The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth [Hardcover]

Lowell Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2006

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.

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About the Author

Lowell Miller is the author of The Momentum-Gap Method and The Perfect Investment and is the president of Miller/Howard Investments, Inc. He is frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, has written for The New York Times Magazine, and appears on television business shows. He lives in Woodstock, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 265 pages
• Publisher: Print Project; 2nd edition (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965175081
• ISBN-13: 978-0965175081
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars simply a SMART strategy, August 28, 1999

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This review is from: The Single Best Investment (Hardcover)

this is a great book. O'Higgin's book on buying the Dogs of the Dow was a good book, and it made sense: buy quality when it is cheap. Well, Miller's book makes sense, too. In fact, it makes so much sense, that you wonder "why, of course, that's the way to make money". This book reminds you how important dividends are (some 70% of stocks' returns over the past 50 years), and how significant compounding can be. ("yeah, yeah, yeah" you say, but how about 20+% annual return per year on an investment in a solid, low risk company? Miller tells you how.) Though this is not the kind of book that appeals to day-traders, or "hot stock" investors, it is the kind of book that should appeal to smart investors.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great investment book., June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Single Best Investment (Hardcover)

This is an important but easy-to read book that argues that the single best investment is in stocks with rising dividends. It hits a layer of real bedrock, providing a long-term fundamental perspective that is a great antidote to the information overload that is typical of investment information today. Applying this approach is a low risk way to create a "compounding machine" that relentlessly grinds out income and capital appreciation over the long-term. It is a book both for both beginning as well as experienced investors, and is well-written and organized with excellent summaries at the end of each chapter.

This is a really good book!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reliable Investment Advice, June 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Single Best Investment (Hardcover)

The Single Best Investment provides a detailed step-by-step guide to investing in high quality dividend-growth stocks that will produce increasing returns over the long run without increased risk exposure. Investing in these easy to hold stocks saves you from the hassle of following the markets' ups and downs on a daily basis. A sensible plan based on real financial facts, not the latest market fad; this strategy will work just as well 50 years from now as it does today. As signs show that a slow down in the recent bull market is at hand, following Miller's plan makes even more sense for investors because it promises returns without the usual market anxiety.