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6 Most Promising Stocks That Big Investment Gurus Bought

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment guru's 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.

The top stocks are Oracle (ORCL) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ). Both companies were bought by ten investment gurus. 40 percent of the ten best buys were made within the technology sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks (over 3 percent yields) that were bought by at least two stock market gurus and have a low P/E ratio of less than 15.


Here are the results:
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Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD) has a market capitalization of $139.44 billion. The company employs 83,862 people, generates revenues of $74,474.92 million and has a net income of $12,773.90 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $13,655.25 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 18.34 percent (operating margin 12.20 percent and the net profit margin finally 17.15 percent). VOD was bought by 3 investment guru's. 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 25.31 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 43.72 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 8.96 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.24. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.44 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


 Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.56, P/S ratio 1.84 and P/B ratio 1.01. Dividend Yield: 5.25 percent. The beta ratio is 0.78.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (VOD) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) (NASDAQ: VOD) (Click to enlarge)


Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) has a market capitalization of $11.71 billion. The company employs 14,682 people, generates revenues of $11,229.07 million and has a net income of $1,367.37 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,115.30 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 27.74 percent (operating margin 17.93 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.18 percent). ETR was bought by 3 investment guru's.


 Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 30.43 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 134.03 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 15.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.28. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.32 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.52, P/S ratio 1.03 and P/B ratio 1.29. Dividend Yield: 5.06 percent. The beta ratio is 0.53.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Entergy Corporation (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Entergy Corporation (ETR) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) (Click to enlarge)


Sanofi SA (ADR) (NYSE:SNY) has a market capitalization of $101.40 billion. The company employs 113,719 people, generates revenues of $46,416.61 million and has a net income of $6,439.91 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $13,548.44 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 29.19 percent (operating margin 16.18 percent and the net profit margin finally 13.87 percent). SNY was bought by 3 investment guru's.


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 15.41 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 27.46 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.42 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.84. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.75 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 13.48, P/S ratio 2.21 and P/B ratio 1.36. Dividend Yield: 4.60 percent. The beta ratio is 0.87.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Sanofi SA (ADR) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of Sanofi SA (ADR) (SNY) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Sanofi SA (ADR) (NYSE: SNY) (Click to enlarge)


CA (NASDAQ:CA) has a market capitalization of $13.10 billion. The company employs 13,400 people, generates revenues of $4,429.00 million and has a net income of $823.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,640.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 37.03 percent (operating margin 28.31 percent and the net profit margin finally 18.58 percent). CA was bought by 3 investment guru's.


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 12.49 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 27.60 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 15.31 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.82. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.16 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.57, P/S ratio 2.81 and P/B ratio 2.36. Dividend Yield: 3.79 percent. The beta ratio is 1.02.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of CA, Inc. (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of CA, Inc. (CA) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) (Click to enlarge)


SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) has a market capitalization of $16.99 billion. The company employs 46,000 people, generates revenues of $39,323.49 million and has a net income of $1,152.03 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,355.99 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 5.99 percent (operating margin 4.91 percent and the net profit margin finally 2.93 percent). SYY was bought by 4 investment guru's.


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 23.44 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 56.71 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 27.00 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.95. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.03 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.93, P/S ratio 0.43 and P/B ratio 3.63. Dividend Yield: 3.74 percent. The beta ratio is 0.71.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of SYSCO Corporation (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of SYSCO Corporation (SYY) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of SYSCO Corporation (NYSE: SYY) (Click to enlarge)


ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) has a market capitalization of $71.79 billion. The company employs 29,800 people, generates revenues of $251,226.00 million and has a net income of $12,502.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $31,891.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.69 percent (operating margin 9.16 percent and the net profit margin finally 4.98 percent). COP was bought by 3 investment guru's.


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 14.76 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 34.69 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.59 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $9.15. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.64 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 6.16, P/S ratio 0.36 and P/B ratio 1.41. Dividend Yield: 3.69 percent. The beta ratio is 1.14.


Long-Term Stock History Chart Of ConocoPhillips (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividends History of ConocoPhillips (COP) (Click to enlarge)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) (Click to enlarge)


Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with biggest guru buys over the past sixmonth. The average P/E ratio amounts to 21.72. Exactly 70 companies pay dividends. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.37 percent. P/S ratio is 2.63 and P/B ratio 3.33.

