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2 Competitive Advantages That Drive Stock Returns

2 Competitive Advantages That Drive Stock Returns

There are many attributes of great companies, but one thing they all have in common is some sort of competitive advantage. The ability to recognize when a company has an edge over its competition is integral to successful investing, which is why it's incredibly important to understand two of the greatest competitive advantages in business: network effects and counter-positioning. Network effects is a phenomenon where a network exponentially increases in value with every user that joins.