Warren Buffett's 20 Best Performing Stocks Year-To-Date

Warren Buffett is among the best investors in stock market history, and millions of people follow his picks closely to try to find ideas for their own portfolios.

Even though the overall stock market hasn't made much headway so far in 2016, the Oracle of Omaha has managed to include some solid year-to-date performers within his own holdings, as Buffett recently reported to the SEC on Form 13-F.

In particular, four of Buffett's stocks have given investors strong double-digit returns in 2016, and shareholders want to know if the Buffett magic will continue.

Let's take a look at these 20 best performing top stocks from the Buffett Portfolio Year-to-date...

These Countries Offer The Highest Dividend Yield For Equity Investors

Source: The Dividend Signal Uncovering Global Growth Opportunities,
Salient Partners,
Dividend.com,
Bloomberg

19 Jason Fieber Stock Holdings I Would Love To Buy Now!

I'm a great fan of Jason Fiber (Dividend Mantra) and his investment philosophy. For me, he is the real Warren Buffett. I also study his investments he makes.

He is a very income focused stock investor with focus on high-quality and growing stock dividends. In addition, he looks for stocks with price appreciation potential. I love to see in which stocks he put his money. Sometimes, we have the same idea at the same time.

As of June 1, 2016, Jason is invested in 98 companies valued at $295,550.27. Please note that daily and monthly market gyrations will obviously skew the figures below and the weights have been rounded up/down accordingly, so the total may not add up to a perfect 100%.

Attached you will find his latest portfolio overview. In order to keep the information on a simple way, I only published his stock holdings weight and current yield of the stock.

Here is his portfolio overview...

16 Canadian Dividend Aristocrats For Global Diversification

Dividend aristocrats, as defined by Standard and Poor’s, are stocks that meet certain size and liquidity standards that “have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least five years.”

That's a much easier rule to fulfill compared the US Dividend Aristocrats Index for which you need a 25 year consecutive dividend hike.

Today I like to share a sample of 16 S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats with you, a premier group of Canadian stocks that have increased their cash dividends for at least five consecutive years.

Below is the list for 2016 sorted by dividend yield. If you like to receive more dividend yield tables of the best long-term dividend raiser, you should subscribe to my blog news by following the link, it's completely free and independent. Thank you for reading.

These are the results...

12 Best REITs With Solid Fundamentals To Finance Profitable Growth

Owning such things as office buildings and self-storage facilities, real estate investment trusts rake in rents and must pay at least 90 percent of their taxable income to shareholders. 

As long as they can keep raising rents and dividend payments, the stocks should fare well. 

Indeed, REITs’ underlying properties should post a 4.5 percent average gain in operating income this year, fueling dividend growth in the “high single-digit” range, says investment firm Lazard, and yields in the range of 2 percent to 6 percent.

Attached you will find a selection of Reits with Return on Assests over 5 percent and solid debt ratios. 

This is in my view the best way to discover stocks with potential for profitable growth in the future.

Here are the results...

14 Best Growing Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 50 stocks in the S&P 500 Index that have increased their dividend payments for at least 25 consecutive years, a sign of impressive profitability, financial strength, and management's confidence in the business.

Looking at each of the 50 dividend aristocrats on the list today here are the top 10 dividend stocks that could be the most successful companies over the next decade and beyond.

I've made the effort for you to screen the Dividend Aristocrats list by those growth orientated companies. Each of the following stocks has grown sales in the past five years by more than 5 percent while earnings are expected to grow by more than 5 percent in the next five years.

Exactly 14 Dividend Aristocrats fulfilled these tight growth criteria of which 6 pay a dividend over 2 percent, calculated on the current trading price.

These are the best Dividend Aristocrats by growth...

15 Large Cap Cash Machines With Big And Safe Dividends

To identify companies with hefty yields that are “safe”—that is, the dividends are unlikely to be trimmed—We screened the S&P for stocks yielding at least 3%.

We excluded energy and mining companies and other outfits tied to commodity prices, as the recent bear market in commodities makes further dividend cuts likely, even though oil has begun to rebound.

We also screened for companies whose free-cash-flow yield—free cash flow divided by stock price—exceeds their dividend yield. 

Free cash, which is what’s left after a company makes all of the necessary investments to run its business, is an important measure of stability and potential growth, as well as the source of dividend payments. 

The more of it, the better—and the more likely a company is to maintain and, better yet, grow its payout.

These results apeared on the screen:

7 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

In the stock market, value often is in the eye of the beholder. At a time when many stocks seem overpriced in light of a tepid global economy and anemic growth in revenues and profits, we went hunting for businesses that offer value in ways that may not be evident from their price-earnings ratios.

To make the initial cut, companies had to show higher operating earnings in the first quarter of the calendar year than in the same period in 2015—a sign that the basic business was improving despite the disappointing economy.

To make it easy for my readers, I concentrated my research on the best dividend growth stocks and used the Dividend Aristocrats Index to start the search of high-quality dividend stocks.

I screened the index by the cheapest stocks in terms of forward P/E. It's always a good way to find cheaply valuated stocks which are not affected by current, short-term accounting issues.

Here are the results...