Dodge & Cox fund investing strategies originally
published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dodge & Cox fund
is a real equity based investment vehicle with around USD 81.3 billion in
assets under management.
The investment firm was founded in 1930, by Van
Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox. With this long history in background, there is also a long
performance review available.
Over the recent years, the fund’s performance
suffered a bit. There was a small underperformance of 2.7 percent over the recent
three years and 9.2 percent over the past five years. The excess gain to the
S&P 500 over the longer term was also small with up to 2.9 percent at the peak
(15 years).
They own in total 163 companies of which two were recently new in the fund. Kraft Foods Group and Abbvie are the two names.
Dodge & Cox have a real focus on financial, healthcare
and technology stocks. More than half of their funds (59.9 percent) are
invested in these three stock categories. The biggest impact on the buy side had the
technology sector which is now net 0.7 percentage points bigger compared to the previous quarter.
Dodge & Cox have a dividend focus and they like
large capitalized stocks. From their 20 biggest stock buys and sells in Q1/13 pay 17 a solid
dividend and 17 have a valuation over USD 10 billion. Hewlett Packard is the biggest
holding, worth around USD 4 billion. The latest big stock increases are up 26.03
percent year-to-date.