Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.

FORBES: Political Economy

Four years later Satyam was doing tear-down analysis of all its products and its competitors' products.

FORBES: Consultants From Chennai

Fidelity Investments and American Funds, among the largest in the category, saw redemptions or weak investor interest compared with competitors, according to an analysis of mutual-fund flows done for The Wall Street Journal by research firm Strategic Insight, a unit of New York-based Asset International.

WSJ: Investors Sour on Pro Stock Pickers

The bottom line to our analysis of Apple: a thoroughly delightful brand that consistently beats out competitors in meeting customer expectations.

FORBES: The Most Valuable Company in the World

Analysis of free cash flow also facilitates management's comparisons of our operating results to competitors' operating results.

ENGADGET: Google's Q4 2011 results: $2.71 billion profit, $8.13 billion in revenue, Wall Street disappointed

And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.

FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

One analysis of 500 brands found that companies that were first to market were almost six times more likely to fail than competitors.

FORBES: Don't Waste Innovation on Products