The Latest Stock Buys And Sells From Bill Gates

Bill Gates and his latest stock buys and sells originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to introduce you the latest stock buys and sells from Bill Gates.

Bill Gates is not only a self made billionaire who got his wealth from Microsoft. He is a much more diversified guy as you might think. A few years earlier, Bill Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has a current portfolio value of around USD 17.8 billion.

The trust owns only 21 stocks of which around half of the value comes from the incurance company led by Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. 

Financial service is a big theme for Bill Gates. Other important industries he prefers are defensive consumer stocks and industrials. All three sectors combined represent around 80.7 percent of Bill Gates's full asset allocation.

Bill Gates has a similar investment style like his friend Warren Buffett. He is a passive long-term investor but with some different ideas and views about stocks and earnings growth. Why should it be otherwise? He’s a old tech guy.

Last Quarter, Bill Gates made only one stock purchase and sold six companies. Five of them were closed completely. The biggest impact had the reduction of the current Berkshire stake which impacted his portfolio by 3.59 percent.

Five of his seven portfolio moves pay dividends.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 02, 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 May 02, 2013. In total, 6 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.41%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Centrais Electricas Brasileiras	EBR	3.63B	-	0.11	0.22	22.95%
Southern Company	SO	42.00B	20.52	2.29	2.50	4.21%
Federated National Holding	FNHC	57.84M	11.00	0.87	0.88	1.68%
Fomento Econ	FMX	40.57B	263.70	36.46	2.94	1.23%
National Security Group Inc.	NSEC	20.20M	-	0.67	0.34	1.22%
Peoples Federal Bancshares	PEOP	123.34M	81.13	1.14	6.11	0.86%

Next Week's 20 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 April 29 - May 03, 2013. In total, 81 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 34 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	19.44B	25.26	1.49	1.27	4.73%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.54B	10.55	1.43	3.08	4.63%
Barclays PLC	BCS	58.27B	-	0.68	1.72	4.58%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	12.48B	14.78	6.79	2.54	4.36%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	14.56B	16.70	7.74	2.95	4.26%
Southern Company	SO	41.76B	17.96	2.15	2.53	4.09%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	19.15B	23.74	2.88	0.51	4.04%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.85B	11.70	2.26	2.19	3.85%
ABB Ltd.	ABB	53.01B	19.41	3.11	1.35	3.14%
Ford Motor Co.	F	53.71B	9.63	3.38	0.40	2.93%
Credit Suisse Group	CS	43.76B	32.30	0.97	1.85	2.74%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	66.94B	11.87	1.91	1.62	2.51%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	73.29B	13.22	2.10	2.98	2.12%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.73B	18.43	2.43	4.05	1.84%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	25.49B	13.39	1.94	2.52	1.67%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.68B	34.12	8.95	4.63	1.62%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.60B	19.13	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Petroleo Brasileiro	PBR-A	126.10B	12.16	0.75	0.91	1.24%
Fomento Econ	FMX	40.97B	266.28	36.82	2.97	1.22%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.05B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%

19 Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Sector Growth

Consumer dividend stocks with highest expected growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Growth, that’s the most important factor when you trade stocks and like to make money over the long-run.

Growth is a must have but with rising growth rates, price ratios also go up. You should be careful with stocks that have a P/E ratio over 20 and a huge load of debt.

Today, I like to screen stocks from the consumer goods sector, one of my favorite investment fields. 2/3 of my personal stock holdings have a relation to the consumer area. I love those stocks especially when they are well managed and pay great dividends.

Consumer stocks are normally characterized by low cyclic stocks which produce solid returns on the invested capital. My screening criteria are:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Market Capitalization over 10 billion

- Relationship to the Consumer Goods Sector

- EPS Growth over 10 Percent for the next 5 Years

Nineteen stocks matched my criteria of which fifteen have a current buy or better ratio. Car maker and supplier of them are dominating the results. Those are also stocks with the highest beta ratios.

16 Best Growing Dividend Paying Consumer Goods Stocks

Best Dividend Stocks From The Consumer Goods Sector Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks from the consumer sector are important for the U.S. Economy. At the capital markets are 403 consumer goods stocks tradeable. The whole market capitalization of them amounts to USD 165.60 trillion. The average dividend yield has a value of 2.59 percent and the P/E ratio is 20.40.

In order to find the best dividend paying large cap growth stocks from the investment sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent and an operating margin over 10 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under one. Finally, the market capitalization should be above USD 2 billion. Sixteen consumer stocks remained of which twelve are currently recommended to buy.

100 Promising Stocks That Big Investment Gurus Bought

Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus 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 stock is Google (GOOG). The internet information provider was bought by twelve investment gurus. Thirty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and fifty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least three stock market gurus.

The Best Dividends On April 30, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks April 30, 2012. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 6 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.43 percent.

13 Consumer Dividend Stocks With A Strong Increase in Growth

Consumer Goods Dividend Stocks With Accelerated Growth Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. For the American economy, the consumer sector is one of the areas with huge importance for the economy that determines growth. Recent figures show that the sector recovers. Big winners are more likely retailer stocks that sell consumer goods products. They are part of the service sector.

In order to find some opportunities from the consumer goods sector, I screened the sector by dividend stocks with an earnings and sales growth of more than five percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than fifteen percent. Exactly thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which one is a high yield; eleven are recommended to buy.