All investing starts with goals. Whether your goal is long-term wealth accumulation, income

to re-invest, or income to use right now, dividend growth stocks can help you achieve

your goal.

With quality dividend growth stocks, you become part-owner of successful businesses that

share their profits through dividends. Their payments come directly to you and are paid

in cash. These stocks pay you to invest.

It is surprising how little attention many investors give to dividend growth stocks. Yet quietly,

whether the market goes up, down, or sideways, dividends growth stocks continue to

pay.

These stocks provide cash returns on your investments without having to sell them. Despite

the media’s intense focus on markets and prices, stocks are not only worth what you

could sell them for. Quality dividend growth companies pay attractive yields and raise their

dividends every year. Much of their value comes from those dividend programs, because

they provide real cash that rises each year.

These enterprises are consistently profitable, growing their earnings through thick and thin,

and operating with the best business models. And best of all, they share their profits with

their shareholders on a regular basis: They not only pay but also raise their dividends

every year. Depending on where you are in life, you can reinvest those dividends to speed

your accumulation of wealth, ramp up your income stream, or take them as current income

that stays ahead of inflation.

There are only a few hundred consistent dividend growth companies in the world. My

eBook, TOP 40 DIVIDEND GROWTH STOCKS FOR 2014: A Sensible Guide to

Dividend Growth Investing, shows you how to find them, evaluate them, and build your

own perpetual cash machine of increasing dividends. It presents an exclusive list and

exhaustive analysis of 40 great dividend growth stocks for 2014, plus a complete guide on

how to construct and maintain your dividend stock portfolio.

The dividend growth strategy allows you to partner with your companies. You share in their

successes rather than trade them like baseball cards. TOP 40 DIVIDEND GROWTH

STOCKS FOR 2014 is the premier how-to-do-it guide for dividend growth investing. It

presents a straightforward sensible method for picking great dividend companies,

identifying fair prices for their stocks, and building your cash-generating portfolio.

Whether your objective is to accumulate wealth over time or to create a reliable

inflation-beating income stream, the dividend growth strategy can work for you.

Following my logical process, you can start to build a new dividend growth portfolio

immediately or re-tool a portfolio you already have.

This message is meant to be quiet, sensible, and informative. It is for adults who are

serious about stock investing. It is for self-directed individuals who want to be intelligent

investors in superior businesses and collect a fair share of their profits rather than try to

out-gun Wall Street in endless trading games.

The dividend growth strategy is not about trying to double your money every 180 days with

high-risk picks and frequent trading. Rather, it is about staying out of traffic, earning

3. How Dividend Growth Stocks Help You Psychologically

4. Some Features of 2014’s Top 40

5. Why the Step-by-Step Investment Guide Is Important

6. Features, Benefits, and Distinctions from Competitors

7. How to Purchase

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1. Why Dividend Growth Stocks are Good for Long-Term Wealth Building

From a long-term perspective, the most profitable stocks have been dividend growth stocks.

Surprised? The stocks with the best total returns are not the headline-grabbing high-growth,

latest great thing issues. They are not hot technology stocks. The champions for best total

returns have been dividend-raising stocks.

Look at this fascinating chart from Ned Davis Research, which has been studying dividend-

paying companies since 1972:

Average Annual Total Returns of S&P 500 Stocks

by Dividend Policy, 1972 to 2013

Notice that the annual return from dividend- raising stocks (the bar at the top) far exceeds

the return from non-dividend-paying stocks (the second bar from the bottom). Many studies

have come to similar conclusions. A sample of them are discussed in the eBook.

Even during the high-flying bull market of 1982-2000, when so much total return came from

price increases, dividend stocks outperformed non-dividend stocks. The same thing

happened in the market recovery from 2003-2007.

Studies show that dividends have accounted for around 40% of the total return of

the stock market, year in and year out. That may surprise you, considering how little

publicity dividends get compared to stock prices. There is no widely reported dividend

index that gets the coverage given every day to the Dow, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ.

But those indexes show price changes only. (The chart above reflects total returns, not just

price changes.) Thus, traditional indexes give a very incomplete picture of how stocks are

doing. No wonder dividends pass unnoticed. But the fact is, hundreds of billions of

dollars are distributed every year by dividend-paying companies. In 2013, more than

$340 Billion was distributed by S&P 500 companies alone. It is almost like a TARP or

stimulus package every year, and anybody can get in on it.

Dividend-paying stocks are attractive as a core investment for anybody, of any age.

Are you in the accumulation stage of your life? That would be basically everybody short of

retirement. You have immediate financial needs, of course, but you are also saving for

retirement at the same time.

Under the dividend growth approach, you reinvest dividends to accelerate your wealth-

building. The following chart shows the impact of reinvesting dividends.

Impact of Reinvesting Dividends: S&P 500, 2004-2013

[Depicted: SPY (an ETF that tracks the S&P 500). The blue line shows price returns only. The green line above it

shows total returns with dividends reinvested.]

What causes the big difference between the two lines? Re-investing dividends brings a

second layer of compounding into play. The first layer comes from the annual

increases in the dividends themselves. The second layer—dividend reinvestment—causes

the phenomenon shown in the chart. When you reinvest dividends, you create a virtuous

circle: Re-invested dividends >> More shares owned >> More dividends to re-invest >> etc.

The green line (total returns with dividends reinvested) pulls away inevitably from the blue

price-only line.

