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Did Social Media Predict Carl Icahn’s Biggest Trades?

The following article was written by our guest author Insider Monkey. There are a select few money managers whose words can move entire markets, but up to this point, only one has mastered the medium of Twitter [TWTR]: Carl Icahn. After creating an account earlier this year, the billionaire has disclosed a few big positions on the micro blogging site, including a purchase of Apple [AAPL] and a sale of Netflix [NFLX] stock.

While the media has had a lot to say about Icahn’s Twitter account, no one has taken the time to examine his trades in terms of social media sentiment. For someone who is likely the world’s most socially active hedge fund manager, surprisingly little analysis has been done in this realm.

With the help of Market Prophit, a company that converts stock-related social media posts into easy-to-read data, we’re able to look at how much chatter Icahn’s biggest trades created. More interestingly, it appears that some of this buzz actually predicted the moves before they happened.

Netflix

Netflix was the recipient of a major cut by Icahn late last month. In a 13D filing and subsequent tweet after the market’s close on October 22nd, the investor reported a 4.5% stake in the streaming video company, about half of what he previously owned. This move came 24 hours after Netflix’s stock price had surged on promising third quarter earnings.

Market Prophit’s CEO, Igor Gonta, revealed to us that on the morning of the 22nd, social media circles were already buzzing about a major seller “doing large block sales” of Netflix, and Icahn’s name was visibly in the rumor mill. By the time the market had closed, Icahn’s official SEC disclosure pressed the stock to drop almost all of its gains from the previous day’s earnings report.

Apple

Any analysis of Carl Icahn and Twitter must include Apple. On the afternoon of August 13th this year, Icahn tweeted that he had a “large position” in the tech giant on the basis of undervaluation, adding that a conversation with Tim Cook was on the table. As Gonta pointed out to us, shares of Apple rallied by nearly 2.5% just 20 minutes after Icahn’s initial tweet, and social media sentiment turned positive approximately two minutes prior to the reveal (see graph here).

The next major event on the Icahn-Apple timeline was on October 1st. Halfway through the morning on this date, Icahn tweeted about the dinner he had with Tim Cook the night before, in which he reiterated his desire for Apple to pursue a $150 billion share buyback plan.

Market Prophit again picked up on bullish chatter before Icahn’s tweet went live at 10:23am. This time, an uptick in positive social chatter led the tweet by a full 40 minutes, and shares of Apple had already risen by almost one full percentage point by half past ten. According to Gonta, social media sentiment turned negative immediately following Icahn’s tweet “because the price had already run up,” indicating that a classic “sell the news” phenomenon had just taken place.

Sitting here in early November, it’s unknown if Icahn will succeed in his quest to convince Apple that a larger buyback will lead to a $1,250 stock price. What we can say with confidence, though, is if the hedge fund manager is active on Twitter again, social media chatter may predict it.

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4 Hedge Funds Heavily Invested in Apple’s Fate

Written By Guest Author Insider Monkey. There are more than 8,000 hedge funds in existence today, and of this group, we at Insider Monkey track close to 600 of the best and brightest. The best picks of the best hedge fund managers have market-beating potential (see how we returned 47.6% in one year), and within this group, there are many ways to parse the data.

This week, we’ve covered some important tech topics in particular, like why Warren Buffett probably won’t buy Twitter [TWTR] and the peculiarities of Longbow Securities’ moves in NQ Mobile [NQ]. One subject that has been flying under the radar, though, is Apple [AAPL] and the hedge funds that surround it.

According to one Apple news site, the tech giant’s latest earnings release has been met with mostly optimism on Wall Street, especially from JPMorgan’s Mark Moskowitz. Moskowitz expects Apple’s current share price to hit $600 by December of 2014, primarily based on strong iPhone sales, the iPad’s potential in future quarters, and gross margins that are “good enough for long-term investors.”

