Bruce Berkowitz’s Latest Stock Buys And His Full Portfolio Holdings

Bruce Berkowitz’s Fund Portfolio Strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Bruce Berkowitz is also a well known guru investor. He is a hedge fund manager who cares about $7.69 billion in his asset management vehicle Fairholme Capital Management.

Within the recent quarter, Bruce made nine asset transactions of which six pay dividends. Four of the stock moves are attributable to the long side and five are on the short side.

In total, Bruce owns now only 13 share positions of which two were completely new (Lincoln National and Hartford Financial). In addition, he sold-out three stocks within the recent quarter. 

Financial stocks dominate his asset strategy. Around 68 percent of his total assets have a relationship to the financial sector.

The biggest position is his portfolio is reasonable to the insurer, AIG who represents around 50 percent of his full portfolio.

Nothing changed much in sum. Bruce made no big changes within the recent quarter. The highest trade impact on the long side had the 4.53 percent position increase of Sears Holdings.

13 Cheap High Beta Basic Material Dividend Stocks

Cheap high beta dividend stocks from the basic material sector originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material sector is under fire. Nobody wants to go long on raw material producer or related industries. The fear of a slowing growth in China with the result of cheaper commodity prices is still aware.

The whole sector is down 3.1 percent over the recent six months while the best sector gained 17.9 percent during the same period. So many stocks can be bought for a single P/E within the sector but the risk is still high.

Today I would like to proceed my monthly screening serial about high beta dividend stocks. The basic material sector has a huge base of stock ideas on this field. In order to get the best results, I need to increase my limitations like this:

- Market capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Forward P/E below 15

- 5Y future earnings per share growth over 15 percent yearly

- Beta ratio over 1

Thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which one is a High-Yield. All results have a current buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 11, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks July 11, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.78%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	1.48B	5.53	0.54	4.01	19.22%
Fifth Street Finance Corp.	FSC	1.14B	10.13	1.08	5.99	10.71%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	723.46M	60.66	5.72	1.28	8.52%
Associated Estates Realty Corp.	AEC	818.46M	126.85	2.03	4.50	4.61%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	26.26B	9.00	1.46	1.46	4.52%
Mid-America Apartment Comm.	MAA	2.87B	42.41	3.08	5.59	4.10%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.86B	15.21	2.95	2.25	4.01%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	68.79B	12.78	23.29	3.71	3.69%
AuRico Gold Inc.	AUQ	1.18B	-	0.59	6.06	3.51%
City Holding Co.	CHCO	655.59M	17.36	1.79	5.57	3.49%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	4.74B	9.94	2.06	0.43	3.40%
Harsco Corporation	HSC	1.99B	-	2.42	0.66	3.32%
Rouse Properties, Inc.	RSE	999.96M	-	2.01	4.21	2.57%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.76B	-	1.09	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.50B	70.90	2.41	2.52	1.61%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.60B	15.91	8.12	2.30	1.47%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.82B	10.78	1.32	0.73	1.42%
Ryland Group Inc.	RYL	1.78B	30.31	3.29	1.21	0.31%

Next Week's Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between July 08 - 14,2013. In total, 75 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.37%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	197.53B	27.99	2.24	1.56	5.02%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	25.97B	8.91	1.45	1.44	4.57%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.58B	14.82	3.00	2.20	4.13%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	147.03B	128.25	4.41	1.26	4.02%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	67.84B	12.60	22.97	3.66	3.75%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	33.04B	15.59	3.16	3.99	3.67%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.80B	18.03	4.53	1.82	3.10%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	22.44B	18.45	3.38	1.87	2.44%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.82B	-	2.23	7.37	2.40%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.61B	22.75	14.22	2.43	1.87%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.70B	-	1.08	1.03	1.66%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	54.78B	71.27	2.42	2.54	1.60%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	13.90B	28.09	2.95	2.19	1.55%
Gap Inc.	GPS	20.09B	16.85	6.36	1.26	1.39%
Aetna Inc.	AET	20.50B	12.93	1.92	0.55	1.28%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	10.53B	8.60	0.71	0.90	1.23%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.58B	23.52	5.20	4.18	1.09%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	146.03B	13.80	3.27	3.93	0.77%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.64B	25.52	3.34	4.19	0.52%