The Latest Stock Buys And Sells From Bill Gates

Bill Gates and his latest stock buys and sells originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to introduce you the latest stock buys and sells from Bill Gates.

Bill Gates is not only a self made billionaire who got his wealth from Microsoft. He is a much more diversified guy as you might think. A few years earlier, Bill Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has a current portfolio value of around USD 17.8 billion.

The trust owns only 21 stocks of which around half of the value comes from the incurance company led by Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. 

Financial service is a big theme for Bill Gates. Other important industries he prefers are defensive consumer stocks and industrials. All three sectors combined represent around 80.7 percent of Bill Gates's full asset allocation.

Bill Gates has a similar investment style like his friend Warren Buffett. He is a passive long-term investor but with some different ideas and views about stocks and earnings growth. Why should it be otherwise? He’s a old tech guy.

Last Quarter, Bill Gates made only one stock purchase and sold six companies. Five of them were closed completely. The biggest impact had the reduction of the current Berkshire stake which impacted his portfolio by 3.59 percent.

Five of his seven portfolio moves pay dividends.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 02, 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 May 02, 2013. In total, 6 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 1.41%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Centrais Electricas Brasileiras	EBR	3.63B	-	0.11	0.22	22.95%
Southern Company	SO	42.00B	20.52	2.29	2.50	4.21%
Federated National Holding	FNHC	57.84M	11.00	0.87	0.88	1.68%
Fomento Econ	FMX	40.57B	263.70	36.46	2.94	1.23%
National Security Group Inc.	NSEC	20.20M	-	0.67	0.34	1.22%
Peoples Federal Bancshares	PEOP	123.34M	81.13	1.14	6.11	0.86%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 April 29 - May 03, 2013. In total, 81 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 34 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.59%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	19.44B	25.26	1.49	1.27	4.73%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	40.54B	10.55	1.43	3.08	4.63%
Barclays PLC	BCS	58.27B	-	0.68	1.72	4.58%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	12.48B	14.78	6.79	2.54	4.36%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	14.56B	16.70	7.74	2.95	4.26%
Southern Company	SO	41.76B	17.96	2.15	2.53	4.09%
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.	PAA	19.15B	23.74	2.88	0.51	4.04%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.85B	11.70	2.26	2.19	3.85%
ABB Ltd.	ABB	53.01B	19.41	3.11	1.35	3.14%
Ford Motor Co.	F	53.71B	9.63	3.38	0.40	2.93%
Credit Suisse Group	CS	43.76B	32.30	0.97	1.85	2.74%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	66.94B	11.87	1.91	1.62	2.51%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	73.29B	13.22	2.10	2.98	2.12%
TD Ameritrade Holding	AMTD	10.73B	18.43	2.43	4.05	1.84%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	25.49B	13.39	1.94	2.52	1.67%
Fastenal Company	FAST	14.68B	34.12	8.95	4.63	1.62%
Brookfield Asset Management	BAM	21.60B	19.13	1.10	1.16	1.60%
Petroleo Brasileiro	PBR-A	126.10B	12.16	0.75	0.91	1.24%
Fomento Econ	FMX	40.97B	266.28	36.82	2.97	1.22%
The AES Corporation	AES	10.05B	-	2.20	0.55	1.19%

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