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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Wells Fargo, iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF, Coca-Cola, SPDR Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF and Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF - Press Releases

Zacks Equity Research
Updated

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – May 28, 2015 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks and ETFs recently featured in the blog include the Wells Fargo (WFC), iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Coca-Cola (KO), SPDR Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF (XLP) and Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF ( IBLN).

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:

Follow Warren Buffett with These Stocks & ETFs

Everybody dreams of becoming rich and famous like Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, Daniel Loeb and David Tepper. After all, these Wall Street gurus have successfully put their money in the right place and continued to reap huge returns.

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has enjoyed an average growth rate of about 20% annually. Furthermore, Berkshire Hathaway has added more than 104% over the last five years that is better than the gain of over 94% from the broader market ETF during the same timeframe.

Thanks to this achievement, following billionaires’ investment strategies is now a fad these days. While investing in Berkshire is always a good way of following Buffett, who is commonly known as The Oracle of Omaha, there are numerous other ways to reproduce this stock market veteran’s investment theme and jazz up one’s portfolio.

Normally, Buffett takes interest in companies trading below what he believes is their intrinsic value.He aims long-term outperformance and apparently ignores short-term downturns. We have analyzed a few stocks that remain Buffett’s favorites and highlight the related ETFs for investors who want to follow this investment veteran.

Following Buffett

Financials

Among many other new positions and additions, Buffett has purchased Wells Fargo ( WFC). This position was worth $25.6 billion at March end, per the source. Notably, our Zacks style score shows that WFC, with a Zacks ETF Rank #3 (Hold), possesses a Momentum score of A and value score of B, as per Zacks style score. The industry WFC hails from and currently resides in the top 40% part of the Zacks Industry Rank.

Investors can also this stock via iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF ( IYG). The stock takes more than 11% share in the fund. IYG has a Zacks ETF Rank #2 (Buy) (read: Decent Banking Earnings Fail to Energize Financial ETFs ).

Consumer Staples

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Buffett continues to have a considerable stake in the Zacks Rank #3 beverage giant Coca-Cola (KO). Coca Cola can also be accessed by a basket approach as it has over 9% holding in SPDR Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF (XLP).

Other ETF Bets

But Buffet is not the only iconic investor and neither are his preferred stocks the only way of playing the market. One can easily invest in Direxion iBillionaire Index ETF (IBLN) to follow other stock market gurus including Buffett (read: Guide to Guru ETF Investing ).

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WELLS FARGO-NEW (WFC): Free Stock Analysis Report
 
ISHARS-US FN SV (IYG): ETF Research Reports
 
COCA COLA CO (KO): Free Stock Analysis Report
 
SPDR-CONS STPL (XLP): ETF Research Reports
 
DIRX-IBILLIONR (IBLN): ETF Research Reports
 
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