Dodge & Cox's Latest Dividend Stock Buys And Income Holdings

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.

Next Week's Top Yielding 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 June 17 - 23, 2013. In total, 58 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 31 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.94%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Total SA	TOT	119.07B	10.08	1.17	0.50	5.47%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.90B	32.48	2.09	2.29	4.91%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	14.63B	15.01	1.59	1.42	3.81%
Iron Mountain Inc.	IRM	5.52B	37.09	4.95	1.84	3.73%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.58B	19.08	2.25	2.21	3.63%
Portland General Electric	POR	2.33B	16.54	1.33	1.29	3.57%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.55B	15.50	1.30	1.79	3.53%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	3.12B	33.46	2.16	1.55	3.34%
Safeway Inc.	SWY	5.87B	9.98	1.96	0.13	3.28%
Greif, Inc.	GEF	2.54B	20.08	1.90	0.60	3.13%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.26B	23.37	9.83	1.64	3.08%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	5.70B	26.01	3.08	2.30	3.07%
Pinnacle Foods Inc.	PF	2.81B	40.90	2.29	1.14	2.89%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.90B	47.87	5.27	11.14	2.76%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	15.58B	20.70	2.88	2.26	2.68%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	46.56B	29.24	6.36	3.99	2.48%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	22.37B	13.66	1.40	1.63	2.04%
International Game Technology	IGT	4.49B	16.75	3.68	1.96	1.86%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	9.63B	23.08	3.63	2.49	1.80%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	4.39B	18.05	3.03	2.34	1.71%

Best Ex-Dividend Paying Stocks For Monday June 17, 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 June 17, 2013. In total, 8 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.63%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Gladstone Land Corporation	LAND	107.29M	74.68	1.82	31.65	8.76%
Gladstone Investment	GAIN	194.63M	10.97	0.81	6.37	8.16%
Gladstone Commercial Corp.	GOOD	219.46M	-	1.80	4.12	7.81%
Navios Maritime Acquisition	NNA	322.70M	-	0.83	2.14	5.71%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.59B	15.58	1.31	1.80	3.51%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.28B	23.45	9.86	1.64	3.07%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	15.67B	20.82	2.90	2.27	2.67%
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc.	SLCA	1.15B	14.82	4.60	2.50	2.30%

Harry Burn - Sound Shore Q4/2011 Portfolio

Harry Burn - Sound Shore Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Harry Burn’s - Sound Shore - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 40 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,553,526,000.