29 Best Dividend Stocks Owned By Warren Buffett

Buying dividend growth stocks is a popular and proven way to make money. A great investor who followed this approach in a very public way is Warren Buffett.

When I don’t have enough ideas regarding what to invest in, I use his holding for inspriation. Today I'll look at the best yielding stocks from his portfolio. Of his 41 stock holdings, 29 pay dividends. The highest yielding stock is still GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British drug company. Its dividend yield is 6.12 percent. Buffett's top stocks are a mix of drugs, newspapers and electric utilities.

In total, he owns 41 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 75,313,620,000. Buffett bought two new companies and added ten additional stocks to his fund recently. The most important buy was Wells Fargo (WFC) and DaVita HealthCare Partners (DVA). Both stocks increased his portfolio by more than 0.5 percent.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has a market capitalization of $110.71 billion. The company employs 99,488 people, generates revenue of $39.921 billion and has a net income of $7.165 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $13.333 billion. The EBITDA margin is 33.40 percent (the operating margin is 27.97 percent and the net profit margin 17.95 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 44.13 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 315.01 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 65.96 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.74. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.24 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.47, the P/S ratio is 2.77 and the P/B ratio is finally 12.60. The dividend yield amounts to 5.20 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.63.






ConocoPhillips (COP) has a market capitalization of $72.22 billion. The company employs 16,900 people, generates revenue of $62.004 billion and has a net income of $7.481 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $22.753 billion. The EBITDA margin is 36.70 percent (the operating margin is 24.87 percent and the net profit margin 12.07 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 18.55 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 45.27 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 13.09 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.91. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.64 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.01, the P/S ratio is 1.16 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.50. The dividend yield amounts to 4.46 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.12.






Dominion Resources (D) has a market capitalization of $32.52 billion. The company employs 15,500 people, generates revenue of $13.093 billion and has a net income of $351.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.342 billion. The EBITDA margin is 17.89 percent (the operating margin is 8.83 percent and the net profit margin 2.68 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 45.87 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 198.48 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 2.94 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.57. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.11 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 99.02, the P/S ratio is 2.48 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.04. The dividend yield amounts to 3.99 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.44.






Gannett (GCI) has a market capitalization of $4.98 billion. The company employs 31,000 people, generates revenue of $5.353 billion and has a net income of $475.01 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $983.79 million. The EBITDA margin is 18.38 percent (the operating margin is 14.75 percent and the net profit margin 8.87 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 22.45 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 60.92 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.14 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.56. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.80 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 13.95, the P/S ratio is 0.93 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.12. The dividend yield amounts to 3.69 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 2.50.






Take a closer look at the full table of Warren Buffet’s best yielding dividend stocks. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 20.67 and forward P/E ratio is 13.10. The dividend yield has a value of 2.35 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.85 and price to sales ratio 2.96. The operating margin amounts to 19.23 percent and the beta ratio is 1.02.

Here is the sheet of the top dividend stocks from his portfolio:


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