With that in mind, we thought it’d be useful to run through the hedge fund managers that have stayed committed to Apple over the long run. Here are the four biggest bulls that have held the stock for at least two years:

David Einhorn

David Einhorn first bought Apple in the second quarter of 2010 and in the three years since, the manager of Greenlight Capital has upped his stake by nearly eightfold. While Tim Cook and the rest of Apple’s leadership didn’t adopt Einhorn’s iPref idea, his latest Q3 shareholder letter reveals he’ll likely remain bullish here for the “longer-term.”

David Shaw

Another billionaire, David E. Shaw, has held shares of Apple for the better part of the last decade. The manager of D.E. Shaw & Co doubled his exposure to the stock in the last round of 13F filings, and it actually represents the largest long-only holding in his entire equity portfolio. Shaw and Einhorn have the two largest Apple stakes of the funds we track, both of which represent nearly $1 billion in market value apiece.

Philippe Laffont

Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, meanwhile, has been a major Apple investor since the fourth quarter of 2004. Laffont founded his tech-focused hedge fund in 1999 after working for the legendary Julian Robertson, and Apple was his top stock pick for all of 2011 and most of 2012 before he slashed over half of his stake in the fourth quarter.

The fund manager now owns over $600 million in Apple stock and has recouped all of the shares he sold at the end of last year. While we don’t know exactly when Laffont cut his stake in 2012, it’s evident that he avoided much of the swoon that plagued investors who stuck with their gut, and actually bought back when shares were cheaper.

Ken Fisher

Although he’s technically not a hedge fund manager, Ken Fisher is a prominent investor worth tracking. Fisher Asset Management oversees nearly $40 billion in equity investments alone, and while it has been a long-term shareholder of Apple, the firm has only recently upped its stake to significant levels. At the halfway point of 2012, Fisher held $50 million worth of Apple stock; today, that number is more than $600 million.

It’s no secret that Fisher likes growth stocks that also trade at reasonable valuations, so we can understand why he’s bullish here. Apple trades at a PEG ratio near 0.9, and the sell-side still expects it to generate earnings growth of 15% a year over the next half-decade. That forecast trumps peers like Google [GOOG] and Microsoft [MSFT], and it’s cheaper than both.


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5 Banks Warren Buffett is Betting on for 2014

By our guest contributor Insider Monkey. As we begin to ponder what sectors will rule the markets in 2014, technology, healthcare and industrials are areas that many pundits point to. If you ask Warren Buffett, though, he’ll provide a decidedly different answer.

On CNBC earlier this week, Buffett gave a ringing endorsement to large-cap banks, revealing that he thinks they’re “in best shape [he] can remember.” While anyone who tracks Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio probably had a hunch Buffett is upbeat on banks—over 40% of his holdings are invested in the financial sector—these new comments indicate we should expect his bullishness to continue into next year.

By focusing on the best picks of the best hedge funds and other elite investors, it’s possible for retail investors to beat the market over the long-term (discover the data behind this phenomenon). Buffett is the cream of the crop and in light of his recent comments, we should take note of how he’s playing the banks.

Wells Fargo [WFC] is unequivocally the billionaire’s biggest banking bet, and his largest equity holding at that. The global giant is lauded for its management practices and simple business model, and its connection to Buffett has helped it land financing and advisory roles in multiple Berkshire acquisitions.

While shares of Wells Fargo are up nearly 25% year-to-date and the bank did beat Wall Street’s third quarter earnings estimates, its home lending business has been hurt by falling mortgage applications. Still, Wells’ long-term growth prospects and scale advantages remain intact, and Buffett has to love its price at a mere 10.6 times forward EPS. Don’t ignore the 2.8% dividend yield either; it's the best payout among the ‘Big Four.’

US Bancorp [USB] is Buffett’s No. 2 bank holding. Due to its attractive valuation, solid dividend yield, and strong growth prospects, many analysts know this regional player as a mini-Wells Fargo. In fact, US Bancorp is the only big bank that generates higher ROE and ROA figures than Buffett’s top pick.

