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Economic Moat

  • 47 installs
  • 65 repo stars
  • Updated April 17, 2026
  • kangarooking/buffett-letters-skill

Evaluate competitive advantages that protect a business from rivals over decades.

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Assess durable competitive advantages (brand, network, scale, switching costs). Moat width determines pricing power and long-term profitability.

  • Competitive advantage assessment
  • Pricing power analysis

Economic Moat by the numbers

  • 47 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +1 installs in the week ending Aug 2, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
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  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedApril 17, 2026
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What it does

Evaluate competitive advantages that protect a business from rivals over decades.

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经济商誉 / 护城河识别

R — 原文 (Reading)

"GEICO's cost advantage is like a moat protecting a much-sought-after business castle." (1986)
"Economic goodwill does not, in many cases, diminish. Indeed, in a great many instances it actually grows in value over time. In character, economic goodwill is much like land." (1999)

I — 方法论骨架

经济商誉 = 品牌+市场地位+定价权+客户忠诚度 → 使企业能在极少额外资本下增长利润。

关键区分:

  • 会计商誉会摊销减少;经济商誉往往随时间增长(如土地)
  • 经济商誉的核心标志:不需要大量资本投入就能增长利润
  • 护城河 = 保护经济商誉不被侵蚀的屏障(成本优势/品牌/网络效应/切换成本/许可)
  • 商品企业(无护城河):只有产能短缺时才能赚好钱

A1 — 书中的应用

案例1: See's Candy

  • 问题: 为什么一个糖果公司值$2500万?
  • 使用: 经济商誉识别——See's能在不增加资本的情况下通过品牌定价权增长利润
  • 结果: 50年产生超$20亿税前利润,投入资本极少

案例2: GEICO的护城河

  • 使用: 成本优势作为护城河——承保费用23.5% vs 对手38.5%
  • 结果: 持续的市场份额增长和承保盈利

A2 — 触发场景

1. 评估一个公司是否有长期竞争力 2. 判断一个品牌是否值溢价 3. 决定是否应该为"优秀企业"支付溢价 4. 分析为什么某些公司能在行业中长期领先

语言信号

  • "这个公司有护城河吗?"
  • "竞争优势可持续吗?"
  • "为什么这个品牌能收溢价?"
  • "需要多少资本才能增长?"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • cigar-butt-vs-great-business 的区别:雪茄蒂vs伟大企业是投资策略选择,护城河是具体的分析工具

E — 可执行步骤

1. 识别护城河类型(至少一种)

  • 成本优势 / 品牌力 / 网络效应 / 切换成本 / 规模效应 / 许可壁垒
  • 完成标准:指出具体类型并给出证据

2. 检验资本需求

  • 完成标准:计算"利润增长需要的额外资本"比例——越低越好
  • 判停:如果利润增长需要等比例的资本投入 → 可能没有经济商誉

3. 检验耐久性

  • 完成标准:回答"这个护城河10年后还在吗?"并给出理由

B — 边界

  • 护城河不是永久的——技术变革可以摧毁最深的护城河(柯达、诺基亚)
  • 经济商誉难以量化——不能精确计算出"护城河值多少"
  • 作者盲点:巴菲特低估了科技行业护城河(平台效应/网络效应)——Apple后期投资证明护城河分析需要与时俱进

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相关 skills (阶段 3 填充)

  • depends-on: circle-of-competence
  • composes-with: aesop-three-questions, business-picker

审计信息

  • 验证通过: V1 ✓ / V2 ✓ / V3 ✓
  • 蒸馏时间: 2026-04-16

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