100 Most Sold Stocks By Famous Investment Gurus

December 11th, 2012 by Dividend Yield

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Stocks with recent short activities by investment professionals originally published at 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 sells from 49 super investors over the recent six month and ranked them in my 100 best guru sells list. They all sold in total 630 different stocks within the past half-year.

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The top stocks are Wal-Mart (WMT), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG).

Here are the 3 most sold stocks:

Microsoft (MSFT) has a market capitalization of $226.74 billion. The company employs 94,000 people, generates revenue of $73.723 billion and has a net income of $16.978 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $24.819 billion. The EBITDA margin is 33.67 percent (the operating margin is 29.92 percent and the net profit margin 23.03 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 9.85 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 18.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 27.51 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.85. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.80 in the form of dividends to shareholders. MSFT was sold by 16 gurus.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.56, the P/S ratio is 3.02 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.34. The dividend yield amounts to 3.48 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.98.

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) has a market capitalization of $241.36 billion. The company employs 2,200,000 people, generates revenue of $446.950 billion and has a net income of $16.454 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $34.688 billion. The EBITDA margin is 7.76 percent (the operating margin is 5.94 percent and the net profit margin 3.68 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 27.62 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 74.92 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.55 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.86. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.46 in the form of dividends to shareholders. WMT was sold by 13 professional investors.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.85, the P/S ratio is 0.54 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.46. The dividend yield amounts to 2.20 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.33.

Citigroup (C) has a market capitalization of $109.06 billion. The company employs 261,000 people, generates revenue of $72.681 billion and has a net income of $11.103 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $29.977 billion. The EBITDA margin is 41.24 percent (the operating margin is 18.66 percent and the net profit margin 14.17 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 29.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 315.13 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.31 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.38. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.03 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Citigroup was sold by 12 guru stock investors.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.63, the P/S ratio is 1.41 and the P/B ratio is finally 0.62. The dividend yield amounts to 0.11 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 2.58.

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with biggest guru sells over the past six months. The average P/E ratio amounts to 17.45. Exactly 81 companies pay dividends of which five have a high yield over five percent. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.11 percent. P/S ratio is 2.95 and P/B ratio 3.35.

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