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Will the Best Leon Cooperman Picks Please Stand Up?

By guest contributor Insider Monkey author Jake Mann. It’s not uncommon to hear hedge fund managers and other prominent investors sounding off on the economy, companies they’re invested in, or even why they hate Apple. So when Leon Cooperman, the billionaire head of Omega Advisors, was on CNBC earlier this week discussing his favorite stock picks, it would appear that this was rational advice all viewers should pay attention to.

Except it’s not.

According to our research at Insider Monkey, the best opportunity for hedge fund piggybackers to outperform the market lies in the small-cap space. Our newsletter that follows this strategy returned 47.6% in its first year (learn how we did it here), and longer-term returns are equally as promising.

In his interview on CNBC, Cooperman mentioned five of his top value investments: Sprint (S), AIG (AIG), Qualcomm (QCOM), KKR Financial (KFN) and SandRidge Energy (SD). All of these picks are fine and dandy in their own right, but only the last two are actually small-caps. In addition to KKR and SandRidge, Leon Cooperman has a few other small-cap stock picks that you should know about.

Atlas Energy

Atlas Energy (ATLS) is Cooperman’s top small-cap pick, and sits at the seventh largest position in his $6.5 billion equity portfolio. Richard Driehaus and Jim Simons are a couple other names that hold this oil and gas E&P, which is up 45% year-to-date. Shares of Atlas have had such a good 2013 because of a few factors: 1) MLPs have seen rising interest from traditional institutional investors, 2) more ETFs are looking at this space, 3) dividend yields have been growing, and 4) the macro environment for domestic natural gas, oil and NGLs is very bullish.

In addition to the impressive appreciation, Atlas Energy pays a 3.5% dividend yield that has quadrupled since 2011, and the valuation isn’t overblown at an enterprise value 2.3 times its revenue.

Chimera Investment

Chimera Investment (CIM), on the other hand, is a small-cap REIT that has been held by Cooperman since the second quarter of 2012 (see the full history here). Like the mythological origin of its name suggests, Chimera is a multi-faceted REIT that invests in residential MBS and different types of mortgage loans and it breaths quite a bit of fire with a 12% dividend yield.

Although quarterly dividend payments have fluctuated in value, they’ve been consistent in presence, and free cash flow has more than doubled over the past two years. On average, Wall Street expects funds from operations to grow by 5% to 6% a year over the next half-decade, but be aware that FFO has missed analyst targets in four of Chimera’s past five quarters. Even with the volatility, there’s no denying this REIT’s ridiculously attractive yield.

Atlas Pipeline Partners

Keeping Cooperman’s big bet on Atlas Energy in mind, it’s no surprise that the billionaire is also bullish on another MLP affiliated with the company, Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL). The natural gas processor is the 14th largest holding in Cooperman’s equity portfolio, and shares have had a solid year, up 20.8%.

In comparison to Atlas Energy, Atlas Pipeline’s focus as a full-service midstream company has allowed it to generate about twice the cash as its aforementioned ally, and thus, a higher dividend yield. Atlas Pipeline currently offers a yield of 6.5% on its shares and dividend payments have grown in five consecutive years. 

A couple more

We haven’t even discussed KKR and SandRidge yet. The latter is another oil and gas E&P, but unlike some of Cooperman’s other picks in the energy sector, SandRidge does not currently pay a dividend. With earnings growth of more than 40% expected this year alone, however, there’s much more momentum behind any bullish thesis here, and shares are actually pretty cheaply valued at 1.6 times book and a close parity on a price-to-sales basis.

Cooperman has held SandRidge stock since the fourth quarter of 2012 and depending on when he bought in, he could have booked as much as a 15% return so far on his investment.

KKR Financial, meanwhile, sits just inside Leon Cooperman’s 15 largest holdings and offers a whopping dividend yield of 8%. Yes, they’re up only 3.5% over the past year, but shares of KKR Financial are extremely attractive because of their depressed valuation; they trade at less than 7 times forward earnings and a price-to-earnings growth ratio of a mere 0.6. With double-digit annual earnings growth expected over the next five years and positive free cash flow, dividends appear sustainable.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 05, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks August 05, 2013. In total, 36 stocks go ex dividend - of which 23 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.95%.


Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners
2.51B
-
2.13
2.33
8.41%
Inergy, L.P.
2.00B
3.91
1.86
1.28
7.63%
Inergy Midstream LLC
2.11B
54.47
2.88
10.01
6.45%
New York Community Bancorp
6.90B
14.01
1.21
3.97
6.37%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP
2.49B
104.05
1.71
1.83
6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP
2.78B
11.21
3.58
1.28
6.02%
FirstEnergy Corp.
15.99B
24.21
1.23
1.07
5.75%
DCP Midstream Partners LP
3.52B
21.55
2.45
1.83
5.18%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.
7.99B
42.20
2.24
11.57
3.92%
Intel Corporation
115.49B
12.54
2.14
2.21
3.88%
Seagate Technology PLC
15.46B
8.69
4.41
1.08
3.64%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP
12.80B
28.10
8.47
7.48
3.59%
Southern Copper Corp.
22.21B
12.28
4.39
3.42
3.05%
Xilinx Inc.
12.45B
25.21
4.03
5.75
2.12%
City National Corp.
3.84B
18.20
1.62
4.39
1.41%
The Cheesecake Factory
2.28B
22.91
3.92
1.23
1.11%
Brown & Brown Inc.
4.75B
25.35
2.55
3.85
1.07%

Latest Dividend Growth: Norfolk Southern And Wendy's Hiked Dividends

Yesterday, eleven companies announced a dividend hike and one stock, Walter Industries, cut dividends from 12.5 cents per share to 1 cent. The biggest dividend hike came from BBCN Bancorp who raised its cash distributions by 50 percent. The current yield of BBCN is at 1.95 percent.

Two big names are on the list of the latest dividend growth companies: Wendy's and Norfolk Southern. 

The railroad company Norfolk Southern hiked its dividends by 4 percent and yields at 2.79 percent. The operating margin of the transportation stock is still very high at 27.90 percent. The company benefits from the current shale gas boom.

The fast food chain Wendy's announced a 25 percent dividend hike. That's a great increase if you look at the fundamentals of the company but the earnings outlook is good. Earnings are expected to grow by 14.33 percent for the next five years. The dividend yield of Wendy's amounts to 2.25 percent.

These are the latest dividend growth stocks from yesterday:


Company
Dividend Yield in %
Dividend Growth
Payment Period
Ex-Dividend Date
Dividend Payment Date
Access National
2.86
10.00%
Quarterly
8/5/2013
 8/23/2013
Atlas Pipeline Partners
6.33
5.08%
Quarterly
8/5/2013
 8/14/2013
Bar Harbor Bankshares
3.12
1.61%
Quarterly
8/13/2013
 9/13/2013
Barnes Group
1.34
10.00%
Quarterly
8/23/2013
 9/10/2013
BBCN Bancorp
1.95
50.00%
Quarterly
7/31/2013
 8/16/2013
Global Partners
6.14
0.86%
Quarterly
8/1/2013
 8/14/2013
MPLX L.P.
3.14
4.59%
Quarterly
7/31/2013
 8/14/2013
Norfolk Southern
2.79
4.00%
Quarterly
7/31/2013
 9/10/2013
StoneMor Partners
9.22
0.84%
Quarterly
8/1/2013
 8/15/2013
SunCoke Energy Partn.
7.38
37.58%
Quarterly
8/13/2013
 8/30/2013
Wendy's Co
2.81
25.00%
Quarterly
8/29/2013
 9/17/2013

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 06, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 06, 2013. In total, 39 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 20 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.98%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Penn Virginia Resource Partners
2.41B
-
1.90
2.40
8.72%
Linn Energy, LLC
9.01B
-
2.03
5.08
7.56%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP
2.74B
38.67
1.52
2.20
6.38%
Inergy Midstream LLC
2.19B
39.78
2.88
11.30
6.13%
Alliance Resource Partners LP
2.76B
12.20
3.90
1.36
5.93%
DCP Midstream Partners LP
3.55B
21.05
2.83
2.06
5.70%
American Realty Capital Prp.
2.50B
-
2.21
148.53
5.55%
Inergy, L.P.
2.90B
5.18
2.60
1.63
5.27%
Federated Investors, Inc.
2.32B
12.35
3.88
2.46
4.32%
Access Midstream Partners, L.P.
4.47B
36.89
1.94
7.35
4.28%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP
11.81B
27.14
7.78
6.66
3.84%
Sanofi
140.50B
21.67
1.88
3.00
3.20%
Southern Copper Corp.
27.91B
14.48
5.86
4.19
2.42%
Beam, Inc.
10.31B
26.03
2.23
4.18
1.40%
Cheesecake Factory
2.08B
20.86
3.52
1.13
1.22%
Waste Connections Inc.
4.61B
27.27
2.45
2.66
1.07%
UBS AG
67.98B
-
1.35
4.03
0.90%
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao
14.54B
27.54
3.39
0.57
0.33%