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.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 29, 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 April 29, 2013. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.31%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Cheniere Energy Partners LP.	CQP	5.44B	-	6.18	20.57	6.22%
People's United Financial Inc.	PBCT	4.46B	18.26	0.86	4.36	4.87%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.42B	10.52	1.43	3.07	4.64%
Realty Income Corp.	O	8.86B	65.14	2.74	18.63	4.38%
Genesis Energy LP	GEL	3.97B	40.13	4.34	0.98	4.06%
Pinnacle West Capital	PNW	6.68B	17.36	1.68	2.02	3.59%
Hasbro Inc.	HAS	6.18B	18.88	4.09	1.51	3.35%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.79B	18.54	2.45	4.07	1.83%
City National Corp.	CYN	3.07B	14.79	1.20	3.45	1.75%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.63B	19.15	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Burger King Worldwide, Inc.	BKW	6.33B	54.73	5.39	3.22	1.33%
NRG Energy, Inc.	NRG	9.04B	12.60	0.88	1.07	1.29%
First Republic Bank	FRC	4.89B	12.85	1.41	3.76	1.27%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.04B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%
Brown & Brown Inc.	BRO	4.41B	22.88	2.37	3.58	1.17%
Casey's General Stores Inc.	CASY	2.26B	20.59	3.87	0.31	1.12%
Aon Corporation	AON	18.95B	20.50	2.46	1.65	1.03%
Zoetis Inc.	ZTS	15.77B	36.26	3.92	3.64	0.82%

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