12 Warren Buffett Style Dividend Stocks With A Margin Of Safety

Ben Graham influenced a host of billionaire investing titans, from the Oracle of Omaha to Seth Klarman, David Tepper and Mario Gabelli. Here are defensive stocks he would love.

_{By John Dobosz, Forbes Staff}

Before he became a mega-billionaire solely through his investment skill, and after he earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in 1949, Warren Buffett took his talents to the Morningside Heights neighborhood on the upper west side of Manhattan to earn his master’s degree in business from Columbia University, studying under the tutelage of Professor Benjamin Graham, widely known as the “father of value investing.”

More than 15 years prior to Buffett’s arrival on the Columbia campus, Graham co-authored Security Analysis with fellow Columbia professor David Dodd—a book widely considered the seminal investing treatise published after the enactment of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.