Publisher's Synopsis
NO ONE CARES AS MUCH ABOUT YOUR MONEY AS YOU DO!To build a strong, safe, stock portfolio that will grow for the rest of your life and provide you with a generous monthly income, there is no need to entrust your life savings to an investment advisor. The 2% to 4% in advisor fees, charges and commissions will drain hundreds of thousands of dollars from your portfolio whether that portfolio grows or not.
The secret of building a strong, generous portfolio is to keep it simple. This means investing equally in 20 financially strong companies paying high dividends with long histories of share price increases and increasing dividend payouts. Dividends are the quickest way to identify potentially strong companies. Scoring such stocks allows you to sort them from most to least desirable. Although readers are shown how to score stocks manually, the stock scoring software that is used throughout the book is provided on request, to those purchasing the book to make scoring even easier and faster. To further assist you, the book has identified, scored and analyzed the best 106 dividend stocks out of the 2,788 stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In a 2 page analysis of each stock, at a glance, you can compare each stock's strength: average volumes traded, operating margins, book values, dividend yield percent, price-to-earnings and of course their composite scores. Share prices and dividend payouts are supplied for each year back to 1999. You can easily see how these strong companies were minimally impacted by the stock market crashes of 2000, 2008 and 2020. Many continued to increase their dividend payouts through these crashes. While it is impossible to accurately predict future share prices, it is far easier to predict future dividend payouts. Fluctuating share prices that are a result of competitive bidding between positive speculators and negative speculators reacting to media hype, rumors and investment promotions. Dividends are derived from profits. Profits are the result of the wise revenue and expense decisions made by company executives. While profits can influence speculators. Speculators do not control profits. The book shows you how to choose the best 20 stocks whose dividends can average a return of 6% and, in most years, grow the portfolio's capital value by 12% or more. If you invest your annual dividend income you can expect to double the value of your portfolio within five years. Each of Ian's books have been an evolution in making it easier for both investors unfamiliar with investing to achieve safe financial independence and for experienced investors to quickly choose strong dividend stocks for their existing portfolios. The following is extracted from this latest book's Index Page: Chapter 1 Building a Strong Stock Portfolio page 17Chapter 2 How to Find Exceptional Stocks page 32
Chapter 3 The Eleven Data Scoring Elements page 39
Chapter 4 The Stock Scoring Formula page 52
Chapter 5 Stock Choice Balancing Chart page 69
Chapter 6 Alpha Sort of the 106 Stocks page 72
Chapter 7 Dividend % Sort of the 106 Stocks page 78
Chapter 8 Stock Score Sort of the 106 Stocks page 83
Chapter 9 106 High Dividend Stocks Analyzed page 89
Chapter 10 Expenses Are Very Important page 303
Chapter 11 The Final Words page 315
