Charles B. Carlson 
The Little Book of Big Dividends 
A Safe Formula for Guaranteed Returns

Everyone needs to invest, but where do you invest during bear
markets?

The massive stock declines over the past year have eroded
savings, but this doesn’t mean you should stuff your money under a
mattress. It needs to be put to work getting some return so that it
will grow.

Smart investors will turn to high dividend paying stocks to get
a stable and growing stream of income. Dividend investing-that
provides an income beyond any gain in the share price-may be the
investor’s best weapon. Dividends are safe, largely reliable, and
maybe at the their cheapest levels in many years. While the best
paying dividend stocks of recent years, such as financials, took a
huge beating in 2008, opportunities will abound in 2010 and
beyond-if you know where to look.

In The Little Book of Big Dividends, dividend stock
expert Chuck Carlson presents an action plan for dividend-hungry
investors. You’ll learn about the pitfalls, how to find the
opportunities, and will learn how to construct a portfolio that
generates big, safe dividends easily through the BSD (Big, Safe
Dividends) formula. If you’re a bit adventurous, Carlson has you
covered, and will teach you how to find big, safe dividends in
foreign stocks, preferred stocks, ETFs, real estate investment
trusts, and more.

* Contains the simple tools, strategies, and recommendations for
finding big, safe dividends

* Helps you put a complete portfolio together that pays dividends
every month

* Show you the top dividend paying stocks with their dividend
payment dates

It doesn’t get any easier than this, and in these turbulent
times, you can’t afford to ignore the power of dividends. Read
The Little Book of Big Dividends and gain a better
perspective of how you can protect yourself for the future.

Table of Content

Foreword xi

Introduction xv

Chapter One The Check Is in the Mail 1

Chapter Two Super Size Me, without the Heartburn 21

Chapter Three If Einstein Was a Dividend Investor 33

Chapter Four The World Is Your Oyster 45

Chapter Five It Pays to Be Direct 61

Chapter Six Postcards from the Hedge 79

Chapter Seven Lifeguard on Duty 93

Chapter Eight Juice Your Portfolio without Striking Out 105

Chapter Nine When DRIPs Become Floods 127

Chapter Ten If You Build It, Dividends Will Come 147

Appendix A Advanced BSD Formula 161

Appendix B The Ultimate Big, Safe Dividend Portfolio 169

Acknowledgments 173

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.