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VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF

MOAT tracks a staggered, equal-weighted index of 40 US companies that Morningstar determines to have the highest fair value among firms with a sustainable competitive advantage.

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF ("MOAT") invests in U.S. companies that possess wide economic moats per Morningstar's methodology.

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Quality is one of the most durable investment factors, but that durability doesn't come cheap, which is to say that finding quality stocks at a discount can be a trying task. Among exchange traded funds, the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is one of the most credible avenues for investors seeking exposure to [.

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Stocks with the often-enviable wide moat designation and the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) aren't yet soaring in 2022, but investors shouldn't be deceived by lethargic first-quarter showings. To its credit, MOAT is outperforming the S&P 500 by about 440 basis points on a year-to-date basis.

Wide Moat Stock Outlook Still Compelling

Wide moat stocks, including the holdings in the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT), often prove durable when market angst is high, as is the case to start 2022. However, MOAT is in the red through the first two months of 2022, but some analysts believe that wide moat equities have the ingredients to [.

Wide Moat Stocks Can Get Their Grooves Back

MOAT tracks the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus index, the one with a sophisticated proprietary strategy, which, revolves around filtering out stocks without "sustainable competitive advantages" and with a too-generous valuation.

MOAT: A Few Vulnerabilities Worth Discussing

VanEck Vectors Morningstar International Moat ETF

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (CBOE: MOAT) provides investors with basket exposure to domestic equities with the wide moat designation, but that style of investing isn't confined to U.S. stocks. MOAT has an international counterpart — the VanEck Vectors Morningstar International Moat ETF (MOTI) — and it's an exchange traded fund to consider today, particularly [.

Wide Moat Advantages Extend Beyond Domestic Stocks

Equity market volatility isn't off the charts. Not yet, anyway, but it's perked up enough in the first quarter that some market participants are evaluating strategies aimed at mitigating that turbulence.

Wide Moat ETF Has Shelter-From-Storm Credentials

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One benefit of a turbulent January for equities is that some stocks, including familiar names investors would love to embrace, are now trading at more attractive multiples. In fact, a surprising source of some of those now-compelling valuations is the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT).

Move Up in Quality With Wide Moat ETF

Technology stocks are rarely inexpensive. The same goes for companies with the wide moat designation, particularly those residing in the tech sector.

Some MOAT Tech Holdings Are Now Attractively Valued

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is home to stocks that are attractively valued and tied to companies with deep competitive advantages. In theory, that's a tough combination to find because a company with strong edges over rivals can command premium multiples.

Some Wide Moat Stocks Aren't Too Pricey

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is coming off a solid 2021 in which in the exchange traded fund gained more than 24%, suggesting that there's something to the combination of attractively valued companies with strong competitive advantages. MOAT, which tracks the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index, topped the S&P 500 in December, and [.

Valuations Set Table for MOAT 2022 Upside

Vaneck Morningstar ESG Moat ETF

The VanEck Morningstar ESG Moat ETF (CBOE:MOTE) is just over two months old, but it's not a stretch to say that this is a credible, compelling addition to the burgeoning landscape of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) exchange traded funds. It helps that MOTE is the ESG answer to a well-established ETF — the VanEck [.

Moats/ESG ETF Could Be in Right Place at Right Time

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Wall Street is at a critical juncture now as the Fed is likely to speed up the QE tapering ahead and the Omicron virus is spreading fast. While the previous factor may raise interest rates ahead, the latter factor may drive down bond yields due to a safe-haven rally.

Quality ETFs & Stocks for Likely Faster Fed Tightening & Omicron

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is beating the S&P 500 Value Index by about 200 basis points this year, indicating that there's validity in considering the exchange traded fund as an alternative to pure value rivals. On that note, it's worth pondering how valuation meshes with identifying companies with stout competitive moats, [.

Why the Wide Moat Valuation Component Is Important

MOAT is a concentrated portfolio of 50 stocks that have sustainable competitive advantages, or "wide moats", that happen to be trading at significant discounts to fair value. Such deep value opportunities are wearing thin in today's red hot stock market, but MOAT has beaten the S&P 500 over time, and I see no reason to sell yet.

VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF: Trust The Strategy And Hold On

The MOAT ETF outperformed the S&P 500 in the last decade. We can also consider MOTI or GOAT as potential alternatives to MOAT as the US stock market is extremely overvalued, increasing the risks of setbacks.

MOAT: Past Outperformance But Risk Of Setbacks

More data and science are needed to get a better picture of how the Omicron variant of the coronavirus will affect people, businesses, and financial markets over the medium-term, but stocks felt some near-term impact earlier this week and last week. The bad news is that there were declines.

After Omicron Market Drubbing, Some MOAT Holdings Look Cheap

Fixed income investors de-risked during the month of November with junk bonds seeing heavy sell-offs, possibly prompted by the introduction of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron. Last year, when the pandemic racked the bond markets, investors also dumped risky debt with the fear that debtors would not be able to repay their financial obligations.

Junk Bonds See Major Sell-Off During Month of November

Inflation continues its upward trend, and while plenty of experts expect rising consumer prices will ebb next year, many of them thought that inflation would be transitory. Go figure.

Wide Moat Companies Have Inflation-Fighting Potential

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is the most venerable name among exchange trade funds focusing on companies with deep competitive moats. With that in mind, investors looking to marry wide moats with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles might want to look to VanEck for that combination, and the issuer is obliging, [.

MOTE Marvelous Combination of ESG, Wide Moats

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is an example of an exchange traded fund with plenty of perks, some of which might catch investors by surprise. It'd be reasonable to expect that companies with wide competitive moats would be somewhat pricey on valuation.

Wide Moat Stocks Offer Value, Inflation Protection

Stocks with the wide moat designation often come with an array of benefits, including quality attributes and enviable competitive positioning. As such, it's reasonable that many investors think that they will pay up for the privilege of embracing wide moat names.

Some Wide Moat Stocks Are Attractively Valued

The VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF ("MOAT") invests in U.S. companies that possess wide economic moats as per Morningstar's methodology. The recent reconstitution saw the inclusion of chip makers Microchip Technology, Lam Research and KLA Corporation, which stand to profit from the tight semiconductor market.

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