James Barrow's 20 Recent Large Cap Dividend Stock Buys

 | Jul 11, 2013 07:15AM ET

James Barrow is a relatively unknown fund manager but he has a big influence on Wall Street. His assets under management exceeded the 55 billion mark at his investment firm Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. This money is spread across 159 stocks. Barrow follows a value oriented investment strategy.

Barrow is also a large cap dividend stock lover. Nearly all of his 20 most recent large cap stock acquisitions pay dividends. His biggest position is the tobacco company Philip Morris.

Merck (MRK) has a market capitalization of $144.82 billion. The company employs 82,000 people, generates revenue of $47.267 billion and has a net income of $6.299 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $22.343 billion. The EBITDA margin is 47.27 percent (the operating margin is 18.49 percent and the net profit margin 13.33 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 19.38 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 38.79 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 11.47 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.96. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.68 in the form of dividends to shareholders. The MRK stake purchase had an influence of 0.99 percent to his portfolio. The position is currently 12 percent in gain.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 24.44, the P/S ratio is 3.06 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.74. The dividend yield amounts to 3.59 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.58.