His investment in Goldman Sachs [GS], meanwhile, now represents a major portion of Berkshire’s stock holdings. We discussed the intricacies of Buffett’s new $2 billion investment in Goldman here on MarketWatch last week, but all you need to know is that he doesn’t plan to close it any time soon.

The investment banking and brokerage firm has sentimental value for the billionaire, and it pays just 12% of its earnings out as dividends. Like Wells Fargo and US Bancorp, Goldman’s growth prospects are extremely cheap at current prices, and the multifaceted nature of its business gives Buffett exposure to an area of the financial sector that his other bank stocks don’t.

M&T Bank [MTB] and Bank of New York Mellon [BK] are a couple more Buffett favorites, and both are actually the final two bank stocks held in the top 20 of Berkshire’s equity portfolio. M&T Bank has been a staple in Buffett’s holdings for more than two decades, and it’s the only large U.S. bank that didn’t trim dividend payments during the financial crisis. The bank’s quarterly profit streak of nearly 40 years is legendary, and it’s no secret that Buffett is a fan of M&T CEO Robert Wilmers.

BNY Mellon, lastly, has been in Buffett and Berkshire’s good graces since the third quarter of 2010, and the stake was increased by 30% in their last 13F filing. The trust bank can see its bottom line improve if interest rates increase in the future. Uncertainty surrounding the fate of borrowing costs over the long-term is one reason why BNY Mellon could be considered undervalued.


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Will the Best Leon Cooperman Picks Please Stand Up?

By guest contributor Insider Monkey author Jake Mann. It’s not uncommon to hear hedge fund managers and other prominent investors sounding off on the economy, companies they’re invested in, or even why they hate Apple. So when Leon Cooperman, the billionaire head of Omega Advisors, was on CNBC earlier this week discussing his favorite stock picks, it would appear that this was rational advice all viewers should pay attention to.

Except it’s not.

According to our research at Insider Monkey, the best opportunity for hedge fund piggybackers to outperform the market lies in the small-cap space. Our newsletter that follows this strategy returned 47.6% in its first year (learn how we did it here), and longer-term returns are equally as promising.

In his interview on CNBC, Cooperman mentioned five of his top value investments: Sprint (S), AIG (AIG), Qualcomm (QCOM), KKR Financial (KFN) and SandRidge Energy (SD). All of these picks are fine and dandy in their own right, but only the last two are actually small-caps. In addition to KKR and SandRidge, Leon Cooperman has a few other small-cap stock picks that you should know about.

Atlas Energy

Atlas Energy (ATLS) is Cooperman’s top small-cap pick, and sits at the seventh largest position in his $6.5 billion equity portfolio. Richard Driehaus and Jim Simons are a couple other names that hold this oil and gas E&P, which is up 45% year-to-date. Shares of Atlas have had such a good 2013 because of a few factors: 1) MLPs have seen rising interest from traditional institutional investors, 2) more ETFs are looking at this space, 3) dividend yields have been growing, and 4) the macro environment for domestic natural gas, oil and NGLs is very bullish.

In addition to the impressive appreciation, Atlas Energy pays a 3.5% dividend yield that has quadrupled since 2011, and the valuation isn’t overblown at an enterprise value 2.3 times its revenue.

Chimera Investment

Chimera Investment (CIM), on the other hand, is a small-cap REIT that has been held by Cooperman since the second quarter of 2012 (see the full history here). Like the mythological origin of its name suggests, Chimera is a multi-faceted REIT that invests in residential MBS and different types of mortgage loans and it breaths quite a bit of fire with a 12% dividend yield.

Although quarterly dividend payments have fluctuated in value, they’ve been consistent in presence, and free cash flow has more than doubled over the past two years. On average, Wall Street expects funds from operations to grow by 5% to 6% a year over the next half-decade, but be aware that FFO has missed analyst targets in four of Chimera’s past five quarters. Even with the volatility, there’s no denying this REIT’s ridiculously attractive yield.

