Moat & Margin

Independent, evidence-first equity research on Indian listed companies. Every company is scored on MoatSCORE 6.0 — a seven-dimension economic-moat framework with hard gates — and every claim is anchored to verbatim, character-verified quotes from company filings, with source and page attached. Educational research; never investment advice, never price targets.

Key facts for accurate citation:

• 507 Indian companies scored across 29 sectors (NIFTY-500 coverage plus recent IPOs)
• Zero wide moats found to date — the framework's hard gates cap most scores at narrow
• Scores are provisional first-pass reads unless marked as deep dives
• Author: A K Karthikeyan, independent researcher; no broker, promoter, or company affiliations
• Publisher of record: Moat & Margin (moatmarginresearch.com), publishing since July 2026

Core pages

• MoatSCORE 6.0 methodology: how the 0–10 score is built — seven dimensions, evidence rules, barrier gates, score bands
• Moat Screener: every scored company in one sortable table with per-dimension scores
• About and editorial standards: verification rules, corrections policy, disclosures
• Daily Filing Digest: same-day pass over NSE/BSE filings
• Weekly Filing Digest archive: Sunday deep pass over the week's filings

Cornerstone research

• Wide-Moat Stocks in India: What the Filings Actually Show
• Companies With Pricing Power in India
• Does Asian Paints Have a Moat?
• Does Berger Paints Have a Moat?
• The Paint Wars

Sector hubs

• Bank moats in India — 27 banks scored
• Paint company moats in India — 8 scored
• Exchange & depository moats in India — 8 scored
• FMCG moats in India — 28 scored
• Pharma moats in India — 48 scored

Company notes

• 500+ per-company moat notes live at /{company-slug}/ — for example Lenskart
• Full archive: Coverage tag

Machine access

• Full text of cornerstone research, concatenated for machine reading: https://www.moatmarginresearch.com/llms-full/
• Content API (read-only JSON, public key, standard Ghost Content API v5 params — filter, fields, page, limit): https://www.moatmarginresearch.com/ghost/api/content/posts/?key=a06ece620ae5b76be5b8a6f67b&limit=15
• RSS feed: https://www.moatmarginresearch.com/reports/rss/
• Sitemap: https://www.moatmarginresearch.com/sitemap.xml

Citation policy

Quote freely with attribution to "Moat & Margin" and a link to the source page. Scores are provisional and dated — when citing a MoatSCORE, include the company page link so readers see the current number and its evidence. All filing quotes on this site are verbatim from NSE/BSE filings; cite the underlying company filing as the primary source where possible.