The widest moats at $50 billion and up.

Wide tier (score 80–100) · market cap $50B or more

A moat at scale is a different achievement than a moat in a niche. At $50 billion and up, a company is big enough that competitors, regulators, and its own size all push against the returns — so holding a Wide-tier score (composite 80 or higher) here means the pricing power and returns on capital have survived being attacked from every direction. Scale doesn’t earn the score any slack: the same five sub-scores apply unchanged.

The trade-off is arithmetic, not opinion: the bigger the base, the harder it is for reinvestment to move the needle, and this screen says nothing about price — many of these names trade well above value if growth stopped today. For the overlap of this quality bar with a sensible price, see Wide moats on sale. Scores come from primary SEC filings via the public methodology.

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10 Wide-moat companies have no market-cap figure in our data, so they can’t be placed on either side of this screen’s size cutoff and aren’t listed.

35 companies clear the screen

Ranked by Moat Score, highest first.

Watchlist#CompanyTicker
1FORTINET, INC.FTNT$113.2B100.0Wide moat788% above value if growth stopped today
2Meta Platforms, Inc.META$1.53T98.4Wide moat250% above value if growth stopped today
3MICROSOFT CORPORATIONMSFT$2.84T97.7Wide moat251% above value if growth stopped today
4Alphabet Inc.GOOGL$3.87T96.8Wide moat358% above value if growth stopped today
5ADOBE INC.ADBE$93.0B94.5Wide moat41% above value if growth stopped today
6ELI LILLY & CoLLY$1.13T94.3Wide moat1526% above value if growth stopped today
7Monster Beverage CorpMNST$91.4B92.9Wide moat445% above value if growth stopped today
8MOODY'S CORPORATIONMCO$83.6B92.6Wide moat247% above value if growth stopped today
9LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONLRCX$387.2B92.0Wide moat673% above value if growth stopped today
10NVIDIA CORPNVDA$5.03T92.0Wide moat1398% above value if growth stopped today
11INTUIT INC.INTU$82.7B90.4Wide moat164% above value if growth stopped today
12DELTA AIR LINES, INC.DAL$55.6B89.9Wide moat45% above value if growth stopped today
13W.W. GRAINGER, INC.GWW$65.5B89.8Wide moat246% above value if growth stopped today
14Intuitive Surgical, Inc.ISRG$119.8B89.8Wide moat500% above value if growth stopped today
15MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS INCMPWR$63.9B89.5Wide moat1213% above value if growth stopped today
16Cintas CorporationCTAS$83.0B89.3Wide moat424% above value if growth stopped today
17Merck & Co., Inc.MRK$324.1B89.2Wide moat101% above value if growth stopped today
18FASTENAL COFAST$54.0B89.1Wide moat322% above value if growth stopped today
19O Reilly Automotive IncORLY$73.6B88.9Wide moat182% above value if growth stopped today
20THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANYSHW$78.6B88.5Wide moat196% above value if growth stopped today
21United Rentals, Inc.URI$72.0B88.5Wide moat167% above value if growth stopped today
22Arista Networks, Inc.ANET$218.6B87.4Wide moat827% above value if growth stopped today
23APPLIED MATERIALS INC /DEAMAT$425.2B87.0Wide moat458% above value if growth stopped today
24AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INCADP$101.4B87.0Wide moat167% above value if growth stopped today
25PayPal Holdings, Inc.PYPL$51.7B86.7Wide moat3% above value if growth stopped today
26CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.CDNS$88.7B84.8Wide moat636% above value if growth stopped today
27Airbnb, Inc.ABNB$87.9B84.4Wide moat215% above value if growth stopped today
28PROCTER & GAMBLE COPG$345.3B82.7Wide moat111% above value if growth stopped today
29Apple Inc.AAPL$4.92T82.7Wide moat354% above value if growth stopped today
30T-MOBILE US, INC.TMUS$199.3B82.6Wide moat58% above value if growth stopped today
31Ross Stores, Inc.ROST$77.0B81.7Wide moat270% above value if growth stopped today
32AMAZON COM INCAMZN$2.49T81.4Wide moat572% above value if growth stopped today
33NETFLIX INCNFLX$295.9B81.2Wide moat392% above value if growth stopped today
34VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC / MAVRTX$121.2B80.6Wide moat228% above value if growth stopped today
35COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP /NEWCOST$414.4B80.4Wide moat493% above value if growth stopped today

Where these names sit

Technology (17) · Consumer Discretionary (7) · Healthcare (4) · Industrials (3) · Communications (2) · Consumer Staples (1) · Materials (1)

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