Company: General Dynamics Corp

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reports today it owned 20.3 million shares of DIRECTV as of December 31, the end of the fourth quarter.  That's up 379 percent from the 4.2 million it reported owning as of the end of Q3.  Berkshire also reports a sizable decrease in its Johnson & Johnson  stake.  It fell by 8.4 million shares, or 23 percent.  That cut stake would be worth $544.6 million at today's close.   Read More

Bespoke crunched the numbers and found some long-time dividend payers with solid earnings that it sees as a relatively safe way to get yield.   Read More

February is the busiest month for dividend declarations and increases, and this year, the biggest U.S. corporations may pay out a record amount.    Read More

We already knew, thanks to this morning's CNBC interview, that Warren Buffett has been busy buying IBM shares this year.  Now that Berkshire's 13-F third quarter filing is public, we know that new portfolio manager Todd Combs has also been doing some buying, although not at the same scale.   Read More