ask yourself. You become successful when you can spot these things accurately before anyone else. It takes a lot of hard work and time dedication. It might take a few years to be prefect at a specific sector. I invest in healthcare and technology. Healthcare has taken a beating. It is due for a reboundin the next year or 2 i believe. its taken me 2 years of studying the Healthcare sector to be comfortable with comping one company to another. Good luck 👍🏻

Individual-Skin3768

Think about it this way. If you’re a long term investor you sell once you 1: See a better way to allocate your money 2: The valuation of your stock does not make sense anymore 3: The MOAT of the business has changed/shifted priorities Some companies will be forever hold companies (30 years plus) but you’ll have to constantly reassess if it makes sense to hold periodically

Short-Philosophy-105

This position is 20% of my portfolio - haven't added to it due to recent valuations, but it's a fantastic business. The MOAT is real.

PrimaryShock384

Netflix and Youtube are streaming but have completely different products. Comparing them head to head is braindead take. Youtube has a MASSIVE MOAT and content. There is quite literally no competition to it. You can't name a single website that you can go to search mid to long format content. They now have ads on every video + have your google search data to target ads. People watch YT more than Netflix...like a lot. You can pull up to YT and pick a video from your home screen and consume it without thinking too much. Don't like it. Watch another. No decision making or sunk cost fallacy people want to avoid with Netflix. Netflix is for idiots who pay to watch stuff and also have ads on their videos.

RealWICheese

Companies with a MOAT have PEGs of 2 so

Sure_Group7471

The MOAT of Visa and Mastercard is the merchant network not the fee the collect. Also, stablecoin issuers make money by getting interest on the treasuries, as rate falls that income falls as well.

joe4942

What's the MOAT though?

Odd-Bike166

But taking investment means further dilution. From what transpired from xAI, the costs are huge and hard to cover from private investment. If it's an arms' race and you're competing with Google, the company generating the most money on the planet, what are you hoping to get at the end of it? There are 4 companies developing comparable models (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and XAI (to some extent)). I think everyone can see there's no MOAT developing here, which means that even if you manage to get a solid revenue stream developed (which is a big IF) relatively soon, you're still competing on margins with everyone else.

alwayshasbeaen

If the costs is pushed onto the customer, sales are gonna dip. And yes, I'm currently researching stocks in a major drawdown that have the MOAT/capability to rebound in the future.

WillNeighbor

everyone on reddit is too uptight for these sort of posts... yes, it's practically gambling because no one knows shit, but at this point, putting your money in SPY is basically gambling as well with the way our country is being run. **ASTS -** with the recent run up, this will be more towards the 18mo side than the 6mo side, but nevertheless, their potential is still huge. They have a huge technological MOAT, a first mover advantage in a massive TAM, tons of partnerships, government contracts, golden dome hype, etc. Not completely good stuff though, they need to launch all their satellites still, and with that comes so much technical worry. Space launches get delayed all the fucking time, so expect literally nothing to be on time. But if you can weather all of that and get to the part where they start making money, have fun. **RKLB -** again, space. We see what SpaceX valuation looks like. RKLB is a *cool* company with a cool CEO. They have great rockets and once Neutron is up and launching later this year, I expect double the MCap. SpaceX will still be the leader, but RKLB will be a super viable option for MANY. **HOOD -** I don't really have anything to back this up besides my crystal ball. I just feel that they have so much potential and they're just shooting shots everywhere. Their UI is so glorious, that GME shit is in the past and was so overplayed anyway, they were scapegoated (rightfully so). The crypto in the EU is just a start but also a TAM of 400+M users/subscribers. If they can unlock the entire market somehow for those users, it's game over I think. They offer great incentives to sign up, like Roth IRA matching bonuses and stuff. I don't see younger generation, first time investors running to open accounts with Schwab and Vanguard the same way I envision them rushing to open Robinhood accounts. My weakest argument of the 3 tbh. Then probably a whole bunch of AI picks as the bubble (maybe bubble, who knows) increases - BBAI, SOUN, etc

RainieY

Because I don't understand other sectors well and I've had good results in tech. I don't understand the MOAT of shoe makers, fashion brands, agriculture, etc.

