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VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF delivered strong recent outperformance, gaining 10.23% versus peers since my last review, driven by deeply discounted valuations and overweighted software stocks. MOAT trades at a rare 23% discount to its 5-year average P/E, in part justifying its unique selection process and higher expense ratio. The ETF's heavy allocation to undervalued software stocks and defensive sectors contributed to recent gains but historically lags EQWL and JQUA in long-term total and risk-adjusted returns.
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Launched on 04/24/2012, the VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) is a smart beta exchange traded fund offering broad exposure to the Style Box - Large Cap Blend category of the market.
The era of frictionless software scaling has violently collided with physical reality. Capital is flowing out of technology names and into the hard assets, baseload power generation, and silicon foundries required to sustain the artificial intelligence supercycle.
The VanEck Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) was launched on April 24, 2012, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Large Cap Blend segment of the US equity market.
Outdoor Holding Company operates GunBroker.com, the leading US firearms auction platform, now a pure-play e-commerce business after divesting its ammunition unit. POWW is gaining market share, with unit sales up 8.7% YoY and GMV rising 11.8% to $229M, outpacing industry NICS checks. Operational enhancements—FFL transfer integration, universal payments, and AI-driven tools—are expected to drive incremental sales, service revenue, and conversion rates.
Record ETF inflows and a new fee war in the Nasdaq 100 category were among the highlights on this week's ETF Prime. Host Nate Geraci welcomed Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, followed by Brian Walsh, head of advice and planning at SoFi.
Wall Street is caught in the midst of shifting geopolitical stances of the United States and Iran, chances of higher global inflation, weak U.S. jobs data, the possibility of stagflation in the U.S. economy, and the Fed's likely dilemma in fixing the monetary policy amid a weakening labor market and accelerating inflation. Also, the occasional selloffs in the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) space have been a steady concern.