LowIQinvestor Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I wanted to compile a list of obvious duopolies. If you have some ideas, please contribute. I think this list will be ripe for some investment ideas. 1) Verizon & At&t 2) FedEx & UPS 3) Visa & Mastercard (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarley Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Seagate and Western Digital in the HDD space are pretty close. Those two control a little more than 80% of the HDD shipments with Toshiba at around 15%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCLarkin Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Moody's and S&P Westjet and Air Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopinath Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Pepsi & Coke?? Nike & Adidas?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 FTD & 1-800-Flowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRK7 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Mohawk and Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Morris IV Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Boeing & Airbus Western Union & Moneygram Fannie & Freddie? ;D If the RAI-LO merger goes through, Altria & RJ Reynolds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorpRaider Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Home Despot and Lowes. Don't sleep on Discover, Underarmour and Dr. Pepper Snapple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prevalou Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Altera et Xilinx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxx1313 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 GE & UTX (narrow-body jet engines) GE & Rolls Royce (wide-body jet engines) Sonova & William Demant Intel & AMD NVIDIA & ATI/AMD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxx1313 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 some more: NSC & CSX UNP & BNSF/BRK_A ORCL & SAP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongHaul Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Google and Bing Cable and DSL broadband provider Duracell and Energizer (mostly) I would not put ATT and Verizon in that bucket as TMobile and Sprint are a real threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayfinkle Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Google and Bing Cable and DSL broadband provider Duracell and Energizer (mostly) I would not put ATT and Verizon in that bucket as TMobile and Sprint are a real threat. htz avis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCLarkin Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 htz avis No, I think Enterprise is both bigger and better (though private). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BargainValueHunter Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadspace Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Alliance one and universal corp There are extra lessons to be learned with these two as you will see that having a duopoly is no guarantee of great returns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) If there was only a way to make money off that. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) If there was only a way to make money off that. ;) Running for election is one way. 24/7 political news channels is another, TV/radio which air political commercials, hotels for political conventions, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Morris IV Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Alliance one and universal corp There are extra lessons to be learned with these two as you will see that having a duopoly is no guarantee of great returns Whoa, what the heck happened to Alliance One? All-time low and tobacco is not declining (worldwide). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadspace Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Alliance one and universal corp There are extra lessons to be learned with these two as you will see that having a duopoly is no guarantee of great returns Whoa, what the heck happened to Alliance One? All-time low and tobacco is not declining (worldwide). Well its interesting what happened.... The big tobacco companies started to threaten them with vertical integration which injected some heavy fear into management When Im dealing with a duopoly and the supply demand situation is in your favour I expect you to raise prices. AOI refused to raise pricing as per their conference call because it may lead to the large tobacco companies further taking away business with more vertical integration (why the large companies want to be in this low margin business is beyond me? But that seems to be their fear) Couple that with high debts and unstable political situations in some of the areas they operate and this has been a disaster SO much for the power of duopolies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) If there was only a way to make money off that. ;) Running for election is one way. How about a moral way for someone who doesn't feel comfortable making a living through theft, extortion, and violence? And since someone already brought up politics I'll add to the duopoly list: Jesus vs. Mohammad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) If there was only a way to make money off that. ;) Running for election is one way. How about a moral way for someone who doesn't feel comfortable making a living through theft, extortion, and violence? And since someone already brought up politics I'll add to the duopoly list: Jesus vs. Mohammad. What about - Hall and Oates Captain and Tennille Seals and Crofts England Dan and John Ford Coley Loggins and Messina Donny and Marie Sonny and Cher Jan and Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Republicans and Democrats (though neither have IPO'd yet) ;) If there was only a way to make money off that. ;) Running for election is one way. How about a moral way for someone who doesn't feel comfortable making a living through theft, extortion, and violence? And since someone already brought up politics I'll add to the duopoly list: Jesus vs. Mohammad. Well Islam considers Jesus to be a prophet as well, actually in Islam he is supposed to return to defeat the Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (essentially the equivalent to the anti-Christ) near the day of judgement. Yes, I should have worded that Jesus worshipers Vs. Mohammad followers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 That would be a oligopoly. Hinduism is not far behind islam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobafdek Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Walt and Jesse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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