The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market [Hardcover]

Geraldine Weiss (Author), Gregory Weiss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1995

For anyone interested in making value investments in the stock market, the authors present a proven and straightforward approach to stock selection. Written in a direct, readable style, the book will give investors, regardless of their background, the self-confidence to make sophisticated stock market choices without doubt or anxiety.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Geraldine Weiss, the doyenne of dividend enhancement, has popularized the theory that there is an inescapable relationship between the corporation's ability to pay consistent dividends over time and its price performance in the stock market. Her respected newsletter, Investment Quality Trends, employs this theoretical basis, and her classic Dividends Don't Lie (LJ 1/89) is a primer on her theory. Using numerous thumbnail company sketches, the authors illustrates how to select stocks from a detailed study of the dividend history of a corporation. Her advice includes how to spot possible dividend cuts, examine utility stocks, and develop an investment strategy. While not as important as her first book, this offers excellent advice for long-term investing. Recommended.?Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad. Lib., West Point, N.Y.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Geraldine Weiss' dividend yield investment model espoused in Dividends Don't Lie (1988) is basically reiterated and confirmed. This relatively simple, straightforward strategy, limited here to 350 select blue-chip stocks, has regularly outperformed the market (as documented by Mark Hulbert, who tracks investment advisers in his Hulbert Financial Digest). Weiss and her husband show how to use her dividend yield theory to achieve current income, short-term growth, or long-term growth in both up and down markets. More than 100 charts and figures accompany the Weisses' clearly presented advice. Novice investors looking for relatively low-risk investment strategies should consider the "dividend connection." David Rouse

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079311022X
• ISBN-13: 978-0793110223
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, August 22, 2007

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Carmine Robert La Mura "prudent speculator" (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market (Hardcover)

I am an individual investor, I followed in the past different investment approaches! The one outlined by geraldine weiss is the better for the prudent investor; After the recent stock market turmoil my portfolio is still on the plus side thanks to the stocks selected using the criterias outlined in the book; Anyway it is a matter of choice, other investment approaches lead to greater performance over the years but at price of much greater volatility and risk, the final outcome might be you can lose your principal!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars May have some value in timing the market based on historic yield, August 31, 2008

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John Cain (Mesa, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market (Hardcover)

I got about two thirds through the book and just couldn't finish it. The material was repetitive and overly cutesy for me (you know - clever plays on words to try to keep you interested and make the authors seem smart). The few gems in the book about the actual value of dividends were buried deep in the material.

If you want to try to time the market based on historic dividend yields for a given company, and are willing to do the dividend/price calculations going back 14 years (the length of time in the authors' charts) for each company that you are interested in (there are no universal rules about undervalued and overvalued yield ratios), and believe that the examples were not cherry-picked, then this is the book for you.

There is a reason the used book value for this book on the day that I wrote this review was 47 cents. I paid full price for the book and feel cheated. I'll be donating this one.