{"id":30950,"date":"2012-07-18T13:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/07\/jeremy-granthams-top-5-dividend-stocks\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:08:44","slug":"jeremy-granthams-top-5-dividend-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/07\/18\/jeremy-granthams-top-5-dividend-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Grantham\u2019s Top 5 Dividend Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sizemoreletter.com\/\" target=\"blank\">By The Sizemore Letter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know who Jeremy Grantham is, you should.\u00a0 In fact, once you finish reading this article, you should drop whatever else you are doing, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/gmo.com\">his website<\/a>, and read his latest quarterly letter.\u00a0 Make it a habit to read every quarterly letter as they come out; you\u2019ll be a better investor for it.\u00a0 (While you\u2019re at it, make it a habit to read his colleague James Montier\u2019s work as well; Montier\u2019s writing on behavioral investing\u00a0 is some of the most insightful I\u2019ve ever seen.)<\/p>\n<p>Grantham is the chief investment strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO), an investments firm with more than $100 billion under management.\u00a0 He\u2019s also one of those rare managers who is not afraid to be a voice in the wilderness.\u00a0 Virtually alone among large money managers, Grantham steadfastly refused to get caught up in the 1990s tech bubble.\u00a0 His principled stand lost him nearly half his assets under management due to client defections, but those that stuck with him did well in the bear market that followed.<\/p>\n<p>A decade later, he voiced concerns again about bubbles forming in the real estate and financial sectors\u2026and we all know how those turned out.<\/p>\n<p>But lest anyone accuse him of being\u00a0 a \u201cperma bear,\u201d Grantham was pounding his fist on the table immediately after the 2008 meltdown telling investors to buy when everyone else was too terrified to move.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, this is a guy who has had a good grasp on the market conditions of the past several years.\u00a0 He\u2019s someone you ought to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, let\u2019s take a look at Mr. Grantham\u2019s top five stock holdings as of his firm\u2019s SEC filings, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/gurufocus.com\">GuruFocus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">\n<p align=\"center\">Stock<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">Ticker<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"center\">Current Price<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"center\">Dividend Yield<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">Microsoft<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">MSFT<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">$30.21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">2.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">Johnson &amp; Johnson<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">JNJ<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">$69.03<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">3.6%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">Philip Morris International<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">PM<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">$88.99<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">3.4%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">Pfizer<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">PFE<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">$23.60<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">3.8%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"193\">Coca-Cola<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\">\n<p align=\"center\">KO<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">$76.91<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"132\">\n<p align=\"right\">2.7%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0As a demanding value investor, it is not at all surprising to see that all five of Grantham\u2019s top holdings pay dividends far in excess of the market average of approximately 2%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also not at all surprising to see that his holdings are <strong>serial dividend <\/strong><em><strong>growers.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>After all, for long-term investors, the dividend today is far less important than the dividend 5 years from now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coca-Cola (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/KO\"><span>$<\/span>KO<\/a>)<\/strong> is the second-largest holding of my favorite ETF, <strong>the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/VIG\"><span>$<\/span>VIG<\/a>)<\/strong>, and <strong>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/MSFT\"><span>$<\/span>MSFT<\/a>)<\/strong> and <strong>Philip Morris International\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/PM\"><span>$<\/span>PM<\/a>)<\/strong> will likely be holdings as well once they meet the time requirements. (In order to be included in the ETF\u2019s underlying index, a stock must have a minimum of ten consecutive years of dividend increases.\u00a0 Microsoft started paying a dividend in 2003, and Philip Morris International was spun off from parent Altria less than four years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>The real king of dividend growers is <strong>Johnson &amp; Johnson (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/JNJ\"><span>$<\/span>JNJ<\/a>),<\/strong> however.\u00a0\u00a0 This iconic maker of Band-Aids, Tylenol, Listerine, and too many other health and pharmaceutical products to list has raised its dividend for an astonishing <em>49 consecutive years.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The last year in which Johnson &amp; Johnson failed to raise its dividend, John F. Kennedy was the President of the United States.<\/strong>\u00a0 Stop and think about that for a minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only stock in Grantham\u2019s top five that has cut its dividend in recent years is Big Pharma giant <strong>Pfizer (<a href=\"http:\/\/stocktwits.com\/symbol\/PFE\"><span>$<\/span>PFE<\/a>)<\/strong>, which has been hard hit by the patent expirations and competitive forces that have affected its rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma has done quite nicely in 2012, however, and Pfizer currently trades near its 52-week highs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are no guarantees that owning a basket of Mr. Grantham\u2019s largest stock holdings will beat the market, of course.\u00a0 There are plenty of years in which his portfolios underperform the market by a wide margin, particularly \u201crisk on\u201d years in which investors throw risk tolerance to the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you are looking for a portfolio of solid dividend payers for steady, consistent returns, Mr. Grantham\u2019s stocks are worth a good look.<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosures: Sizemore Capital is long MSFT, JNJ and VIG.\u00a0 Sizemore Capital recently sold its holdings of PM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/european-dividend-stocks-what-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"European Dividend Stocks: What You Need to Know\">European Dividend Stocks: What You Need to Know<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/philip-morris-international-a-dividend-stock-best-avoided\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Philip Morris International: A Dividend Stock Best Avoided\">Philip Morris International: A Dividend Stock Best Avoided<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/charlessizemore.com\/beware-of-chasing-high-dividend-yields\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Beware of Chasing High Dividend Yields\">Beware of Chasing High Dividend Yields<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Sizemore Letter If you don\u2019t know who Jeremy Grantham is, you should.\u00a0 In fact, once you finish reading this article, you should drop whatever else you are doing, go to his website, and read his latest quarterly letter.\u00a0 Make it a habit to read every quarterly letter as they come out; you\u2019ll be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/07\/18\/jeremy-granthams-top-5-dividend-stocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeremy Grantham\u2019s Top 5 Dividend Stocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}