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Only a few investors can outperform the market with more than 5% per year.

Here are the 20 most owned stocks by the best investors in the world:

1. Alphabet ($GOOGL)

Google has a monopoly in digital advertisements. Munger once stated that $GOOGL has one of the widest moats he has ever seen.

- Profit Margin: 29.5%
- ROIC: 23.9%
- Earnings Yield: 3.8%
- Exp. yearly EPS Growth (3 yr): 12.4%
- CAGR since IPO: 22.7%

2. Microsoft ($MSFT)

Microsoft operates as a software company. Word, Excel … are all applications of $MSFT. Their cloud segment grows very fast.

- Profit Margin: 36.7%
- ROIC: 28.1%
- Earnings Yield: 3.0%
- Exp. yearly EPS Growth (3 yr): 12.7%
- CAGR since IPO: 22.7%

3. Meta Platforms ($META)

Meta Platforms (Facebook) is a market leader in digital advertising and is investing heavily in the metaverse.

- Profit Margin: 33.4%
- ROIC: 19.3%
- Earnings Yield: 5.2%
- Exp. yearly EPS Growth (3 yr): 7.8%
- CAGR since IPO: 12.3%

4. Amazon ($AMZN)

Amazon is the worldwide market leader in e-commerce. They also offer cloud platform services globally through AWS.

- Profit Margin: 7.1%
- ROIC: 4.9%
- Earnings Yield: 1.6%
- Exp. yearly EPS Growth (3 yr): 65.9%
- CAGR since IPO: 32.1%

5. Visa ($V)

Together with Mastercard, Visa dominates the market for digital payments. Electronic payments are in a strong secular trend.

- Profit margin: 51.0%
- ROIC: 24.4%
- Earnings yield: 3.7%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 22.8%
- CAGR since IPO: 22.8%

6. Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway is the conglomerate of Warren Buffett, the best investor in the world.

Top 5 positions of $BRK.B:

7. Bank of America ($BAC)

Bank of America is a financial holding company offering products and services like saving accounts and wealth management.

- Profit margin: 35.8%
- ROIC: 3.2%
- Earnings yield: 12.9%
- Exp. earnings growth (3 yr): 7.1%
- CAGR since IPO: 10.6%

8. Mastercard ($MA)

Together with Visa, Mastercard dominates the attractive market of financial transaction processing.

- Profit margin: 46.0%
- ROIC: 49.3%
- Earnings yield: 3.2%
- Expected EPS growth (next 3 years): 13.4%
- CAGR since IPO: 31.0%

9. Wells Fargo ($WFC)

Wells Fargo & Company operates as a diversified financial services company (banking, insurances, mortgages, credit cards, …).

- Profit margin: 27.5%
- ROIC: 4.2%
- Earnings yield: 9.3%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 15.9%
- CAGR since IPO: 13.7%

10. UnitedHealth Group ($UNH)

UnitedHealth Group owns and manages organized health systems. It’s the largest health insurer by revenue in the US.

- Profit margin: 6.0%
- ROIC: 16.9%
- Earnings yield: 4.4%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 11.4%
- CAGR since IPO: 22.9%

11. Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ)

J&J manufactures health care products and provides related services. J&J has increased its dividend for more than 50 years.

- Profit margin: 22.3%
- ROIC: 18.0%
- Earnings yield: 3.0%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 8.6%
- CAGR since IPO: 13.4%

12. Moody’s ($MCO)

Moody’s is a credit rating company. Moody’s has a huge competitive advantage and a lot of pricing power.

- Profit margin: 35.6%
- ROIC: 17.3%
- Earnings yield: 3.1%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 9.4%
- CAGR since IPO: 14.8%

13. Charles Schwab ($CHW)

The Charles Schwab Corporation is a financial services company providing wealth and asset management services.

- Profit margin: 30.8%
- ROIC: 9.8%
- Earnings yield: 6.6%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 17.1%
- CAGR since IPO: 17.8%

14. Walt Disney ($DIS)

Walt Disney operates as an entertainment and media enterprise company. Walt Disney is mainly active in the media and theme parks.

- Profit margin: 3.8%
- ROIC: 2.8%
- Earnings yield: 4.3%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 41.8%
- CAGR since IPO: 11.1%

15. JP Morgan ($JPM)

JPMorgan Chase & Co is the largest bank in the United States providing global financial services and retail banking.

- Profit margin: 39.7%
- ROIC: 3.9%
- Earnings yield: 10.1%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 3.8%
- CAGR since IPO: 12.0%

16. Apple ($AAPL)

Apple is the largest company in the world. 18% of all new phones sold are iPhones.

- Profit Margin: 25.3%
- ROIC: 48.8%
- Earnings Yield: 3.4%
- Exp. yearly EPS Growth (3 yr): 6.2%
- CAGR since IPO: 19.5%

17. Alibaba ($BABA)

Alibaba can be seen as ‘the Amazon of China’. Just like Amazon, they are also focusing heavily on the cloud.

- Profit margin: 7.3%
- ROIC: 0.5%
- Earnings yield: 10.7%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 14.0%
- CAGR since IPO: 0.0%

18. American Express ($AXP)

American Express is a global payment and travel company. They are mainly active in charge and credit payment card products.

- Profit margin: 18.5%
- ROIC: 13.1%
- Earnings yield: 7.4%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 7.2%
- CAGR since IPO: 10.7%

19. Adobe ($ADBE)

Adobe is a true compounding machine active in computer software products and technologies. Adobe has a wide moat and very high margins.

- Profit margin: 30.6%
- ROIC: 27.0%
- Earnings yield: 4.6%
- Exp. EPS growth (3 yr): 20.0%
- CAGR since IPO: 17.6%

20. Pepsico ($PEP)

PepsiCo operates foods and beverages businesses. $PEP manufactures markets and sells a variety of snacks, beverages, and foods.

- Profit margin: 9.6%
- ROIC: 18.4%
- Earnings yield: 3.7%
- Expected EPS growth (3 yr): 3.7%
- CAGR since IPO: 12.0%

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