Bruce Berkowitz’s Latest Stock Buys And His Full Portfolio Holdings

Bruce Berkowitz’s Fund Portfolio Strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Bruce Berkowitz is also a well known guru investor. He is a hedge fund manager who cares about $7.69 billion in his asset management vehicle Fairholme Capital Management.

Within the recent quarter, Bruce made nine asset transactions of which six pay dividends. Four of the stock moves are attributable to the long side and five are on the short side.

In total, Bruce owns now only 13 share positions of which two were completely new (Lincoln National and Hartford Financial). In addition, he sold-out three stocks within the recent quarter. 

Financial stocks dominate his asset strategy. Around 68 percent of his total assets have a relationship to the financial sector.

The biggest position is his portfolio is reasonable to the insurer, AIG who represents around 50 percent of his full portfolio.

Nothing changed much in sum. Bruce made no big changes within the recent quarter. The highest trade impact on the long side had the 4.53 percent position increase of Sears Holdings.

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Bruce Berkowitz Biggest Dividend Stock Buys

The latest dividend stock buys from Bruce Berkowitz and his biggest portfolio holdings originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bruce Berkowitz is a successful asset manager. He manages around USD 7.9 billion in assets in his management company Fairholme Capital Management. Within the recent quarter, Bruce had only 21 stocks of which 3 are new.

Today I like to show you the top stock holdings from Bruce Berkowitz as well as his latest and most influential dividend stock buys.

His biggest acquisition was Chesapeake Energy. The company was completely new in his portfolio and had an impact of 3.5 percent. The current yield of CHK is 1.66 percent. Only seven of his 20 biggest stock acquisitions pay dividends. Berkowitz is no classical dividend investors. He loves the financial sector. Around 64.3 percent of his portfolio stock holdings have a relationship to financials.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 25 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.13%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	1.98B	18.53	1.73	1.26	4.43%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.65B	15.55	1.53	1.29	3.91%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	143.61B	24.27	2.71	3.11	3.62%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.52B	15.55	4.25	1.58	3.26%
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	CPK	499.47M	15.18	1.86	1.21	2.97%
American Railcar Industries, Inc.	ARII	720.14M	10.31	1.89	0.99	2.96%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	8.01B	24.71	12.62	2.96	2.72%
Broadridge Financial Solutions	BR	3.23B	21.00	4.17	1.37	2.70%
Gazit-Globe, Ltd.	GZT	2.26B	8.58	1.13	1.18	2.64%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	6.44B	10.82	1.10	3.36	2.60%
CONMED Corporation	CNMD	893.74M	22.54	1.50	1.18	1.86%
American Tower Corporation	AMT	29.99B	51.58	8.17	10.06	1.42%
SEI Investments Co.	SEIC	5.07B	22.62	4.61	4.94	1.36%
Brown Shoe Co. Inc.	BWS	927.71M	33.52	2.14	0.36	1.31%
NewMarket Corp.	NEU	3.70B	15.46	8.84	1.66	1.30%
Chico's FAS Inc.	CHS	2.77B	15.94	2.59	1.06	1.29%
Leucadia National Corp.	LUK	10.33B	11.04	1.02	1.15	0.88%
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	TMO	30.66B	23.34	1.97	2.42	0.70%
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.	FCNCA	1.90B	12.81	0.99	1.94	0.61%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.77B	19.54	1.17	3.87	0.37%

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