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What is MoatScan? In three steps.

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1 · MOAT

How durable?

How resilient is the business against competition? Distilled into a MoatScore 0–10.

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2 · VALUE

What is it worth?

Fair value from earnings power and peer comparison — plus the margin of safety to price.

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3 · SIGNAL

Over- or undervalued?

A sober verdict — never a “BUY” shout, but a measured assessment.

Honest, not falsely precise.

For Volkswagen, external tools quote fair values from €98 to over €1,000 on the same day — a factor of 10. Where a valuation cannot be computed responsibly, we show an honest “not reliable, with reasons” instead of one of ten contradictory numbers. That is what separates a judgement from a claim.

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How MoatScan turns moat, fair value and signal into a sober verdict.

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APPLE INC.

TICKERAAPL ISINUS0378331005 WKN865985

PRICE

308,63 $

SIGNAL

★ VERY STRONG

Composite signal

RATING

WATCH

MOATSCORE

10/10

DISRUPT

▼ LOW

Disruption risk

MoatScoreA measure of how durable the competitive advantage is — distilled from four business-quality dimensions into a single 0–10 figure. The higher, the harder the business is to attack.

10/10

★ Quality bonusExceptionally strong metrics and long-run consistency lift the score above the mere sum of the sub-scores.

ProfitabilityHow profitable the core business is — margins and returns on capital over the years.2/2

MoatThe source of durability: brand, switching costs, network effects or scale advantages.2/2

Fin. healthHow solid the balance sheet is — leverage, liquidity and resilience.1/2

GrowthHow reliably revenue, profit and cash flow grow over the years.1/2

Valuation levelPurely informational: how expensive the stock is relative to its metrics. Deliberately does NOT feed into the MoatScore.0/2

informational — does not feed into MoatScore

ValuationWhat the company is worth — compared with what it costs. Yields the margin of safety.

PRICE

308,63 $

Fair ValueWhat the company is worth based on its earnings power — averaged from several independent valuation paths.

≈ 235 $

DCF blend · Graham · earnings power

Margin of safetyThe gap between price and fair value. A minus means you pay more than the business is worth on our numbers.

−31,4 %

Forecast uncertaintyHow reliable the valuation is. The higher, the wider the range of possible fair values — interpret with care.HIGH

STRONGLY OVERVALUED

Crisis resilienceHow the stock held up in real historical crashes — depth of the drawdown and length of recovery across several crises.

9/10

ROBUST

Crises weatheredHow many major market crashes the stock has already been through and survived.3

Avg. max drawdownThe average deepest price drop during the crises it weathered.−38 %

Avg. recoveryHow long the stock took on average to regain its pre-crisis high after a crash.~437 days

Weathered every major crisis and recovered.

Capital allocationHow wisely management deploys the capital it earns — does every euro invested create more value than it costs?

9/10

STRONG

Return vs. cost of capitalDoes the company earn more on its invested capital than that capital costs? A surplus means it creates value.well above

Owner-earnings yieldThe freely available owner's profit relative to the price — what an owner would actually take home.1,4 %

Every dollar invested creates value rather than burning it.

VERDICT: WATCH ● Business quality is world-class — signal VERY STRONG, MoatScore 10/10. But the price sits about a third above fair value, so the rating is WATCH, not buy. A great company is not automatically a great stock — MoatScan makes exactly that difference visible.

Real MoatScan analysis · snapshot 05 Jul 2026 · prices change · not investment advice

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AI + determinism

AI judgement anchored in verified metrics — not gut feeling.

Multi-market

US, Europe, Asia — currency-normalised and comparable.

Moat focus

Brand, network, cost, regulation — the sources of real durability.

Fair-value model

Several valuation paths instead of one number — with cyclical normalisation.

Peer comparison

Against the median of the right sub-segment, not apples vs. oranges.

Honest limits

Where a valuation is not reliable, we say so — instead of guessing.

Why you can trust the analyses.

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Checked consistency

Text and figures are automatically checked for contradiction. What you read matches the metrics.

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Independent

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