Beating the S and P with Dividends : How to Build a Superior Portfolio of Dividend Yielding Stocks

by Mergent, Inc.; Peter O'Shea; Jonathan Worrall

• ISBN13: 9780471479635
• ISBN10: 0471479632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Dividends are back! Yet in reality, they never really went away. In fact, if you had invested in leading dividend-yielding stocks ten, twenty, or even thirty years ago, chances are you would have made more money than if you had invested solely in leading stocks found in the S&P 500 index.

Author Biography

PETER O'SHEA has been an editor and journalist since the late 1980s. Peter is currently Managing Editor for one of Mergent, Inc.'s leading online products, Mergent's Industry Reports, which provide analysis on the current environment as well as financial data for leading companies in a range of industries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Jonathan Worrall has held senior positions in the financial data and analysis systems and software industry since 1982. He has lived and worked in the U.K., Asia, Australia, and the U.S.A. serving the Global Investment Management and Broking community. He is currently Chairman of Ford Equity Research and is also Chief Executive Officer of Mergent, Inc., a global provider of equity and fixed income data and software. Jonathan lives in the Carolinas and is married with two children.

Mergent, Inc. (formerly the Financial Information Services division of Moody's), is the preferred source for global business and financial information, and has been collecting and delivering financial information since 1900. For over a century Mergent, Inc., has built its reputation as an innovative leader in supplying comprehensive, accurate data, along with easy-to-use information tools based on the latest in technology. www.mergent.com

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter One: Introduction.

Chapter Two: All About Dividends.

Chapter Three: A New Tax Environment.

Chapter Four: Dividend Stocks Make a Comeback.

Chapter Five: The Evidence Is In: Dividend Stocks Really Do Perform Better.

Chapter Six: What Makes a Good Dividend Stock.

Chapter Seven: Yields and Ratios Unraveled.

Chapter Eight: The Mergent Dividend Investing Strategy.

Chapter Nine: Dividend Investment Options.

Chapter Ten: Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Chapter Eleven: Selected Dividend Achievers.

Appendix: Dividend Actions of Dividend-Achieving Companies.

Notes.

Index.