Get Rich with Dividends. Lichtenfeld Marc
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Get Rich with Dividends
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Get Rich with Dividends
A PROVEN SYSTEM FOR EARNING DOUBLE-DIGIT RETURNS
Second Edition
Marc Lichtenfeld
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The first edition of Get Rich with Dividends was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2012.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Lichtenfeld, Marc.
Get rich with dividends: a proven system for earning double-digit returns / Marc Lichtenfeld. – Second edition.
pages cm
ISBN: 978-1-118-99413-9 (cloth); ISBN: 978-1-118-99415-3 (ePDF);
ISBN: 978-1-118-99414-6 (ePub)
1. Dividends. 2. Portfolio management. I. Title.
HG4028.D5L53 2015
332.63′221 – dc23
Foreword
When it comes to the stockmarket, most investors prefer glamour to profits.
Why do I say this? Tell average investors about a company with a cutting-edge technology, an exciting Phase III drug, or a new gold strike and they are all ears. But tell them about a blue chip stock with steady sales, a big order backlog, and a rising dividend yield and they are more likely to stifle a yawn.
That’s unfortunate. Because, contrary to what most investors believe, startling innovation is not a good predictor of business success. Or, as the famous industrialist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie succinctly put it, “Pioneering don’t pay.”
A young company that is just feeling its oats – and retaining all its earnings – is unlikely to be the best long-term investment. It’s a widely recognized fact that 80 % of new businesses fail in the first five years.
What really makes money for investors over time – and without the hair-raising volatility of hypergrowth stocks – is steady businesses paying regular dividends.
For example, over the past decade, with dividends reinvested, oil producer Chevron Corp has returned 200 %. Altria Group, the U.S. tobacco giant, has returned more than 300 %. Even musty old Con Edison, originally founded asNew York Gas Light Company – a utility that was born 23 years before Thomas Edison – has returned 130 % over the period.
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