Bill Ackman’s Highest Yielding Dividend Stock Bets And His Complete Portfolio

Bill Ackman’s latest portfolio transactions and his biggest positions originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some of you might know Bill Ackman because of the phone battle against Carl Icahn on CNBC. He is an activist with around USD 10 billion in assets under management. In his management company “Pershing Square Capital” he has only 10 stock holdings.

As an activist, Ackman tries to increase pressure on the management of a company in order to implement own visions of the company’s future. Nearly half of his positions have voting rights over 10 percent.

His main investment focus is on defensive stocks from the consumer and industrial sector. Around 70 percent of his exposure is related to these two sectors.

Below is a small list of Bill Ackman’s latest Portfolio transactions. He is a lazy guy. Last quarter, he bought only one stock and he needed more than a year to complete his latest 20 transactions.

From his 20 latest transactions are 12 unique positions of which 10 pay dividends. Dividend payments are not in focus of Ackman’s investment strategy. Only one company yields above the 3 percent mark.

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q4/2011 Portfolio

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Bill Ackman’s - Pershing Square Capital Management - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 10 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 7,765,656,000. Bill made major changes within the recent quarter. He bought Beam (BEAM) and Fortune Brands (FBHS). Finally, he added Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). His biggest sale was Fortune Brands (FO).

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q3-2011 Portfolio

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q3-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Bill Ackman’s - Pershing Square Capital Management - portfolio movements as of Q3/2011 (September 30, 2011). In total, he has 10 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 6,016,279,000.

Bill Ackman’s stock positions as of Q3/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
FO - Fortune Brands Inc.	18.71	Add 21.25%	$54.08
JCP - Penney (J.C.)	17.23	0	$26.78
GGP - Genl Growth Properties	14.53	0	$12.10
KFT - Kraft Foods Inc.	14.06	Add 13.28%	$33.58
C - Citigroup Inc.	11.12	Add 11.07%	$25.62
FDO - Family Dollar Stores	9.63	Add 2.65%	$50.86
LOW - Lowe's Cos.	6.83	Buy	$19.34
CP - Canadian Pacific Railway	3.23	Buy	$48.09
HHC - Howard Hughes Corp.	2.5	0	$42.10
ALEX - Alexander & Baldwin	2.16	0	$36.53

Related Stock Ticker:

FO, JCP, GGP, KFT, C, FDO, LOW, CP, HHC, ALEX

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q2-2011 Portfolio

Bill Ackman - Pershing Square Capital Management Q2-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Bill Ackman’s - Pershing Square Capital Management - portfolio movements as of Q2/2011 (June 30, 2011). In total, he held 9 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 6,393,657,000.

Bill Ackman’s - Pershing Square Capital Management - positions as of Q2/2011 with actual share movements:

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Related Stock Ticker:

C, FDO, JCP, FO, GGP, KFT, HHC, ALEX, GLRE, CXW,