Atlas Pipeline Partners

Keeping Cooperman’s big bet on Atlas Energy in mind, it’s no surprise that the billionaire is also bullish on another MLP affiliated with the company, Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL). The natural gas processor is the 14th largest holding in Cooperman’s equity portfolio, and shares have had a solid year, up 20.8%.

In comparison to Atlas Energy, Atlas Pipeline’s focus as a full-service midstream company has allowed it to generate about twice the cash as its aforementioned ally, and thus, a higher dividend yield. Atlas Pipeline currently offers a yield of 6.5% on its shares and dividend payments have grown in five consecutive years. 

A couple more

We haven’t even discussed KKR and SandRidge yet. The latter is another oil and gas E&P, but unlike some of Cooperman’s other picks in the energy sector, SandRidge does not currently pay a dividend. With earnings growth of more than 40% expected this year alone, however, there’s much more momentum behind any bullish thesis here, and shares are actually pretty cheaply valued at 1.6 times book and a close parity on a price-to-sales basis.

Cooperman has held SandRidge stock since the fourth quarter of 2012 and depending on when he bought in, he could have booked as much as a 15% return so far on his investment.

KKR Financial, meanwhile, sits just inside Leon Cooperman’s 15 largest holdings and offers a whopping dividend yield of 8%. Yes, they’re up only 3.5% over the past year, but shares of KKR Financial are extremely attractive because of their depressed valuation; they trade at less than 7 times forward earnings and a price-to-earnings growth ratio of a mere 0.6. With double-digit annual earnings growth expected over the next five years and positive free cash flow, dividends appear sustainable.

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Is An ‘Activist Mutual Fund’ A Smart Investment?

The following article was written by our guest author Insider Monkey. At Insider Monkey, we use a number of techniques to track investment activity of hedge funds and other notable investors. Our research has shown that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds, as determined by quarterly 13F filings, earn an average excess return of 18 percentage points per year (discover the details of our small-cap strategy). Last summer, we put this theory into practice by publishing a portfolio of the most popular small caps and since inception this portfolio has beaten the S&P 500 by 29 percentage points.

The activist

Investors can also receive more up-to-date information about what hedge fund managers are doing through 13D and 13G filings. 13Ds are also known as activist filings—when a hedge fund such as billionaire Carl Icahn’s Icahn Capital or billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square files a 13D as opposed to a 13G, it usually signals that it intends to push management to make changes at the company either privately or publicly. While activist campaigns do not always work, often these managers are successful in getting a company to sell itself, spin out a non-core business unit, return more cash to shareholders, or take other actions that increase shareholder value.

They also may benefit from improvements in general market conditions that push up the stock price, as with any other hedge fund investment. The combination of these factors sometimes results in high average returns: Icahn, for example, tends to have done well with his 13D filings in the past couple of years.

Meet one 13D Activist Fund

Northern Lights Distributors, LLC has launched a long-only fund (the 13D Activist Fund) whose managers select stocks from the universe of activist positions. While the fund has a limited performance history, it has outperformed the S&P 500 year to date with a return of 26% compared to the index’s total return of 18%.

The 13D Activist Fund also notes that third-party academic research shows superior performance for activist targets and this is not entirely captured by a pop in the stock price immediately following the announcement. For example, “a further significant increase in share price” occurs after the filing date according to one study on the returns from activism.

To capitalize on this finding, the 13D Activist Fund specifically seeks to take positions in activist targets from a variety of managers, targeting “20 to 40” holdings. For purposes of comparison, Icahn’s most recent 13F only included a total of 19 positions, and some of these were in smaller-cap stocks (the 13D Activist Fund targets stocks with market capitalizations of at least $1 billion) or in companies where he was not making activist moves.

As a result, by construction its portfolio should incorporate ideas from several activists rather than mimicking any particular fund’s portfolio. The fund managers acknowledge that there is little fundamental analysis involved in their strategy; they prefer to defer on that point and analyze the activist investor’s record directly in determining the likelihood of positive returns.

