100 Promising Stocks That Big Investment Gurus Bought

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Sep 06, 2012
Stocks With Recent Engagements By Investment Professionals Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Investment gurus are asset or fund managers with big amounts of cash under management. They became popular by big returns and spectacular investment strategies. I talk about investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett. They all have one thing in common: The average return beats the market and if they invest, the market follows.


I made a screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. They all bought 577 stocks within the past half year.


The top stocks are Google (GOOG, Financial) and Oracle (ORCL, Financial). The information internet provider was bought by seventeen investment gurus and the business software company by sixteen. Sixty percent of the ten biggest buys were made within the technology sector and forty within the financial sector. Below is a detailed overview of the best yielding dividend stocks that were bought by at least three stock market gurus.


Here are my favorites:


Medtronic (MDT) has a market capitalization of $41.87 billion. The company employs 45,000 people, generates revenue of $16,184.00 million and has a net income of $3,415.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,127.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.68 percent (operating margin 25.61 percent and net profit margin 21.10 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 32.14 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 62.13 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.65 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.29. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.97 in form of dividends to shareholders. The stocks was bought by 5 investment gurus.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.43, P/S ratio 2.59 and P/B ratio 2.48. Dividend Yield: 2.55 percent. The beta ratio is 0.83.


Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA) has a market capitalization of $34.29 billion. The company employs 45,754 people, generates revenue of $18,312.00 million and has a net income of $2,829.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,174.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 22.79 percent (operating margin 16.98 percent and net profit margin 15.45 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 28.95 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 65.40 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 12.50 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.56. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.95 in form of dividends to shareholders. The stocks was bought by 4 investment gurus.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.09, P/S ratio 2.04 and P/B ratio 1.68. Dividend Yield: 2.50 percent. The beta ratio is 0.34.


The Western Union (WU) has a market capitalization of $10.65 billion. The company employs 8,000 people, generates revenue of $5,491.40 million and has a net income of $1,165.40 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,577.60 million. The EBITDA margin is 28.73 percent (operating margin 25.22 percent and net profit margin 21.22 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 39.51 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 400.45 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 157.75 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.95. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.31 in form of dividends to shareholders. The stocks was bought by 7 investment gurus.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.07, P/S ratio 1.94 and P/B ratio 12.24. Dividend Yield: 2.26 percent. The beta ratio is 1.39.


DeVry (D) has a market capitalization of $1.30 billion. The company employs 10,863 people, generates revenue of $2,089.78 million and has a net income of $142.38 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $292.93 million. The EBITDA margin is 14.02 percent (operating margin 9.77 percent and net profit margin 6.81 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.31 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.08. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.30 in form of dividends to shareholders. The stocks was bought by 3 investment gurus.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.72, P/S ratio 0.62 and P/B ratio 0.96. Dividend Yield: 1.49 percent. The beta ratio is 0.56.


Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with biggest guru buys over the past six month. The average P/E ratio amounts to 24.50. Exactly 74 companies pay dividends. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.31 percent. P/S ratio is 2.32 and P/B ratio 3.35.