Top 5 Warren Buffett Companies To Own For 2014

The following stocks meet the criteria that Warren Buffett has emphasized in the past.� As such, these stocks might satisfy the ��racle of Omaha.��/p>

How does Buffett make his picks? In short, he uses the following five investment criteria.

��Free cash flow of at least $250 million.

��Net profit margin of 15% or more.

��Return on equity of at least 15% for each of the past three years and the most recent quarter.

��One dollar�� worth of shareholder equity created for every dollar of retained earnings over the past five years.

��Market capitalization of at least $500 million.

Top 5 Warren Buffett Companies To Own For 2014: Empire State Realty Trust Inc (ESRT)

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., incorporated on July 29, 2011, is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area. The Company operates in two segments: real estate and construction contracting. As of June 30, 2013, the Company owned 12 office properties (including one long-term ground leasehold interest) encompassing approximately 7.7 million rentable square feet of office space, which were approximately 83.5% leased (or 86.2% giving effect to leases signed but not yet commenced as of that date). Seven of these properties are located in the midtown Manhattan market and encompass in the aggregate approximately 5.9 million rentable square feet of office space, including the Empire State Building. Its Manhattan office properties also contain an aggregate of 440,615 rentable square feet of retail space on their ground floor and/or lower levels. Its remaining five office properties are located in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York, encompassing in the aggregate approximately 1.8 million rentable square feet.

The Company has entitled land at the Stamford Transportation Center in Stamford, Connecticut, adjacent to one of its office properties, that supports the development of an approximately 380,000 rentable square foot office building and garage, which refers to herein as Metro Tower. As of June 30, 2013, its portfolio also included four standalone retail properties located in Manhattan and two standalone retail properties located in the city center of Westport, Connecticut, encompassing 204,452 rentable square feet in the aggregate. As of June 30, 2013, its standalone retail properties were 100% leased in the aggregate. In addition, the Company has an option to acquire from affiliates of its predecessor two additional Manhattan office properties encompassing approximately 1.5 million rentable squar! e feet of office space and 153,209 rentable square feet of retail space at the base of the buildings.

The Empire State Building is the Company�� flagship property. The 102-story building consists of 2,701,938 rentable square feet of office space and 167,788 rentable square feet of retail space. The building also includes its observatory and broadcasting operations. The Company�� portfolio includes retail properties located in retail corridors in Manhattan and Westport, Connecticut. Tenants at 10 Union Square in Manhattan include Best Buy Mobile, Starbucks, A&P, Panera Bread, FedEx/Kinko��, Au Bon Pain, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and GameStop. In the greater New York metropolitan area, its portfolio includes high quality suburban office properties in densely populated metropolitan communities in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York. tenants of the greater New York metropolitan area flagship Metro Center (at the Transportation Center in Stamford, Connecticut) include Thomson Reuters, Jefferies Group, Columbus Circle Investors, Torm Shipping, Olympus Partners, BP Energy, Tweedy, Browne Company and Susquehanna International.

The Company approximately has 242 million square feet of rentable space, which are contained within Midtown�� multi-tenant office buildings. Downtown Chicago and the Washington, D.C. CBD combine has a total of 230 million square feet of office space. Three-quarters 75.3% of Midtown�� office stock is classified as Class A with total square footage of 182 million square feet. The Company approximately has 43.9 million square feet of Midtown office space is counted as Class B stock, accounting for 18.2% of the total market. The remaining 6.5% of Midtown office space (15.8 million square feet) is categorized as Class C space. The Grand Central submarket is a office submarket in Midtown Manhattan with 44 million square feet and is located on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, to the north of Murray Hill and to the south of the Park ! Avenue co! rridor.

The West Side office submarket, located to the south and west of Central Park and including the area around Columbus Circle, consists of 25.8 million square feet of office space. Westchester County contains approximately 28.9 million square feet of office space and is split into six submarkets: White Plains CBD and non-CBD, Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern. The White Plains CBD is situated in south central Westchester County, along the Cross-Westchester Expressway (Interstate 287) corridor between the Sprain Brook Parkway and the Hutchinson River Parkway. The submarket consists of approximately 6.3 million square feet of office space and is defined to include the area south of Barker Avenue, north of Quinby Avenue, east of the Bronx River Parkway and west of South Broadway/Post Road. Westchester�� Eastern office submarket consists of 6.5 million square feet of space and is located to the east of White Plains, between New Rochelle and the Connecticut state border.

Top 5 Warren Buffett Companies To Own For 2014: Rockville Financial Inc.(RCKB)

Rockville Financial, Inc. operates as the holding company for Rockville Bank that provides a range of banking services to consumer and commercial customers. The company accepts deposit instruments, which include checking, savings, money market savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, and fixed-rate time deposits. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial and industrial loans; residential mortgage loans; commercial real estate loans; consumer loans; commercial and residential construction loans; commercial business loans; and installment, collateral, and other loans. As of July 14, 2011, the company operated 21 branches in Tolland, Hartford, and New London counties in Connecticut. It operates 41 automated teller machines (ATM), including 9 stand-alone ATM facilities. The company was founded in 1858 and is based in Rockville, Connecticut. Rockville Financial, Inc. is a subsidiary of Rockville Financial MHC, Inc.

Top 10 Value Companies To Own For 2014: Eureka Resources Inc.(EUK.V)

Eureka Resources, Inc. engages in the exploration and development of natural resource properties in Canada. It primarily explores for copper and gold ores. The company?s mineral property interests are located in the Cariboo Mining Division of British Columbia, which include the Frasergold project consisting of 18 claims covering approximately 2,866 hectares; and the Lottie Lake project comprising 11 claims covering approximately 3,000 hectares. Eureka Resources Inc. was incorporated in 1981 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 5 Warren Buffett Companies To Own For 2014: HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA (HRTPY)

HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, formerly BN 16 Participacoes Ltda, is a Brazil-based holding company engaged in the oil and gas industry. The Company is primarily involved in the exploration and production (E&P) of oil and natural gas in Brazil and Namibia. Through its subsidiaries, it is active in the geophysical and geological research, exploration, development, production, import, export and sale of oil and natural gas, as well as in the provision of air logistics services in transporting people and equipment related to oil and gas activities in the exploratory campaign in the Solimoes Basin. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had seven subsidiaries, including Integrated Petroleum Expertise Company Servicos em Petroleo Ltda (IPEX), HRT O&G Exploracao e Producao de Petroleo Ltda, HRT Netherlands BV, HRT America Inc, HRT Africa, HRT Canada Inc and Air Amazonia Servicos Aereos Ltda.

Top 5 Warren Buffett Companies To Own For 2014: Bovis Homes Group(BVS.L)

Bovis Homes Group PLC engages in designing, building, and selling homes for private and public sectors primarily in England and Wales. Its products range from one and two bedroom coach houses and apartments to three storey town houses and four and five bedroom family homes; and retirement living and social housing, as well as partnership housing. The company also undertakes mixed use schemes, including retail, commercial, and office projects. As of December 31, 2010, it had consented land bank of 13,766 plots and strategic land bank of 17,325 plots. The company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Longfield, the United Kingdom.