Bill Staton’s investment philosophy is simple: look at dividends and revenues of companies, pick the best, adjust your portfolio year to year, and stick with the winners to see profits. In this book, he provides a list of the companies in which investors who agree with this philosophy are looking to put their money, then discusses the investing method surrounding those companies that investors should implement. His method of investment allows investors to take charge of their money and profit by offering them a way to measure success and financial stability of the companies out there. To make the list in his book, companies need to have at least ten straight years of higher earnings per share and/or dividends per share. It’s that easy, and following his plan is the best way to grow an investor’s money.
Book Details:
- Author: Bill Staton
- ISBN: 9781119197478
- Year Published: 2009
- Pages: 256
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
Bill Staton’s investment philosophy is simple: look at dividends and revenues of companies, pick the best, adjust your portfolio year to year, and stick with the winners to see profits. In this book, he provides a list of the companies in which investors who agree with this philosophy are looking to put their money, then discusses the investing method surrounding those companies that investors should implement. His method of investment allows investors to take charge of their money and profit by offering them a way to measure success and financial stability of the companies out there. To make the list in his book, companies need to have at least ten straight years of higher earnings per share and/or dividends per share. It’s that easy, and following his plan is the best way to grow an investor’s money.
Investors could calculate the basics of executing the best investments if they had the data and knew what to do with it. Bill Staton provides this data and the method of using it in Double Your Money. Staton shows investors how to calculate the best investments based on company revenues and dividends proven over a certain amount of time, and adds his flair for investing with quips and stories to light the path toward making sound money decisions. Chapters include: Why You Should Invest in America’s Finest; Valuable Lessons from Benjamin Graham; Being Your Own Money Manager; If You’ve Never Invested Before, It’s Easy to Get Started; How to Use America’s Finest Statistics to Maximize Profits; Being Prepared as an Investor, and much more. A listing of America’s most current Finest Companies are shown in the Appendix at the end of the book, then discussed at length throughout.
BILL STATON IS A SUCCESSFUL MONEY MANAGER WITH A SIMPLE MESSAGE. Bill Staton has been in the business a long time and his base of investors trusts the information he provides. With numerous products from books to newsletters, Bill is a confident money manager with a built-in audience. His investment strategy is selecting profitable companies with consistently rising dividends, and these methods have earned him higher returns than the S&P500 for the past thirty years. UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BEST COMPANIES TO INVEST IN. Double Your Money contains a listing of America’s Finest Companies to invest in. In addition, Staton discusses the world of investing surrounding the list through anecdotes. He offers investors advice on the less tangible methods of becoming a better investor by discussing just how to implement ideas into action.
About the Author
Bill Staton, CFA, (Charlotte, NC) began his investment career as an analyst with Interstate Securities in 1971. By age 31, he was already a millionaire investor and one of the financial industry’s star performers with a knack for beating the market year after year. In 1986, Bill founded The Staton Institute, helping thousands increase their wealth with a commonsense approach to investing. A frequent speaker on investing and economic issues, Bill has been profiled or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, Barron’s, Business Week, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and Money magazine. He is the coauthor of five books on investing, including coauthor of Worry-Free Family Finances with his wife Mary and The Statons’ E-Money Digest Newsletter for investors. He has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. Jeffrey A. Hirsch (Nyack, NY) is Editor-in-Chief of the perennially popular Stock Trader’s Almanac, Commodity Trader’s Almanac, and Almanac Investor newsletter.