According to Warren Buffett, Coca-Cola and Apple enjoy economic moats. Coca-Cola’s brand identity is a moat, and Apple’s brand and product design are both moats. Any feature that makes it difficult for the competition to break into an existing business’s market share is called a moat.

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Cybersecurity is mission-critical for TCS and Infosys, tech infrastructure and delivery agents are mission-critical for Zomato and Swiggy, and coal mining is mission-critical for Coal India. Any impact on the mission-critical factors can seriously hamper or even suspend the business. What are the mission-critical elements for TSMC?

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Retailers, both online and offline, sell many products at a loss. Have you ever come across potatoes or sugar being sold for just 1 rupee per kilo? How do retailers make money if they offer such steep discounts?

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The gross margins of tech companies are inherently different from those of most manufacturing companies. It is their different nature of business. But come to think of it, what really are the input costs for a technology company? Rules of thumb are good, but there always are "Side Notes."

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Yes Bank's investors have lost a little over 70% since a little before the Covid pandemic began. However, its market capitalization has been up 300% since then. Tune in to check out how stock price and the number of outstanding shares influence a stock's market cap.

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Several listed companies do not have promoters. How do they work? Is there an advantage to being family-run or professionally run? Isn't it difficult to imagine Reliance Industries without the Ambani family or the Adani group without the Adani family? Is there an investment case here?

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Infosys’s market capitalization is about half of TCS’s. However, it has a larger weightage than TCS in the Nifty 50 index. The answer is in the free-float market capitalization of the two IT giants. But what makes their free-float market cap different?

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Vodafone Idea paid some dues for spectrum charges to the government in equity. In its early days, Facebook paid an artist to decorate its headquarters in equity. Why do companies pay in equity? And what sets the respective equity payments of Vodafone and Facebook apart?

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