To do this, they analyze both the overall track record of an activist as well as his success in a particular industry or sector; activists who have historically struggled in tech investments might be ignored if they file a 13D on a tech stock. They also evaluate the activist’s plans for creating change at the company. Different activist techniques might be judged more or less likely to succeed.

Recent data

Its most recent publicly disclosed data shows that the 13D Activist Fund’s three largest holdings were Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ:JACK), where Blue Harbour Group has been engaged in an activist strategy for about three years; Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX), one of the top holdings of Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct Capital, and Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (USA) (NYSE:CP), which has more than doubled in the last two years as Ackman has succeeded in transforming the railroad.

Motorola Solutions Inc (NYSE:MSI), another ValueAct holding, and Ackman favorite BEAM Inc (NYSE:BEAM) rounded out the fund’s top five picks. Looking at the rest of its top holdings, it appears that other activists the fund tracks include billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management, Keith Meister’s Corvex Capital, and Richard McGuire’s Marcato Capital Management.

Final thoughts

Given the combination of the fund’s performance and the academic research supporting the concept of imitating activists, the basic concept involved seems to be a good one particularly for investors who are looking for assets with a low correlation to the overall market.

The question is which of the following would be the best way for an interested investor to participate: buy into the fund and pay its fees (likely the only way for most investors to access the entire portfolio of activist opportunities), watch for its public reports and directly buy some of the stocks the managers choose (which has a considerable delay), or follow 13Ds oneself and directly research these for attractive single-stock investments.


Disclosure: I own no shares of any stocks mentioned in this article.

Insiders Are Crazy About These High-Yield Stocks

By Guest Author Insider Monkey. According to economic theory, company insiders should avoid buying stock and in fact should generally tend towards selling shares (and diversifying their wealth) unless they are confident in the company’s prospects. Insider purchases should therefore signal this confidence, and in fact studies generally show a small outperformance effect for stocks bought by insiders (read our analysis of studies on insider trading). We track insider purchases and like to take a brief look at those where the purchase is large enough to be significant to see if the company might be a good buy.

Read on for our quick take on five high yield stocks which at least one insider has bought recently:

AT&T
An AT&T [T] Board member’s trust bought 9,000 shares of the company’s stock in late July. At current prices and dividend levels, AT&T pays an annual yield of 5%; in addition, the telecom giant is quite defensive with a beta of only 0.2. The company’s financials are stable as well, with growth in wireless being canceled out by a decline in the wireline segment resulting in total revenue and earnings only changing by 1-2% compared to a year ago.

We also track hedge fund activity, including through quarterly 13F filings; our research shows that the most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds outperform the S&P 500 by an average of 18 percentage points per year (learn more about our small cap strategy), and our own small cap portfolio based on hedge funds’ top picks has seen an excess return of 33% in the last 11 months. According to our database, Phil Gross and Robert Atchinson owned nearly 7 million shares of AT&T at the end of March.

Freeport-McMoRan
Another large company where an insider has been indirectly buying is commodities producer Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold [FCX]. With the stock down 13% in the last year against a market which has returned over 20%, the current dividend yield is now 4.3%. One contributing factor to the stock’s decline has been market disapproval over the company’s recent acquisition of two oil and gas companies; in addition to normal integration risk, it’s possible that this diversification could weaken management’s focus. Paulson & Co., managed by billionaire John Paulson, reported a position of 9 million shares at the end of Q1. George Soros, Ray Dalio, and Leon Cooperman were also bullish about the stock.

Philip Morris
One of the members of Philip Morris [PM]’s Board of Directors bought 1,000 shares of stock on July 23rd at prices around $89 per share. The $150 billion market cap global cigarette company offers a 3.8% dividend yield- lower than many other cigarette companies, on the theory that there are still a good deal of growth opportunities in international markets. With growth being weak in many countries around the world, Philip Morris’s revenue and earnings decreased modestly last quarter compared to the second quarter of 2012. Billionaire Ken Griffin is among PM shareholders.