Here is the full list of the best guru buys:

Symbol
Stock
%
Buys
Hold Price*
ORCL
Oracle Corp.
0.327
10
$27.59
HPQ
Hewlett-Packard
0.13
10
$25.09
GOOG
Google Inc.
0.154
9
$643.93
GLW
Corning Inc.
0.066
9
$13.59
AAPL
Apple Inc.
0.266
7
$462.65
MET
MetLife Inc.
0.159
7
$34.85
BRK.B
Berkshire Hathaway CL B
0.356
6
$76.59
CL
Colgate-Palmolive
0.11
6
$96.63
V
Visa Inc.
0.056
6
$101.40
SCHW
Charles Schwab
0.054
6
$12.26
C
Citigroup Inc.
0.211
5
$28.57
PG
Procter & Gamble
0.187
5
$67.01
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
0.111
5
$65.74
DV
DeVRY Inc.
0.077
5
$33.86
MSFT
Microsoft Corp.
0.072
5
$29.27
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
0.071
5
$42.16
PM
Philip Morris Intl.
0.029
5
$82.29
ZMH
Zimmer Holdings
0.023
5
$60.51
SYY
Sysco Corp.
0.124
4
$29.70
FBHS
Fortune Brands Home & Security
0.118
4
$17.85
JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
0.111
4
$41.76
RDS.A
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
0.086
4
$55.48
BAC
Bank of America Corp.
0.084
4
$7.70
WFC
Wells Fargo
0.082
4
$29.20
APA
Apache Corp.
0.077
4
$93.65
AFL
AFLAC Inc.
0.069
4
$44.67
BEN
Franklin Resources
0.069
4
$105.09
GS
Goldman Sachs Group
0.066
4
$107.09
HSP
Hospira Inc.
0.065
4
$36.03
LOW
Lowe's Cos.
0.062
4
$28.90
CHK
Chesapeake Energy
0.059
4
$22.57
SPLS
Staples Inc.
0.039
4
$15.18
APOL
Apollo Group
0.036
4
$43.17
STT
State Street Corp.
0.035
4
$43.01
UTX
United Technologies
0.034
4
$79.93
TMO
Thermo Fisher Scientific
0.032
4
$51.17
COV
Covidien Plc.
0.024
4
$49.36
MMM
3M Co.
0.018
4
$86.39
MA
Mastercard Inc.
0.015
4
$374.08
INTC
Intel Corp.
0.015
4
$24.92
CSCO
Cisco Systems
0.014
4
$20.30
PCLN
Priceline.com Inc.
0.147
3
$599.78
DELL
Dell Inc.
0.116
3
$15.34
NTRS
Northern Trust Corp.
0.082
3
$47.19
PEP
PepsiCo Inc.
0.082
3
$66.35
AVP
Avon Products
0.066
3
$19.36
RIMM
Research In Motion Ltd.
0.051
3
$14.51
SNY
Sanofi Aventis
0.049
3
$37.79
CTAS
Cintas Corp.
0.034
3
$35.64
WSH
Willis Group Holdings Plc
0.034
3
$38.81
ETR
Entergy Corp.
0.033
3
$67.87
NVS
Novartis AG
0.03
3
$56.04
WU
Western Union Co.
0.03
3
$17.80
MDT
Medtronic Inc.
0.028
3
$38.79
TEL
TE Connectivity
0.028
3
$33.64
KO
Coca Cola Co.
0.028
3
$71.41
GE
General Electric
0.027
3
$19.26
LVS
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
0.026
3
$44.72
COP
ConocoPhillips
0.024
3
$73.69
CTRP
Ctrip.com International Ltd.
0.022
3
$22.80
STJ
St Jude Medical
0.021
3
$44.31
VOD
Vodafone Group PLC
0.02
3
$27.67
NTAP
NetApp Inc.
0.017
3
$38.11
WAG
Walgreen Co.
0.016
3
$33.42
BRK.A
Berkshire Hathaway CL A
0.011
3
$115531.59
USB
U.S. Bancorp
0.009
3
$28.31
LDL
Lydall Inc.
0.003
3
$9.12
CSC
Computer Sciences Corp.
0.002
3
$29.94
WMT
Wal-Mart Stores
0.002
3
$60.22
BEAM
Beam Inc.
0.28
2
$51.23
DTV
DIRECTV Group Inc.
0.169
2
$42.76
BSX
Boston Scientific
0.151
2
$5.40
TXN
Texas Instruments
0.105
2
$30.70
AMZN
Amazon Corp.
0.092
2
$202.51
DLPH
Delphi Automotive plc
0.088
2
$20.65
BCR
Bard (C.R.) Inc.
0.085
2
$98.72
NWS
News Corp. CL B
0.072
2
$18.18
ADBE
Adobe Systems
0.069
2
$32.37
VRX
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int'l
0.063
2
$46.69
BX
The Blackstone Group
0.061
2
$15.94
CLX
Clorox Co.
0.06
2
N/A
XRX
Xerox Corp.
0.058
2
$7.98
GRPN
Groupon Inc.
0.05
2
$18.38
CTSH
Cognizant Technology Solutions
0.05
2
$73.23
WMS
WMS Industries
0.048
2
$20.53
IVZ
Invesco Plc
0.046
2
$22.73
MRVL
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
0.046
2
$14.59
VAR
Varian Medical Systems
0.045
2
$67.85
FMX
Fomento Economico Mexicano
0.043
2
$80.98
IDCC
InterDigital Inc.
0.041
2
N/A
PRDSF
PRADA SPA
0.039
2
N/A
NWSA
News Corp.
0.037
2
$18.99
Y
Alleghany Corp.
0.037
2
$287.56
LMCA
Liberty Media Capital
0.037
2
$78.05
RIG
Transocean Inc.
0.035
2
N/A
WLP
WellPoint Inc.
0.035
2
$69.48
DVN
Devon Energy Corp.
0.033
2
$66.95
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
0.032
2
N/A
NEM
Newmont Mining Corp. (Hldg. Co.)
0.029
2
$60.53
CA
CA Inc.
0.028
2
$25.37


