100 Guru Stock Buy List | The Most Bought Stocks

100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Covering investment professionals does make sense to get inspired. I look at Warren Buffett’s investment choices. Guru stock buys are only one point of hundreds in the selection process of an investment target.

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 also talk about investors like George Soros. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.

Today I create a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six months and rank them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all combined bought 571 stocks within the recent half year.

The most wanted stock was Berkshire Hathaway. The company was bought by 14 investment professionals over the recent six months. Microsoft and AIG were also very popular with 13 and 12 guru buys.

69 stocks from the list pay dividends and 68 have a buy or better recommendation.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 13, 2012

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 ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 13, 2012. In total, 23 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TICC Capital Corp.	TICC	415.17M	6.02	1.02	6.49	11.54%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.55B	306.86	1.73	7.98	4.10%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	137.38B	20.54	2.47	2.87	3.81%
Western Union Co.	WU	7.89B	6.58	6.92	1.39	3.78%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	6.23B	24.90	4.39	4.08	3.48%
Gazit-Globe, Ltd.	GZT	1.98B	8.96	0.91	1.00	3.42%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	1.73B	13.06	0.62	0.79	3.10%
DDR Corp.	DDR	4.82B	-	1.45	6.13	3.08%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.48B	15.60	4.10	1.59	2.99%
ACE Limited	ACE	27.15B	10.17	1.01	1.53	2.45%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	781.36M	15.51	3.44	1.44	2.41%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.83B	53.99	-	6.66	2.36%
Methanex Corp.	MEOH	2.96B	23.26	2.09	1.11	2.31%
Telephone & Data Systems	TDS	2.36B	21.14	0.60	0.44	2.17%
Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.	GSM	1.14B	41.11	2.28	1.56	1.64%
Home Bancshares	HOMB	928.15M	15.64	1.83	5.34	1.57%
DSW Inc.	DSW	2.93B	20.72	3.41	1.35	1.10%
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	TMO	23.51B	20.79	1.54	1.90	0.92%
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.	FCNCA	1.64B	11.40	0.83	1.64	0.75%

100 Most Attractive Stocks Bought By Popular Investment Gurus

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. They all bought 594 stocks within the past half year.

The top stocks are now Berkshire Hathaway and Google. Berkshire was bought by 16 stock market professionals and Google by 15. Half of the top ten buys came from the technology sector. Investors still love this field because of the high growth potential and strong cash flows. But technology stocks are no big dividend payer. That’s why I did not invest much of my private wealth in technology stocks. That’s a bad strategy because if you want to have growth, the sector is one of the safest bets for the time being.

The Best Dividend Stocks from the Business Service Industry To Buy Now

The Best Yielding Shares from the Business Services Sector Originally At “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. An interesting industry is in my view the business services industry. Nearly 100 companies are related to the sector of which only 30 pay dividends to its shareholders. The total capitalization of the sector amounts to $7.25 trillion. The average dividend yield within the industry amounts to 25.4 and the yield reach 1.1 percent.

I like the industry because of the high profit margins, which corresponds at 10.20 percent and is one of the highest values in the sector. The most known stocks are Visa (V), MasterCard (MA) and Moody’s (MCO). Business service is often financial networked.

I made a screen of the best yielding stocks within the business services industry. In order to reduce the huge amount of 30 dividend paying business service stocks, I selected only those with double-digit earnings per share growth. As a result, sixteen stocks remain of which market analysts trust in eleven companies and recommend them to buy now.

5 Of The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (Oct 29 – Nov 04, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 49 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 24 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 19.91 percent. Exactly 19 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent (high yield); 25 above three percent. 35 companies are currently recommended to buy.

The biggest dividend hike came from the beverage and softdrink company Cott (COT) and he savings and loans stock Capital Federal Finl (CFFN). Both increased their dividend distributions by 140 percent.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Between September 17 - 23, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on September 17-23, 2012. In total, 78 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 41 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.83%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency	AGNC	8.77	1.22	7.34	13.70%
Total SA	TOT	8.86	1.35	0.57	5.54%
Xcel Energy	XEL	16.27	1.60	1.34	3.84%
General Electric	GE	17.83	1.94	1.61	3.08%
Kraft Foods	KFT	19.77	1.95	1.31	2.91%
Equity Residential	EQR	172.09	3.08	8.59	2.24%
Omnicom Group	OMC	15.82	4.38	1.02	2.22%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	12.79	1.30	1.49	2.16%
Las Vegas Sands	LVS	27.02	4.36	3.74	2.14%
Western Union	WU	9.80	10.98	2.03	2.09%

100 Most Bought Stocks By Big Investment Gurus

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. They all bought 577 stocks within the past half year.

The top stocks are Google (GOOG) and Oracle (ORCL). The information internet provider was bought by seventeen investment gurus and the business software company by sixteen. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and forty 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.

Robert E. Torray – Torray Q4/2011 Portfolio

Robert E. Torray – Torray Q4/2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Robert E. Torray’s - Torray - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 31 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 312,126,000.

The Best Dividend Stocks From The Service Sector

Services Dividend Stocks With High Return On Investments And Big Operating Margins Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Service is characterized by hard work and low margins but there are some companies with wonderful business models that generate double digit margins within the service sector. I think about McDonalds or Starbucks. They created a huge shareholder value due to the global expansion of the brand and realized big economies of scale.

I screened the service sector by stocks with an operating margin and return on investment over 15 percent, a dividend yield over two percent and finally a market capitalization over USD 300 million. Thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which four are high yields and six are recommended to buy or better.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth February 2012

Shares With Highest Dividend Growth by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies with fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy. They give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business. In total, 77 stocks increased dividends of which 46 raised dividends by more than 10 percent.

The average dividend yield amounts to 3.05 percent and the dividend growth is 37.49.

David A. Katz - Matrix Advisors Value Fund Portfolio Q4/2011

David A. Katz Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of David A. Katz’s - Matrix Advisors Value - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 35 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 75,881,000.

Mark Hillman - Hillman Focused Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

Mark Hillman - Hillman Focused Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Mark Hillman - Hillman Focused - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 20 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 11,411,000.

Mark Hillman’s fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
RTN - Raytheon Co.	5.77	Buy	$48.38
GE - General Electric	5.65	0	$17.92
PFE - Pfizer Inc.	5.36	Reduce 23.31%	$21.63
XOM - Exxon Mobil Corp.	5.35	Reduce 11.11%	$84.72
AAPL - Apple Inc.	5.33	Reduce 16.67%	$405.33
BAC - Bank of America Corp.	5.27	Add 104.73%	$5.56
WU - Western Union Co.	5.21	Reduce 9.19%	$18.25
T - AT&T Inc.	5.19	Reduce 16.24%	$30.20
MSFT - Microsoft Corp.	5.16	Reduce 9.56%	$25.95
DD - Du Pont (E.I.)	5.14	0	$45.78
BA - Boeing Co.	5.14	Reduce 15.79%	$73.38
GS - Goldman Sachs Group	5.07	Add 39.13%	$90.47
JNJ - Johnson & Johnson	5	Reduce 20.91%	$65.52
AXP - American Express	5	Reduce 15.38%	$47.19
CSCO - Cisco Systems	4.88	Reduce 15.38%	$18.08
JPM - JPMorgan Chase & Co.	4.86	0	$33.23
RIG - Transocean Inc.	4.85	Add 54.84%	$38.40
IR - Ingersoll-Rand Plc	4.29	0	$30.43
GLW - Corning Inc.	3.88	0	$12.99
HPQ - Hewlett-Packard	3.59	0	$25.79

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