That sort of moat is both a huge boon for investors in Meta (Instagram’s parent company) and usually safe from antitrust scrutiny — and the ire of economists. Hide the h1 in oak.

The Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle in the late 11th century, and the moat is still one of the largest of its kind in Great Britain.

Moat came up in 316 company transcripts for the second quarter, a record, and in nearly 250 transcripts for the third quarter as of Sept. 20, according to the market intelligence platform AlphaSense.

MOAT ETF also offers more sector diversification as compared to the more tech-heavy SPY ETF. As such, I do believe that it is a suitable alternative to ETFs which track the S&P 500.

Portfolios with a heavy dose of wide-moat companies tend to be high-quality buys that protect the downside better than most. Today we’ll cover three ETFs chock-full of wide-moat stocks.