Ken Fisher's Biggest Dividend Stock Buys And His Latest Asset Allocation

The largest dividend stocks buys from Ken Fisher as of Q1/2013 originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

Ken Fisher is an investment analyst and founder, chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments. In his asset management company he serves around USD 37.63 billion. His portfolio invested money on 474 companies; 48 of his stock holdings are completely new.

Ken has big investments within the technology sector but financial shares and consumer stocks are also very important for his asset allocation. His latest portfolio transactions show that he strengthen his technology and commodity side. He bought Cisco and Apple for the tech side and BASF, RIO Tinto, Vale and BP for his commodity bets.

Below is a list of his latest and biggest dividend stock buys as well as his most important portfolio positions.

16 of his 20 top buys from the recent quarter pay dividends and 13 are currently recommended to buy. He's a real large cap investor but has also some smaller companies. Summarized: Fisher has a very diversified portfolio.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 12, 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 12, 2013. In total, 144 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 60 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.28%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Vodafone Group plc	VOD	157.16B	229.69	1.32	2.27	6.90%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	34.59B	13.47	2.55	1.76	5.07%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	72.77B	16.77	20.47	2.97	4.86%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.10B	13.61	2.60	2.04	4.41%
Encana Corporation	ECA	13.65B	-	2.90	3.09	4.31%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	23.14B	13.52	5.99	1.88	3.76%
Teck Resources Limited	TCK	14.25B	16.06	0.79	1.43	3.54%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	22.62B	31.52	2.35	1.39	3.23%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	183.41B	21.56	5.64	3.83	2.72%
Omnicom Group Inc.	OMC	16.32B	17.29	5.14	1.14	2.54%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	ADP	33.37B	24.05	5.09	3.00	2.53%
Macy's, Inc.	M	19.15B	14.39	3.14	0.69	2.04%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	13.10B	22.24	1.97	2.23	1.97%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	15.38B	17.91	4.97	1.76	1.84%
Viacom, Inc.	VIAB	32.75B	16.39	4.77	2.51	1.78%
Eastman Chemical Co.	EMN	10.92B	20.27	3.52	1.27	1.70%
Canadian Natural Resources Limited	CNQ	31.93B	19.52	1.35	2.20	1.67%
Devon Energy Corporation	DVN	22.83B	-	1.16	2.54	1.57%
National Oilwell Varco, Inc.	NOV	30.00B	12.58	1.46	1.43	1.48%
Ingersoll-Rand Plc	IR	17.24B	17.53	2.38	1.23	1.46%

20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks And Which 11 Are Wrong

Financial dividend stocks with highest float short ratio originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Financials are in focus of many investors because they have a great possibility to leverage profits and they benefit if the economy starts to grow. 

But the whole sector is also very vulnerable for systematic risks. Due to the concatenation of many firms, a bail in of one company can hurt the whole system deeply.

This is also one of the reasons why financial stocks are very popular targets for short sellers. If there develops a rumor, it ends in a bank run.

Today I like to show you which stocks from the financial sector (excluded by ETFs) have the highest float short ratio. My only restriction is a market capitalization of more than USD 300 million.

The 20 top results have a float short ratio between 11.56 and 28.67 percent. The Insuring industry is the biggest industry followed by REITs. Despite the negative view of the investors, eleven of the results have a current buy or better recommendation.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 11, 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 11, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.58%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.41B	21.96	1.29	0.86	5.58%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.28B	22.37	1.86	10.44	5.26%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	2.76B	3.01	1.46	7.62	4.95%
Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.	YZC	4.98B	4.92	0.69	0.53	4.94%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	340.29M	19.15	4.97	1.64	3.61%
DDR Corp.	DDR	6.20B	-	1.66	7.55	3.08%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.45B	15.17	1.74	1.68	2.95%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.81B	849.67	1.81	1.16	2.71%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.53B	22.94	1.31	1.78	2.14%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	19.63B	21.50	4.78	6.31	2.01%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.11B	66.08	1.95	14.18	1.73%
PolyOne Corporation	POL	2.49B	36.32	2.86	0.83	0.96%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.44B	23.63	2.91	1.67	0.84%
HDFC Bank Ltd.	HDB	6.01B	27.80	27.03	1.04	0.74%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	2.46B	14.69	2.35	2.43	0.71%
AAON Inc.	AAON	779.52M	26.09	5.39	2.56	0.63%