Relative Dividend Yield: Common Stock Investing for Income and Appreciation, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

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Global economic variables, unpredictable interest rates, stock market fluctuations-in today's volatile international business climate, corporate managers can no longer rely directly on quarterly earnings and P/E multiples as definitive measurements of their corporation's financial stability. While many companies are speculating, borrowing, and trading furiously, there is one investment philosophy that can reward you with higher-than-market returns at less-than-market risk.

The Relative Dividend Yield (RDY) buy-sell discipline is a little known, but well-respected strategy that thousands of investors and corporations have used to base their financial decisions on the reliable principle of historic yields. Expert investors Anthony Spare and Paul Ciotti demonstrate the approach that has outperformed the market for more than fifteen years, without the market risk. This comprehensive book covers all aspects of investing and money management, while providing you with the proven advice you need to calmly navigate the rough waters of investing. In addition, Relative Dividend Yield, Second Edition has been updated to help you:
* Compare RDY with other investment methods such as venture capital, emerging growth, large growth, technicalanalysis, and sector rotators
* Manage even the largest portfolios with confidence
* Learn about RDY valuations, including ;consumer stocks, industrial stocks, utilities, and cyclical stocks
* Avoid pitfalls and take preventive measures by maintaining a safe dividend level, using a straightforward analytical process, and focusing on quality companies
* Ascertain the primary characteristics ofRDY stock portfolios and find out the connection between RDY and market timing

With an exercise on Dow Jones stock selecting included, you owe it to yourself to find out why RDY is one of the best-kept secrets in investing today. Relative Dividend Yield is an essential tool for investors looking for solid investment ideas.

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Offers a conservative investment approach suitable to all market conditions and is especially effective in dealing with uncertain or bear markets. The author, a well-known investment analyst who created Relative Dividend Yield (RDY), explains how the system works, the use of dividend and price history to screen undervalued blue chip stocks, and how to set up buy-sell ranges. Along with detailed coverage of traditional, cyclical and energy/utility stocks, the author shows investors how to set up a RDY system quickly with little or no outside assistance. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (June 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471327050
• ISBN-13: 978-0471327059
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,658,008 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Persuasive, But Relatively Lite..., March 15, 2003

By	S. Schneider (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anthony Spare and Paul Ciotti make a logical, but uninspired, case for making Relative Dividend Yield part of one's equity valuation and also one's buy/sell decisions. The book is clearly written and offers ample graphs to substantiate the notion of buying equities when dividend yields are high, and selling them once they are low.

Actually, the graphs may be too ample...readers of this rather expensive 248-page book will quickly learn that the text is a bit long on charts showing individual equity dividend yields relative to stock indexes over time, and a bit short on specifics concerning the avoidance of issues whose yields are high for good reason.

That's the book's essential deficiency: the authors devote a mere twelve overly general pages to "Pitfalls and Preventative Measures" (Chapter 6). Also, since investors will likely have a difficult time constructing the kinds of charts the Relative Dividend Yield methodology requires, it would have been helpful to offer tips on a cost-effective means to make this methodology applicable in real-time. The authors do, however, provide graphs with prior relative dividend yield histories, with room to continue plotting these yields, on several "blue chip" dividend-paying equities.