Ken Fisher’s Biggest Dividend Stock Buys And His Latest Portfolio

Ken Fisher’s stock purchases and his portfolio overview originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I often look at the activities of the big players because some of them know what’s hot on the market. One investment guru I would like to introduce here today is Ken Fisher.

Fisher has assets of around $38 billion under management and he owns around 500 stocks of which 45 were completely new in his portfolio.

Because of the huge number of assets he own, the transaction list is very long and none of his deals had a really huge influence to his portfolio. The biggest move on the long side was the purchase of the UBS Fisher ETN “UBS Fisher Enhanced Big Cap Growth ETN”.

From his 20 biggest long transactions pay 12 a dividend.

Ken Fisher is one of the most diversified guy's I’ve ever seen. The biggest portfolio position has a share of 2.7 percent and is reasonable to the Barclays ETN FI Enhanced Global High Yield ETN. Fisher owns 3 exchange traded funds in his top 20 positions with a total weighting of around 7.1 percent.

Beside ETFs, Fisher loves the Technology sector and bets on financial services stocks. All three categories represent around 47.4 percent of his assets.

Fisher reduced technology, energy and basic material stocks within the recent quarter. On the other side, he increased stocks from the financial services sector, healthcare and defensive consumer goods sector.

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19 International Dividend Achievers With Double-Digit Earnings Growth Forecasts

International Dividend Achievers stock list with high predicted earnings per share growth for the mid-term originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth investors like you or me should always have a focus on stocks from abroad. It diversifies your portfolio and gives you more opportunities from different countries.

But you always have a currency risk if you stock is traded in a foreign currency. But you also own these risks with U.S. stocks that have a huge share of foreign sales. The corporate manages these risks for you.
Today I would like to discover my International Dividend Achievers list by stocks with the highest earnings per share growth forecast for the mid-term (5 Years). You can find a list attached about those stocks with double-digit earnings predictions by brokerage firms.

Only 19 of 55 dividend growth stocks from abroad with a dividend growth history of more than 5 consecutive years fulfilled my restrictions. Six of them still have a low forward P/E of less than 15 and eleven got a current buy or better rating. The yields are low in this environment thanks to Ben Bernanke who said that the tapering must wait until the economy improves stronger. The highest yielding stock from the list has a 3.45 percent yield.

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8 Predictable Dividend Stocks At Multi-Year Price-To-Book Value Lows

Stocks with a predictable business and historical low P/B ratios originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to use my new gurufocus screener to get new stock ideas. I always hunt for value but I don’t want to add up too much risk in my portfolio.

For sure, there is no free lunch at the market and everybody must accept a fluctuating stock price. But in my view, there are different ways to take risk. Some are natural and others are not calculable risks, created by the company or the environment in which the corporate acts.

Let’s come back to my value stock screener. I would like to try out the Low P/B Companies screener by gurufocus and I’m glad to share the top yielding results with you here.

The screener supports only stocks that have grown sales and earnings over the past decade consistently. They are somehow predictable and high-quality stocks. The screener compares the current P/B ratios with the 10-Year average values of the ratio and plots the top 25 companies with the lowest spreads.

Only eight stocks of the top 25 results have a yield over 2 percent and three of them got a buy or better rating.

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Next Week's 20 Best 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 May 27 - June 02,2013. In total, 148 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 63 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.71%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.58B	14.11	-	2.48	5.01%
Lockheed Martin Corporation	LMT	34.30B	12.35	113.89	0.73	4.30%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	19.18B	-	0.85	1.34	4.18%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	79.93B	7.73	1.58	1.98	4.14%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.95B	10.29	1.82	2.34	3.87%
Northeast Utilities	NU	13.48B	24.76	1.44	1.88	3.43%
Perusahaan Perseroan	TLK	25.07B	18.09	4.16	3.17	3.06%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	27.65B	3.80	4.01	1.02	2.74%
Kellogg Company	K	23.70B	25.47	8.38	1.62	2.73%
Corning Inc.	GLW	23.10B	13.27	1.08	2.92	2.55%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	46.66B	17.89	1.15	1.24	2.55%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	10.92B	14.83	1.12	1.19	2.47%
CSX Corp.	CSX	26.06B	14.09	2.80	2.22	2.35%
Infosys Ltd.	INFY	23.88B	13.84	3.26	3.23	2.30%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	11.72B	16.77	6.17	0.96	2.00%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	40.39B	16.64	0.94	0.88	1.98%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	15.18B	10.51	1.59	0.48	1.96%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	55.26B	18.30	1.84	1.93	1.94%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	18.81B	15.94	2.44	1.42	1.86%
Dover Corp.	DOV	13.55B	16.74	2.91	1.65	1.77%

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