Glittering_Water3645

I'm not selling my alphabet shares under 250$/share given the fundamentals known today. It's the only mag7 stock I own for the moment. Fantastic balance sheet, huge net income, excellent return on invested capital, innovative, diversified, a great CEO and a great MOAT in their businesses. All this for a forward PE below 20. A no brainer to hold imo.

NoFennel4525

Do they have a MOAT anymore?

Baabic

Sponsored post. ChatGPT written. This medium Post calls a scale.ai as a revolutionary business model! A revolutionary business model does not see the revenue YoY growth of 14.5%. Given in the post as the growth from 2023 to 2024. Anybody who's worked there or has used them knows that it's a sweatshop. Ad business is still very strong for META. Great MOAT. I think I'm margins around 35 to 37% One can see continued growth in topline. With ATH stock price. Very cautious to stay invested. The Beta is high for META vs Google. As a long time investor, not very convinced about META's long-term strategy and use of stockholders equity. Read this - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/zuckerberg-makes-metas-biggest-bet-on-ai-14-billion-scale-ai-deal.html Zuck has grown frustrated that rivals like OpenAI appear to be further ahead than Meta in underlying AI models and consumer-facing apps, current and former Meta employees said.

cdttedgreqdh

46 P/E, high individual growth with high market growth, huge market share and CUDA as their MOAT. Just because a company has a high market cap does not mean it’s over or undervalued.

DoorCurrent5452

CPRT = biggest MOAT, and piles of money. Not sure why it’s not higher?

AmbitiousSkirt2

Yes and that phrase literally works for individual stocks as well. Research doesn’t take months man you compare a company’s valuation vs its peers and industry. You check the sales growth, you check catalysts, you check how much of a MOAT/ barrier of entry an industry has and the rest of the financials and pull the trigger if you have conviction. “The best traders died or lost their account” I’m sure a shit ton of them have individual stocks in their portfolio that have gone up more than the market lol

Fit-Boomer

DEA. It’s a reit. I like REITS and on paper this one seems to have a nice MOAT and nice upside. But it keeps going down and down. Never sure why.

thememanss

Google's new AI products are absurd, and that's just what they are publicly releasing.  They are at the forefront of AI research and development, and frankly I don't think it's even close.  Couple that with a particularly strong MOAT (essentially being synonymous with the Internet itself through Google itself and Youtube), strong continued earnings, a wide range of products that they continue to iterate and improve on in multiple markets, and a downside that would only see them broken up into numerous profitable businesses if it ever comes to pass (each of which is likely worth more separately than together), and kts where I'm parking my long-horizon money.  I'm not making major short term plays on them, but I'm buying stock at the current price and will likely hold indefinitely at this point.

Nutsallinyomouf

They are behind in AI and they have yet to effectively monetize it while loosing market share in search. The search MOAT is drying up (optically, remains to be seen if true). Until they address the search issue they are going to trade at depressed valuations in comparison to the rest of the market.

adi1709

And what do you think is their MOAT since you are 'long-term on CRWV'?

STradesCastingCouch

They currently pay Reddit for the data to train their models. There is nothing out there like Reddit that has a pulse on what real people think, in real time. Owning it would definitely accelerate their models and possibly create a MOAT

dannydimes829103

Yes Microsoft has a great MOAT!

Ok-Subject-9114b

Waymo had a quite the MOAT going for it, they are everywhere. The only thing Tesla could do better if executed right is scale the fleet. Imagine being able to go let your Tesla be a taxi while you sleep.

Jumpy-Mess2492

Err, look at the earnings reports lol. Most retail has pulled future earnings and recent reports have been terrible. Most people are fixated on Mag7 and the top 100 companies in the S&P. Most of them have MOAT's or straight up monopolies so yeah, they are doing fine. There was a lot of pre-buying which shielded a lot of the damage. I would expect to see the affects later this fall. Germany's chancellor seems to have knowledge that Trump is caving on all of the tariffs so this pain may be short lived.