Here are the market ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
BX
The Blackstone Group
N/A
5.02
1.42
6.49%
VOD
Vodafone Group plc
12.42
1.92
1.05
5.25%
ETR
Entergy Corporation
12.42
1.05
1.26
5.06%
SNY
Sanofi
13.44
2.21
1.36
4.60%
NVS
Novartis AG
15.54
2.14
2.12
4.50%
AVP
Avon Products Inc.
18.15
0.82
5.93
4.26%
CA
CA Technologies
14.52
2.62
2.21
3.79%
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
17.88
2.75
3.11
3.75%
SYY
Sysco Corp.
14.82
0.41
3.6
3.74%
COP
ConocoPhillips
7.83
0.36
1.41
3.69%
PG
Procter & Gamble Co.
18.72
2.06
2.73
3.53%
GE
General Electric Company
16.05
1.44
1.73
3.47%
PM
Philip Morris International, Inc.
17.8
1.97
N/A
3.44%
CLX
The Clorox Company
17.31
1.71
N/A
3.42%
PEP
Pepsico, Inc.
16.38
1.56
4.57
3.12%
WSH
Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company
16.28
1.84
2.37
2.96%
INTC
Intel Corporation
12.03
2.63
3.04
2.96%
NEM
Newmont Mining Corp.
49.12
2.28
1.83
2.94%
AFL
AFLAC Inc.
8.95
0.9
1.54
2.93%
SPLS
Staples, Inc.
11
0.43
1.53
2.86%
CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation
N/A
0.27
1.36
2.85%
JPM
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
9.55
2.71
0.87
2.79%
IVZ
Invesco Ltd.
15.33
2.72
1.36
2.78%
WMT
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
12.98
0.45
2.82
2.70%
KO
The Coca-Cola Company
20.24
3.66
5.25
2.67%
MMM
3M Co.
14.75
2.08
3.73
2.64%
WFC
Wells Fargo & Company
11.48
3.6
1.22
2.63%
WAG
Walgreen Co.
11.97
0.41
2.04
2.57%
MDT
Medtronic, Inc.
12.36
2.46
2.32
2.54%
NTRS
Northern Trust Corporation
18.87
8.18
1.59
2.52%
CL
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
19.75
2.79
20.66
2.51%
MSFT
Microsoft Corporation
11.64
3.68
3.92
2.50%
USB
U.S. Bancorp
12.33
4.8
1.7
2.42%
STJ
St. Jude Medical Inc.
15.61
2.16
2.75
2.38%
UTX
United Technologies Corp.
14.32
1.3
3.3
2.35%
FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
9.55
3.12
0.97
2.25%
XRX
Xerox Corp.
8.64
0.46
0.83
2.19%
WU
Western Union Co.
9.57
2.01
11.71
2.18%
TXN
Texas Instruments Inc.
20.61
2.71
3.3
2.13%
GLW
Corning Inc.
8.97
2.77
1.02
2.09%
STT
State Street Corp.
12.46
7.61
1.12
2.08%
MET
MetLife, Inc.
5.49
0.54
0.65
2.05%
TEVA
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
14.81
2.36
1.94
2.05%
TEL
TE Connectivity Ltd.
13.36
1.11
2.03
1.97%
HPQ
Hewlett-Packard Company
8.75
0.39
1.25
1.94%
CHK
Chesapeake Energy Corporation
8.34
1.05
0.73
1.90%
LVS
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
