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Billionaire Leon Cooperman’s Long-Term Stock Picks

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By Matt Doiron

The SEC requires hedge funds and many other large investors to file 13Fs several weeks after the end of each quarter, disclosing many of their long equity positions in U.S. stocks as of the end of the quarter. We have found that these filings can be a useful source of information for investors; for example, the most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds outperform the S&P 500 by 18 percentage points per year on average (learn more about imitating hedge funds’ small cap picks). One of the filers we track is billionaire Leon Cooperman’s Omega Advisors. Read on for our thoughts on Omega’s five largest holdings as of the beginning of this year, which it had also reported owning at the end of 2010 (or see the full list of stocks the fund reported owning):

Omega disclosed ownership of about 16 million shares of SLM


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The Top 5 Most ‘Undervalued’ High Dividend Stocks

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By Matt Doiron

Price targets from sell-side analysts are far from perfect guides to upside opportunities, but they do provide a quantitative measurement of how much these analysts believe a stock is undervalued. We can also combine the spread between a stock’s current price and its price target with other metrics (for example, a stock’s dividend yield) in order to improve the process of identifying initial ideas. Investors can then research any companies which seem appealing. Here are five stocks with high daily dollar volumes which pay dividend yields of at least 4% going by current prices and recent dividend levels, and which are undervalued by at least 14% according to 1-year analyst price targets:

Vale (VALE) leads our list, as its current stock price is $16.73, its 1-year consensus target is $23.03, and the dividend yield is close to 5%, according to current dividend policy. The $86 billion market


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5 Takeover Rumors Hedge Funds Have Been Buying

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By Matt Doiron

Acquirers of a public company pay a significant premium to the pre-announcement share price, which leads to the stock reacting quite positively even to rumors of a takeover. Buying stocks purely on the existence on a rumor is generally a bad idea and certainly very speculative, though investors can at least attempt to divine the truth behind any potential situation (in addition, takeover rumors often are rooted in at least a broad argument that a company is undervalued). Here are five stocks which have seen some takeover chatter recently, along with some of the hedge funds and other notable investors who are long the stock (though in some cases that might be purely based on value concerns):

One of the biggest takeover rumors that has been swirling is that Verizon (VZN), either by itself or with a partner such as AT&T (T), would buy global telecom Vodafone


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Billionaire David Tepper’s Long-Term High-Dividend Stock Picks

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By Eric Winter

For the retail investor tracking the holdings of hedge funds, positions held a year or longer by managers can convey a strong sense of support for those companies. Stocks that reside in a portfolio for a longer term have certain holding period benefits that include lower capital gains taxes and an increased opportunity to collect dividend payments. We have taken this information into account and have created a strategy that has returned 37% between September 2012 and March 2013 versus 12.9% for the S&P 500 (see the details here). We create such strategies by sifting through large amounts of hedge fund data for actionable information. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the best dividend-paying stocks that billionaire David Tepper has held in his portfolio for a year or greater.

Chimera Investment Corp. (CIM) takes the top spot with its


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