MarketCrashJuly2021

Pretty much cooked in any European country. DoorDash runs the food delivery (especially now so that they bought Deliverroo). And UBERs always about 20% more expensive than taxi’s. Uber in Europe is pretty much exclusively “professional” drivers. In Asia they’re nothing and I don’t think they’ll grow there anytime soon, too much local competition. Don’t see a big enough MOAT. Even in North America there’s too many drivers.. maybe they eventually even try to unionize cause they’re getting taken advantage of hard.

stonk_monk42069

That is a VERY naive and simply incorrect statement to start off your post. Their MOAT is the whole stack, from chip, to interconnects and networking, to software/CUDA. Do you have the slightest idea how difficult it is to build efficient datacenter solutions? Bottlenecks need to be constantly improved and removed across all products.  Also "they can just steal their API"?  You obviously don't have a single clue what you're talking about.  I should know this by now, but this sub still keeps surprising me with people's lack of knowledge and just pure ignorance. 

Adorable-Classic-410

Once automation starts taking off NVDA will be the absolute MOAT queen

carpetmagicianlaughs

No MOAT, insane competition.

Brazilian-options

Microsoft growing faster, with a bigger MOAT and more resilient than Netflix. Trading almost at half it’s Ratios lmao

defnotIW42

Great. Love it. No compounding except possible fringe personalisation shit (more a bone to shareholders). Market reacted absolutely justified. The good way for both hims and nvo. Altough you should except HIMS margins to shrink. And it kinda indicates that HIMS is developing a MOAT for the moment. Perfect D2C vehicle.

Content-Season-1087

Nvidia MOAT isn’t just the chips, it’s CUDA. The weakness is inferencing can be done much more cheaply on other chips and people are just getting to that optimization

stopitkeval

Ever heard of the term “MOAT”

onehandedbackhand

> and then make money. but only a little bit of money because there is virtually no MOAT in food-delivery and people will pick a less expensive competitor in a heart beat.

AmbitiousSkirt2

Yeah I mean it’s a tough stock to gauge in the short term like that more so than other that you know are for sure gonna recover and shoot right back up but RDDT for me is a really long play. I use this app every single day and I’m on it very frequently and I have learned an unbelievable amount of things from reddit that is knowledge that will be useful for the rest of my life. So RDDT has given back and as Peter lynch said “invest in what you know and companies you use” plus fundamentally RDDT has a ridiculous quick ratio to pay off anything they need to they have been profitable now they have a MOAT and the MOAT is the fact that nobody else is doing it like RDDT is with the insane amount of traffic it has

Scourge165

Why buy it at 40? Because you like the long term trajectory and you're not going to overreact and...most importantly, you have to be able to afford to. I bought it at 230 a share in late '19, early '20. 1500 shares two splits ago. I should have bought in 2014, 2015, 2016, when I was told by my friend who...does this for a living, but I didn't. I held in '21-'22 when tech was just getting crushed. After the 4-1 split and it'd gone from \~320 to 120. Again, my Friend, who manages 1.5B from MS told me...buy more, don't sell. Instead, I waited until it was back up to 480 to buy another 1000 shares. So if Nvidia went ALL the way down to 40 dollars WITHOUT AMD or another company catching them and they were maintaining their... enormous MOAT, goddamn right I'd buy more shares. I'd probably buy another 10000-20000. But, I'm also 40 and if I push retirement back to 55, that's fine. It'll pay off and I'll still bet every dollar I have invested, NVDA will be a 5T market cap within 2 years, 7 within 4 and 10 within 15. In THAT scenario though, AMZN is going to be \~80 a share again...where it was when I bought in, and META probably down to 240, GOOGL(though I sold that and I'm not sure I'd be as quick to jump back in there). Point is, NVDA isn't going to 40, it'll only take more moronic policy by Trump to get to 90 and they will generate more net revenue this quarter than any other company in the world. When you do that, the share price catches up.

jnas_19

TGT got the worse MOAT if any and managment cant stop fucking up. Bankrupt material in the long run

Anonymous157

Very overvalued in my opinion. It has no MOAT

Yawning_Creep

I've no puts but I've got some TSDD.. But I'm 98+% in SPY/MOAT/MSFT so no amount of TSLA gains will outweigh the pump were going to see in Monday. 2nd time policy decisions have destroyed my TSLA shorts.. Last one was brutal and I think that this one will be equally brutal.