Still many pros say the high entry fee is discouraging them, despite the favorable competition.
He also favors companies that operate in niche businesses that have a high entry barrier.
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High entry costs, such as land and equipment, keep many younger farmers away.
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Trust creates a high entry barrier into the industry.
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"If this is a high entry in the Chart Show on Sunday, we would expect to play the song as there are no editorial reasons not to play it, " the BBC said in a statement.
One reason, argues Ian Maxwell of Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, is that only the biggest firms can afford to get over the high barriers to entry in the high-return, low-risk niches of the mining business: iron ore, alumina, diamonds and industrial minerals.
In order to defend its market share better, Qualcomm is lowering chipset prices as well as broadening its portfolio of Snapdragons to include high performing entry-level chipsets.
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Consoles have tended to be much more closed ecosystems, with high barriers to entry.
Ma Bell is long gone, and so are most oligopolies with high barriers to entry.
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The high barriers to entry in the utility industry will also help fend off any additional competition.
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They prefer companies with unique ideas or niches that can be patented, or businesses with high barriers of entry.
That exceedingly high barrier of entry makes the predictions more fun and focused.
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Further, the complexity of wafermaking and a constrained supply of silicon provide high barriers of entry to potential competitors.
With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
The financial services industry, long protected by complex regulations, high barriers to entry and economies of scale, is ripe for disruption.
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With such high barriers to entry, it is unsurprising that most purveyors of elite education are old, and many are charities.
Mr Mitarai was lucky enough to inherit a firm with this kind of leadership, in a sector with high barriers to entry.
We focus on picking stocks with high barriers to entry that we think can maintain a competitive advantage over the longer term.
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The acceleration of vaccine development through cloning has broken down the sector's traditionally high barriers to entry, which has attracted the attention of pharmaceutical companies.
With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature in that they require massive scale and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
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"They have very high barriers to entry and financial stability, " says Schulte, noting also that KMP has no problems borrowing to fund new pipelines and terminals.
"There is value in the market for very well-located retail assets in secondary markets, where there are high barriers to entry and good demographic fundamentals, " he says.
Then there were the 3D printers making a big showing compared to the year prior, in which MakerBot unveiled the only high-profile entry in the space.
Not easily imitated creates high barriers to entry for competitors.
Yet despite high costs of entry and regulatory limits on spectrum availability and infrastructure investment, new technologies (LTE, satellite, microwave, and higher-frequency communications) and new competitors continue to enter the market all the time.
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When the means of production were expensive and the barriers to entry high, having a dad who owned a newspaper chain or a billboard company was a pretty good way to get a running start in the media business.
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We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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Silver is surging and gold has made new all-time highs, but the technicals indicate that risk is high and that better entry points may be presented in the months ahead.
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