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CASY Value reset after earnings and huge bull run- competitive advantage remains = attractive entry price?

Bought an entry level position in CASY today - looking for Buffet style play, that is;

**Easy to understand**
Gas, snacks, and pizza in small-town America. Casey's is usually the only real store in town, so people fill up there, grab a slice, and come back tomorrow. Pretty easy to understand

**Durable competitive advantage**
Small towns (generally speaking) can't support two big convenience stores, so whoever gets there first basically owns the market. That's the same local-territory idea I like in COKE. I also have to admit, I'm tickled that pizza provides real edge: it's one of the biggest pizza chains in the country, the margins are way better than fuel.

**Financial discipline/moat**
Management buys small regional chains, fix them up, and make them better. The (recent) CEFCO remodels are already showing a 30% jump in food sales. They've raised the dividend 27 years straight, debt is manageable, and they don't (so far) do dumb stuff. ROC is solid.

**Attractive price**
It got smoked about 35% after earnings, mostly because the fuel-margin beat looked like a one-time bump and the remodels will drag near term. The business didn't break, and analysts cut targets, not ratings. Right now trading @ 50 week SMA I got in around $609. About another 20% downside to the 200 week SMA. Also, analyst target consensus is \~ 30% upside - after the earnings report that dropped the price.