Report
Jaime Katz
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Lack of switching costs and low barriers to entry underlie Wayfair’s no-moat rating.

Wayfair continues to take share in the fragmented home goods market, which it believes represents a $300 billion opportunity in North America and another $300 billion addressable market in Europe. The firm’s differentiation comes by way of product breadth and its logistics network, which permits faster delivery of both small and large parcel than most of its peers. Faster delivery is a function of fewer touchpoints, reducing damage and improving Wayfair’s brand equity with each positive delivery...
Underlying
WAYFAIR INC.

Wayfair is a holding company. Through its e-commerce business model, the company provides customers with browsing, merchandising and product discovery for products from various suppliers. The company has online selections of furniture, decor, decorative accents, housewares, seasonal decor and other home goods. The company's mobile app also provides customers a way to shop for their home from their home using its View in Room 3D augmented reality tool. The company's sites include: Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern, Birch Lane, and Perigold. Wayfair is the only one of the company's sites that also operates internationally, operating as Wayfair.ca in Canada, Wayfair.co.uk in the U.K. and Wayfair.de in Germany.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

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Analysts
Jaime Katz

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