53 Stocks With Over 1000% Return In 7 Years

We are talking a lot about capital return secured by dividends. Growth is an essential element to create wealth. 

Dividends give you a regual income and hedge you against capital losses. They are no wealth driver in general.

Today I would like to present a couple of stocks that tenfold over the past six years. Each of the companies generated a stock return over 1000% since 2009.

There are not many companies on the list, only 53. Most of them are high growth names like Starbucks, Netflix, Priceline or Expedia. 

The financial crisis also gave investors the great opportunity to buy high-quality businesses for a really cheap price. Especially high leveraged stocks with big debt burden or companies with cyclic products were traded at deep discounts.

Here is a table of percentage moves from the March 9, 2009 stock market bottom for 54 stocks with returns over 1,000% listed in alphabetical order.

These are the results...

40 Leaders And Laggards Of EPS Surprise / EPS Revision

A huge number of companies have released their Q4 fiscal figures. Market actors are looking deeply into those numbers in order to compare them with their expectations.

If a company does not meet them, it got punished.

Attached you will find the 10 best and worst stocks that beat expectations in Q4/2015. You will also find a list of the 10 best and worst stocks with the highest EPS revisions for the upcoming quarter.

Sometimes it indicates a clear trend.

Here are the top results...

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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Carl Icahn’s Latest Dividend Stock Buys And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings

Carl Icahn’s recent stock buys and largest stock holdings as of Q1/2013 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Carl Icahn is a well known investor. He serves around USD 16.9 billion in his asset management company Icahn Capital Management LP. His asset allocation is very focused on single stocks. In total he has only 19 stock holdings of which four are new. Within the recent quarter, Icahn bought only five companies. He’s a guy who wants control and he wants to change something. In of his portfolio holdings he has a significant influence with an ownership of more than 10 percent of the outstanding capital.

From his 13 latest stock buys pay only seven dividends. Eight of them have a current buy or better rating by brokerage analysts.

Carl Icahn’s Biggest Dividend Stock Holdings

Largest dividend stock positions by Carl Icahn originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Super investors made a great return in the past and they got very rich. 

Not all started to make money with little stock trading. Some of them made big deals with huge loans. They took the risk and won the game.

Carl Icahn is such a person. He is an activist with $12 billion market value of his Icahn Capital Management vehicle. Herbalife, Transocean or Dell, Icahn is still named as investor who stirs up the pastry.

Today I like to look at the biggest dividend positions of Carl Icahn as of Q4/2012. His full portfolio has only 15 companies, which is not much and looks very undiversified. Warren Buffett still has more stocks in his portfolio and he is also no big asset gatherer. 

Icahn is no dividend lover; he has only four dividend stocks. His biggest dividend machine is the own property management company, Icahn Enterprises. IEP pays a 7.07 percent yield.