The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth (Hardcover)

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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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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.

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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 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews 50 of 52 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars simply a SMART strategy, August 28, 1999 By  [e-mail] (tucson, az) - See all my reviews 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. 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A real sure thing!, June 8, 1999 By A Customer This review is from: The Single Best Investment (Hardcover) As a business major I've read a countless number of dry books on the subjects of stock picking and market analysis, but this book breaks that mold. It is an easy read that presents a simple plan for investing in growing stocks with rising dividends. Your returns will compound over time through market highs and lows. Miller suggests you follow his investment steps and then forget about them, ignoring the markets' daily fluctuations and the contradicting theories of analysts. Excellent advice at a time when there is too much information being made available to too many people all of the time. This book is a must for all serious investors, it explains how to successfully achieve the profits we all desire without the risks. 18 of 20 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!		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars very good book for beginning investors or more experienced traders The author, Mr. Lowell Miller, discusses the power of compounded dividend reinvestment of common stocks. Read more Published 4 months ago by Mark E. Kosmowski 5.0 out of 5 stars You Will Multiply Your Wealth Many Times Over Professional money manager Lowell Miller unlocks the secrets of long-term investment success in a simple and understandable rule-based format. Read more Published 8 months ago by Jusuf Hariman 3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new here Overall this is a good book, but there is nothing in this volume that will help you find the really big winners. Read more Published 20 months ago by J. Witchard 5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Advocate of 100% Stock Asset Allocation I am a great fan of passive index funds. I also hate the idea of owning bonds and have toyed with the idea of replacing bonds in my asset allocation with high dividend stocks from... Read more Published on July 8, 2007 by Dale C. Maley 5.0 out of 5 stars Among the Best Investing Books Available I've read dozens of investing "classics" and this one ranks high among them. It's engangingly written without being pushy or arrogant. Read more Published on July 24, 2006 by Justin C. Kestler 5.0 out of 5 stars good investment book I read geraldine weiss investment books, and made up my mind to keep studying dividend investing; actually it is one of the best strategies to employ in hard markets like the one... Read more Published on July 3, 2006 by Carmine Robert La Mura 5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best investment books so far! "Single Best Investment" is an intelligent, easy to understand and yet a rather entertaining book that should be of equal interest to a wide spectrum of investors, from... Read more Published on July 18, 1999 5.0 out of 5 stars Reliable Investment Advice 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... Read more Published on June 23, 1999 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent choice for the prudent investor. The material presented lays out basic concepts of compounding as applied to dividend growth (income) and capital appreciation. Read more Published on May 30, 1999 3.0 out of 5 stars Another Buy-And-Hold Investment Book The author tells you everything you could possibly want to know about his investment strategy of buying growth stocks with rising dividends. Read more Published on May 28, 1999 by James Lor Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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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 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #56,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	[e-mail] (tucson, az) - See all my reviews

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.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real sure thing!, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

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

As a business major I've read a countless number of dry books on the subjects of stock picking and market analysis, but this book breaks that mold. It is an easy read that presents a simple plan for investing in growing stocks with rising dividends. Your returns will compound over time through market highs and lows. Miller suggests you follow his investment steps and then forget about them, ignoring the markets' daily fluctuations and the contradicting theories of analysts. Excellent advice at a time when there is too much information being made available to too many people all of the time. This book is a must for all serious investors, it explains how to successfully achieve the profits we all desire without the risks.

18 of 20 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!