Digital Realty Trust
An insider, as well as his children, recently bought shares of technology use-focused real estate investment trust Digital Realty Trust [DLR]. Because REITs receive favorable tax treatment as long as they distribute a large share of taxable income to shareholders, they often pay high dividend yields. Digital Realty Trust’s annual yield is 5.7%, and unlike many REITs it has been consistently increasing its dividend for years even through the financial crisis. We’d note that the stock is down 21% year to date following a steep drop in July, but investors who are not already too exposed to REITs may want to consider it.

Hersha Hospitality Trust
Another real estate investment trust which we’ve recorded an insider buying recently is Hersha Hospitality Trust [HT]. Hersha, an owner of hotel properties, did not perform well during the financial crisis and recession and so its dividend still has not recovered to its levels from the middle of 2008. The yield is still somewhat high, at 4.3%, but given the other opportunities available in REITs it might not be worth the risk. Ken Heebner’s Capital Growth Management initiated a position of 6.3 million shares in Hersha between January and March.


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Reader Question: Which Stock Screener Includes Insider Trades And Yield Figures


I’ve received an e-mail from one of my readers. Here is what he wrote:

“Hi Tom

I also live on passive income dividend stocks entirely for my daily expenses. I have a strict criterion for the yield being at least 3%. My other requirements are:

1) Minimum 50,000 shares traded daily (liquidity)

2) 1 year price performance equals or beats the S&P 500 (relative strength)

3) Recent insider large block purchases within the last 6 months.

And, just to comment on your comment, I also do not care for small insider buys or option purchases. I only look for VERY LARGE BLOCKS of shares being bought with DIRECT PURCHASES on the market. This is very key to my criteria.


Yahoo.com finance page has a very good "insiders transaction" page on each stock symbol you wish to research. You can get 6 months of purchasing on the open market information complete with share price bought, number of shares, and dates of purchases. Very very good info.

The problem is that my watch list has about 500 stocks and so it can become quite laborious to manually look up all 500 stocks. I've done it before but takes about half  day. The good news is that I can find some big blocks of high dividend stocks being bought just within price range so makes for time worth spent. The needle in the hay stack theory of investing. It only takes about 20 to 30 purchases to make up a nice passive income portfolio.

I consider insider purchases (again, ONLY big blocks bought on the open market within the last 6 months) very important because I am skeptical of the financial numbers that companies report to the public.  Earnings and other fundamental data are easily fungible, ask any accountant worth his salt.

But two numbers are important to fudge: dividend payouts, and large insider buys on the open market. Just can't lie on those two data points.  The other number that is not fungible is of course the historical price of the stock and volume traded. 

So, thats why I base my passive income portfolio based on those four data points:
Yield, Relative Strength, volume and Large Open Market Insider buys.

If a website ever could deliver those four criteria it would have a nice following. Nobody is doing it.

I have been doing my research manually for years because I cannot find a reliable free stock screener that can fulfill these 4 criteria. www.finviz.com comes very close but the insider transaction information is not reliable and it also includes insider sales which skews the results.

Do you know of any free stock screeners on the web that has at least two of the criteria; dividend yield and recent insider purchases.
Funny, cause the insider purchases screeners don't have yields and the yield screeners don't have insider buys. Any ideas?

Thanks”

Well, that’s a good question. I’m a bit more fundamental orientated and I don’t care much about small insider buys and sells. If a managing director or a CEO receives a $100 million share packet or options to buy or sell the companies underlying assets, it’s every day possible that he throws away his shares partly into market.

Well, back to your question. A good tool with insider and guru buys and sells which also includes the dividend yield is available on gurufocus.com. I use this site personally to screen the recent guru activities. Here is a link to the insider buy site on gurufocus.com.

