One key ingredient to ensuring that a company can earn excess returns over time: a durable competitive advantage. If a company has a successful product or service, it won’t be long before rivals try ...

While businesses with sustainable competitive advantages are rare, history shows that some companies have been able to withstand the onslaught of competition—often becoming wealth-compounding machines ...

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