The Little Book of Big Dividends: A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns

THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS

THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS

A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns

by

Charles B. Carlson, CFA

Editor, DRIP Investor
CEO, Horizon Investment Services

Foreword by Terry Savage

Financial Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and

Author of The Savage Number

“There are dividend-paying stocks in today’s market that will make you rich,” says Charles B. Carlson, bestselling author of THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS: A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns (Wiley; February 2010; $19.95; Hardcover).  Dividend-paying stocks are as attractive today as they have been in nearly three decades. Just like the beginning of the bull market that began in 1982, today is an excellent time to be a dividend investor.  Dividend stocks at bargain basement prices and with high yields are ripe for the picking in today’s market.

If you want the recipe for getting rich in the stock market, says Carlson, here it is:  Find stocks with above-average appreciation potential, safe and growing dividends, and buy them at attractive prices. THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS shows you how to do just that.

THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS is a blueprint for successful dividend investing. Among the many topics Carlson addresses are:

• The Basics of Dividend Investing. What a dividend is (and isn’t); why, how, and when companies pay dividends; and why some companies pay big dividends while others pay no dividends at all.

• The Formula for Dividend-Investing Success.  Let Carlson introduce you to Big, Safe Dividends Formula, a formula that not only has an excellent track record of spotlighting attractive dividend-paying stocks but also highlights those factors most critical to the safety and growth potential of a company’s dividend.
  
  
• How to Invest Even on a Limited Budget. THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS will show you the most cost-effective ways for any investor—even those with limited pocketbooks -- to buy these stocks. You’ll learn how to buy stocks without a broker with an initial investment of $250 or less!
  
  
• How to Create a Steady Cash Flow for Retirement. Americans are getting older. With age comes an increased demand for cash flow. Carlson will show you how to organize stocks so that you will be paid big, safe dividends every month of the year. If you can sync an iPod, you can sync your investments with your cash needs.
  
  
• Dividend Investment Plans. In order to take advantage of market declines to buy low, you need a strategy that takes emotions out of the decision-making process.  Carlson’s dividend reinvestment strategy will show you how to turn a little money into a golden nest-egg over time.
  
  
• The Only Dividend Portfolio You May Ever Need. THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS has a model portfolio that features attractive U.S. and international stocks and funds with big, safe dividends so you can start investing with minimal amounts of money.

Finding dividend-paying stocks that will make your rich may not be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. It isn’t August 1982, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average isn’t at 831 (thank goodness!) but the big opportunities are out there. Reading THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS will up your chances dramatically of finding them and achieving financial security and prosperity in today’s tough economic climate.  Further information can be found at www.bigsafedividends.com

About the Author

CHARLES B. CARLSON, CFA, is CEO of Horizon Investment Services LLC, an investment advisory and money-management company. He is also CEO of Horizon Publishing, a publisher of investment newsletters. Horizon's flagship publication, Dow Theory Forecasts, has been published weekly since 1946 and is one of the oldest investment newsletters in the country. Carlson is a bestselling author and is regularly quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Money magazine, and is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and radio, and CNN. 

THE LITTLE BOOK of BIG DIVIDENDS

A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns

By Charles B. Carlson, CFA

ISBN: 9780470567999

Wiley; February 2010; $19.95; Hardcover