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100 Most Bought Stocks By Popular Investment Gurus

100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment

I personally follow the activities from Warren Buffett. He is a highly trusted investor with a proven long-term track record. I also look at Carl Ichan’s (estimated net worth of USD 20 billion) stock purchases because he is one younger investor who can replace Warren Buffett's presence one day. 

Both have a different view on the capital market but they are very successful in the way how they act. These two guys are only an example of people who have build a great career on Wall-Street and developed to a top investment guru.

Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I also talk about investors like George Soros. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.


In order to find the hottest stocks at the investment premier league, I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all combined bought 569 stocks within the recent half year.


The top stock picks are now Berkshire Hathaway and AIG. Berkshire was bought by 14 gurus and AIG stakes were increased by 12 investors. Technology dividend stocks and insurers are hot picks within the guru scene. 71 of the top 100 guru stock buys pay dividends.

100 Most Sold Stocks By Famous Investment Gurus

Stocks with recent short activities by investment professionals originally published at Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

I made a screen of the biggest stock sells from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru sells list. They all sold in total 630 different stocks within the past half-year.

The top stocks are Wal-Mart (WMT), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG).

The 100 Most Attractive Stocks, Bought By Famous Investment Gurus Between May And October 2012

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all bought 502 stocks within the past half year. The top stocks are Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG). Google was bought by fourteen investment professionals and Oracle by eleven. ORCL stocks are one of the hot plays for investors because they are in average long in the stock with 0.52 percent of their full portfolio.

The most wanted sector was the technology and financial sector. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and twenty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least two stock market gurus.

100 Attractive Stocks, Bought By Famous Investment Gurus

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all bought 595 stocks within the past half year.


The top stocks are Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG). Both companies were bought by eighteen investment gurus. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and thirty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least three stock market gurus.

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100 Most Bought Stocks By Big Investment Gurus

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all bought 577 stocks within the past half year.



The top stocks are Google (GOOG) and Oracle (ORCL). The information internet provider was bought by seventeen investment gurus and the business software company by sixteen. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and forty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least three stock market gurus.


High Yield Stocks With Recent Insider Buys

Dividend Stocks With Recent Insider Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with insider transactions send often a clear signal for your own asset allocation. Insiders, those persons who know the company better as every analyst or investor, show their attitude to the company’s future. A stock often rises after insiders bought stocks from the company. Similar is it vice versa. The stock price often decline after insiders sold stocks from the company. Here are the recent insider transactions of the best yielding stocks:

High Yield Stocks With Recent Insider Buys

Dividend Stocks With Recent Insider Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with insider transactions send often a clear signal for your own asset allocation. Insiders, those persons who know the company better as every analyst or investor, show their attitude to the company’s future. A stock often rises after insiders bought stocks from the company. Similar is it vice versa. The stock price often decline after insiders sold stocks from the company. Here are the recent insider transactions of the best yielding stocks:

High Yield Stocks With Recent Insider Buys

Dividend Stocks With Recent Insider Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with insider transactions send often a clear signal for your own asset allocation. Insiders, those persons who know the company better as every analyst or investor, show their attitude to the company’s future. A stock often rises after insiders bought stocks from the company. Similar is it vice versa. The stock price often decline after insiders sold stocks from the company. Here are the recent insider transactions of the best yielding stocks:

High Yield Stocks With Recent Insider Buys

Dividend Stocks With Recent Insider Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with insider transactions send often a clear signal for your own asset allocation. Insiders, those persons who know the company better as every analyst or investor, show their attitude to the company’s future. A stock often rises after insiders bought stocks from the company. Similar is it vice versa. The stock price often decline after insiders sold stocks from the company. The Standard Register Company (SR) is the only stock with a double digit yield. The Director Eric McCarthey bought on March 01 and February 29 shares in a total amount of USD 62,465.

