The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market
Geraldine Weiss, the doyenne of dividend enhancement, has popularized the theory that there is an inescapable relationship between the corporation's ability to pay consistent dividends over time and its price performance in the stock market. Her respected newsletter, Investment Quality Trends, employs this theoretical basis, and her classic Dividends Don't Lie (LJ 1/89) is a primer on her theory. Using numerous thumbnail company sketches, the authors illustrates how to select stocks from a detailed study of the dividend history of a corporation. Her advice includes how to spot possible dividend cuts, examine utility stocks, and develop an investment strategy. While not as important as her first book, this offers excellent advice for long-term investing. Recommended.?Joseph Barth, U.S. Military Acad. Lib., West Point, N.Y.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.