Surprisingly, Warren Buffett Buys These 8 Dividend Stocks

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Nov 19, 2014

Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) released recently his Portfolio movements via 13F.

I cover his investment changes and like to share my thoughts about his latest moves with you here on my blog.

Sure, I like to keep my focus on dividend stocks, but you will also get his non-dividend payer stock buys and sells.

During the past quarter, Warren bought 11 stocks of which eight pay a dividend. Four stocks were reduced and one, Deere (DE), was sold out by the investment guru from Omaha.

General Motors (GM, Financial) and Suncor Energy (SU, Financial) are his highest-yielding stock purchases from the past quarter. Completely new shares in his asset vehicle were Express Scripts Holdings, the health care plans operator.

In addition he added Visa (V, Financial) and MasterCard (MA, Financial). The trend of paying cash-less is fully intact and gains more and more momentum.

Also Walmart (WMT, Financial) and IBM (IBM) shares were increased by Buffett. Linked is a full list of his latest stock movements.

Here are Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio)'s latest dividend paying stock buys:

#1 General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) has a market capitalization of $51.08 billion. The company employs 219,000 people, generates revenue of $155.427 billion and has a net income of $5.331 billion.

General Motors Company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12.598 billion. The EBITDA margin is 8.11 percent (the operating margin is 3.16 percent and the net profit margin 3.43 percent).

Financials: The total debt represents 21.75 percent of General Motors Company's assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 84.92 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 11.54 percent was realized by General Motors Company.

Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.57.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 20.19, the P/S ratio is 0.33 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.21. The dividend yield amounts to 3.77 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.71. - Read more about #2 - #8 here: Warren Buffett Buys Surprisingly These 8 Dividend Stocks...