High Yield Stocks With Recent Insider Buys

Dividend Stocks With Recent Insider Buys By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Stocks with insider transactions send often a clear signal for your own asset allocation. Insiders, those persons who know the company better as every analyst or investor, show their attitude to the company’s future. A stock often rises after insiders bought stocks from the company. Similar is it vice versa. The stock price often decline after insiders sold stocks from the company. Here are the recent insider transactions of the best yielding stocks:

Stocks That Insiders Are Buying and Selling December 2011

An insider is a person who has the function as officer, director, key employee or large shareholder with potential access to non-public information about the company. Insider trades could indicate that insiders, those who probably know the company best, are confident about the future success. Insider buys and sells are no perfect indicators, but they often show the intension of better informed persons to their investments. In many cases, the company became worse after insider sold stocks and vice versa. However, I screened the latest buys and sells and created a list of the top transactions. Here is a current list of the top 10 insider buys and sells from last month. In total, the top 10 insiders sold shares in an amount of USD 5.5 billion. Roughly USD 0.3 billion were bought from the top 10 insiders. The sales to buys ratio amounts to 18.18.

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Related stock ticker symbols sales:
DG, EXPR, AZO, PRI, RATE, INTU, WFM, BBEP, VR, DNKN

Related stock ticker symbols buys:
RSG, CRFN, AGO, INCY, VMW, XCO, TXI, WMGI, GEOY, VPRT

Dividend Aristocrats With Biggest Insider Buys

Dividend Aristocrats With Highest Insider Transactions by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index, a product of Standard & Poor’s, that have shown a significant rise in insider ownership by more than 5 percent over the recent six months. 9 stocks fulfilled these criteria of which 4 have a yield of more than 3 percent. The biggest hike was realized by Family Dollar Stores (NYSE:FDO) where insiders increased their stake by 284.7 percent.

Here are the 3 top dividend stocks by yield:
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CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL) has a market capitalization of $21.78 billion. The company employs 49,250 people, generates revenues of $7,041.53 million and has a net income of $949.13 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,493.24 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 49.61 percent (operating margin 29.25 percent and the net profit margin finally 13.48 percent).


The total debt representing 33.25 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 76.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 9.92 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $1.78 of which $2.90 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.83, Price/Sales 3.10 and Price/Book ratio 1.12. Dividend Yield: 8.20 percent. The beta ratio is 0.73.


Long-Term Stock Chart Of CenturyLink, Inc. (Click to enlarge)


Kimberly Clark (NYSE:KMB) has a market capitalization of $28.09 billion. The company employs 57,000 people, generates revenues of $19,746.00 million and has a net income of $1,762.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,611.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 18.29 percent (operating margin 14.04 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.92 percent).


The total debt representing 32.78 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 110.04 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 32.55 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $4.18 of which $2.64 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.04, Price/Sales 1.40 and Price/Book ratio 4.83. Dividend Yield: 3.99 percent. The beta ratio is 0.34.


Long-Term Stock Chart Of Kimberly Clark Corp (Click to enlarge)


Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) has a market capitalization of $36.15 billion. The company employs 133,200 people, generates revenues of $24,222.00 million and has a net income of $2,504.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,721.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 19.49 percent (operating margin 14.99 percent and the net profit margin finally 10.34 percent).


The total debt representing 21.80 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 50.01 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 24.31 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $3.26 of which $1.38 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.09, Price/Sales 1.49 and Price/Book ratio 3.48. Dividend Yield: 3.27 percent. The beta ratio is 1.24.


Long-Term Stock Chart Of Emerson Electric Co. (Click to enlarge)

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

Dividend Aristocrats With Biggest Insider Buys (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 15.84 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 12.76. The dividend yield has a value of 3.27 percent. Price to book ratio is 3.14 and price to sales ratio 1.25. The operating margin amounts to 11.92 percent. Insiders own 2.31 percent of the company and increased their stake by 51.59 percent within the past 6 months.

Related stock ticker symbols:
CTL, KMB, EMR, ADP, APD, WAG, ADM, CTAS, FDO

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