5 Key Findings From The Top Money Manager Portfolios
By Nathan Slaughter
If you've been around for a while, you already know that my staff and I are pretty fond of Warren Buffett.
We frequently quote his sage (and colorful) advice. I truly believe there is more wisdom contained in Buffett's annual shareholder reports than can be learned in any graduate-level business class.
More importantly, he puts that advice into practice daily. That's not to say Buffett doesn't ever swing and miss (he's still human, after all). But they don't call him the Oracle for nothing. Since setting up shop at Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, he and partner Charlie Munger have delivered a jaw-dropping 3,787,464% return.
So naturally, we pore over SEC filings to track what they've been buying and selling lately. Many people are surprised to discover that Buffet's vast riches have been methodically built on mature dividend payers. You might even call them boring. Buffett refers to them as the "secret sauce."
For example, Berkshire Hathaway accumulated $1.3 billion in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) stock through 1994. At the time, those shares yielded $75 million in yearly dividends. By 2022, cash dividends had increased to $704 million annually (more than 50% of the original amount invested), and the value of those shares had risen to $25 billion.
In his own words, "Growth occurred every year, just as certain as birthdays. All Charlie and I were required to do was cash Coke's quarterly dividend checks."
Of course, we believe in those same tenets over at High-Yield Investing. We look for many of the same traits in portfolio candidates: durable competitive advantages, favorable industry economics, trustworthy and efficient management teams, superior returns on invested capital, and excess free cash flows.
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