29.36
4.05
5.17
1.80%
LOW
Lowe's Companies Inc.
22.16
0.75
2.36
1.78%
WLP
WellPoint Inc.
9.33
0.37
0.96
1.70%
SCHW
The Charles Schwab Corporation
21.64
3.89
2.23
1.68%
COV
Covidien plc
14.05
2.28
2.61
1.63%
GS
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
16.98
1.63
0.88
1.60%
CSCO
Cisco Systems, Inc.
15.75
2.42
2.2
1.59%
FMX
Fomento Econ
203.15
11.4
27.73
1.49%
BEAM
Beam, Inc.
67.6
3.86
2.16
1.44%
IDCC
InterDigital, Inc.
16.6
4.23
2.73
1.44%
CTAS
Cintas Corporation
18.13
1.25
2.31
1.38%
DVN
Devon Energy Corporation
13.67
2.47
1.32
1.15%
ZMH
Zimmer Holdings, Inc.
15.27
2.49
1.97
1.14%
TMO
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
20.09
1.69
1.34
0.93%
DV
DeVry, Inc.
10.61
0.99
1.52
0.93%
NWSA
News Corp.
15.56
1.42
1.77
0.87%
BEN
Franklin Resources Inc.
14.59
3.8
3.28
0.86%
ORCL
Oracle Corporation
15.47
3.96
3.41
0.82%
BCR
CR Bard Inc.
26.04
2.84
4.69
0.77%
V
Visa, Inc.
32.45
10.53
3.66
0.72%
APA
Apache Corp.
8.34
2.18
1.27
0.71%
BAC
Bank of America Corporation
N/A
1.37
0.38
0.49%
MA
Mastercard Incorporated
30.48
8.17
9.78
0.27%
C
Citigroup, Inc.
9.2
1.34
0.53
0.12%
BSX
Boston Scientific Corporation
18.41
1.19
0.79
N/A
APOL
Apollo Group Inc.
7.77
0.94
3.92
N/A
AMZN
Amazon.com Inc.
190.08
2.03
14.36
N/A
AAPL
Apple Inc.
14.24
3.84
5.33
N/A
ADBE
Adobe Systems Inc.
21.51
3.93
2.78
N/A
FBHS
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.
N/A
1.08
1.67
N/A
CTRP
Ctrip.com International Ltd.
19.35
5.62
2.79
N/A
CTSH
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
25.73
3.65
5.62
N/A
DELL
Dell Inc.
8.71
0.46
3.24
N/A
DLPH
Delphi Automotive PLC
8.43
0.62
4.66
N/A
DTV
DIRECTV, Inc.
14.16
1.22
N/A
N/A
MRVL
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
15.32
2.57
1.75
N/A
NTAP
NetApp, Inc.
25.89
2.37
3.48
N/A
PCLN
priceline.com Incorporated
36.84
8.7
14.72
N/A
RIG
Transocean Ltd.
N/A
1.93
1.12
N/A
RIMM
Research In Motion Limited
6.44
0.41
0.74
N/A
HSP
Hospira Inc.
N/A
1.43
1.97
N/A
GOOG
Google Inc.
18.33
4.93
3.19
N/A
GRPN
Groupon, Inc.
N/A
4.29
9.83
N/A
LDL
Lydall Inc.
19.54
0.47
1.12
N/A
LMCA
Liberty Capital Group
12.71
3.53
2.03
N/A
VAR
Varian Medical Systems Inc.
18.07
2.64
4.94
N/A
Y
Alleghany Corp.
11.18
2.73
1
N/A
WMS
WMS Industries Inc.
26.35
1.9
1.61
N/A
VRX
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
113.53
6.73
4.26
N/A






Average
21.72
2.63
3.33
2.37%


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