The Single Best Investment : Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth (Hardcover - Revised Ed.)--by Lowell Miller [2006 Edition] ISBN: 9780965175081

Second edition This witty guide advises readers to stop playing the stock market or listening to television gurus and instead put their money into dividend-paying, moderate-growth companies that offer consistent returns and minimum risk. Citing statistics that show companies initiating and raising dividends at the fastest rate in 30 years, this analysis declares once-stodgy dividends to be'the next new thing'and provides simple rules for choosing the best stocks, using traditional evaluation tools, reinvesting dividends, comparing stocks and bonds, and building a portfolio. Technical aspects of the stock market are explained in the final pages that include two new chapters and revised statistics as well as academic studies, historic back-tests, examples of real-time performance, and a list of resources for further research. Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 12 Ch 1: The First Hurdle: Say Goodbye to Bonds and Hello to Bouncing Princip al......Page 28 Ch 2: The Eighth Wonder: A First Look At Compounding......Page 44 Ch 3: The Single Best Investment: Creating Your Own Private Compounding Machine......Page 56 Ch 4: The Single Best Investment Strategy Applied......Page 74 Ch 5: Traditional Valuation Tools......Page 92 Ch 6: Does Undervaluation Exist? The Story of the Stock......Page 112 Ch 7: Charts Can Help You......Page 126 Ch 8: A Gallery Of Single Best Investment Stocks......Page 150 Ch 9: How To Hold and When To Sell: Attitude Is Everything......Page 176 Ch 10: Building Your Portfolio......Page 192 Ch 11: “The Rules”......Page 208 Appendix A......Page 214 Appendix B......Page 232 Appendix C......Page 262 A Final Word: The Human Face of Dividends......Page 270 Feedback Page......Page 274 Index......Page 276 About the Author......Page 284 Second editionThis witty guide advises readers to stop playing the stock market or listening to television gurus and instead put their money into dividend-paying, moderate-growth companies that offer consistent returns and minimum risk. Citing statistics that show companies initiating and raising dividends at the fastest rate in 30 years, this analysis declares once-stodgy dividends to be "the next new thing" and provides simple rules for choosing the best stocks, using traditional evaluation tools, reinvesting dividends, comparing stocks and bonds, and building a portfolio. Technical aspects of the stock market are explained in the final pages that include two new chapters and revised statistics as well as academic studies, historic back-tests, examples of real-time performance, and a list of resources for further research. Annotation This witty guide advises readers to stop playing the stock market or listening to television gurus and instead put their money into dividend-paying, moderate-growth companies that offer consistent returns and minimum risk. Citing statistics that show companies initiating and raising dividends at the fastest rate in 30 years, this analysis declares once-stodgy dividends to be "the next new thing" and provides simple rules for choosing the best stocks, using traditional evaluation tools, reinvesting dividends, comparing stocks and bonds, and building a portfolio. Technical aspects of the stock market are explained in the final pages that include two new chapters and revised statistics as well as academic studies, historic back-tests, examples of real-time performance, and a list of resources for further research.