During the so-called Lost Decade (2000-2009), reinvested dividends were responsible for

87% of the S&P 500’s total return.

The dividend growth strategy cannot guarantee that you will build a fortune, of course. No

one can control the market value of their portfolio. But the strategy does tilt the odds in

your favor that your total wealth will rise over time, and it does insure that you are collecting

dividend rights along the way. It is these dividend rights that will put you in good

stead when you hit retirement age and need inflation-beating income.

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2. Why Dividend Growth Stocks Are Good for Immediate Income

Maybe you are already retired. Are you fed up with the meager yield on Treasuries and

CDs, not to mention next-to-nothing earnings of money market funds? Even with a low 2%

rate of inflation, you may actually be losing spending power. The days when you could

simply salt away a good chunk of your money in U.S. Treasuries and long-term CDs, hoping

to live off the interest, are gone.

The benefit of dividend growth stocks here is pretty obvious: They provide more income

than fixed income sources, and it rises over time. Your spending power not only keeps

up with inflation, it surpasses it.

Plus remember, you do not have to sell your stocks to get the dividends. They are

simply sent to you or credited to your account. You don’t have to touch your principal.

You can do anything you like with your dividends. Those dollars are not trapped inside the

stock’s share price. The dividends are distributed directly to you. They provide positive

returns that are paid in cash.

If you are a retiree, you can spend the dollars as month-to-month income. This is where you

reap the benefits of intelligent wealth-building during your accumulation years. Your income

results from having accumulated all of those dividend rights, in addition to the actual dollar

value of your retirement savings.

Many retirees want to have both income and a growing nest egg. Dividends make this

possible. You can reinvest some and spend the rest. And, of course, because dividend

stocks are stocks, chances are good that they will generate price appreciation over time,

even without reinvesting the dividends.

In the bear market of 2007-2009, many stocks got devastated. Dividend growth stocks lost

market value too; dividends do not guarantee against short-term paper losses.

But the best dividend stocks held up better than most, and dividend growth investors

were able to hold on. because of the cash they were receiving. When the market retreats,

dividend-paying stocks tend to keep their value longer, as investors sell off other shares first.

When the bull rally began in March, 2009, dividend growth stocks generally rose right back

up with the market, even outperforming it when you include the dividends. And here’s the

great thing: Most of the best dividend growth stocks never stopped raising their

dividends straight through the financial crisis and market crash. Did you know that

more than 400 companies kept raising their dividends right through the Great Recession?

Their owners’ income streams did not crash, they went up. That is because dividends are

independent of the market.

That leads us to probably the best benefit of dividend growth stocks. Unlike your pension,

fixed annuity, CD, or bond, your dividend income will grow each year. Stocks with

rising dividends are the only ones that appear in the Top 40.

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3. How Dividend Growth Stocks Help You Psychologically

Many dividend growth investors find that focusing on their rising dividend stream lifts a great

worry off their shoulders: They stop worrying so much about the market.

The investing industry, including the business channels on cable TV, is fixated on the

market. But the market only determines price changes. All of the common indexes (such as

the Dow and S&P 500) are price-only indexes.

Such intense focus on the market’s ups and downs influences investors to think that

investing is all about a series of short term price triumphs or disasters. Falling prices

instigate fear and panic, while rising prices lead to euphoria and greed.

But emotional impulses are not helpful in making sound long-term investing decisions. In

fact, studies have shown that many investors regularly make blunders that dividend

growth investing can help them to avoid.

Examples of such mistakes include:

Buying on hype, not facts. The stocks in TOP 40 DIVIDEND GROWTH STOCKS

FOR 2014 have been selected through a logical, fact-based process that has been

validated over the years. It takes into account not only dividend metrics like yield and

rate of growth, but also company quality and fundamental financial factors. The system

is completely transparent, and you can apply it to other stocks that you want to analyze.

Panic selling of good stocks. Sometimes, investors get shell-shocked by market

volatility and sell stocks that are actually good long-term investments. The dividend

growth strategy can help you avoid this by drawing your attention to your ever- rising

income stream and to the fundamental merits of your investments that have nothing to

do with the market circus.

Falling in love with a stock. This can be as harmful as panic selling. As detailed in

the how-to-do-it sections of the eBook, a routine practice in dividend growth investing

is monitorin g your portfolio. In an unemotional, fact-based way, you decide if a stock

is no longer fulfilling the mission you set for it. You won’t trade very often, but if it

becomes necessary, you will know when and how to do it.

After I reorganized my stock investing around dividend growth in 2008, I found that I was

no longer stressed about stock price fluctuations or the market. It was a major shift in

my thinking, and once I made it, I became an investor rather than a trader.

That last point is important. Do you think the prices of gas or groceries are fixed? Of course

not. That’s why bonds and other fixed-income sources can’t keep pace. But dividend

growth stocks do keep up with inflation. The dividends from well-chosen dividend

stocks grow faster than inflation. Five percent, eight percent, or 10 percent annual growth in

dividends is not at all unusual. The average dividend increase for the 40 stocks in 2013’s

4. Some Features of 2014’s Top 40

M any of the companies derive a significant portion of their revenue and

earnings from overseas. reflecting our modern global economy. They participate in

foreign and developing markets even though they are headquartered in the U.S.

The Top 40 were selected through a rigorous process that I use every year. I first run an

initial universe of about 500 dividend growth stocks through several threshold screens to

get the candidates down to a manageable number. Then, I use my Easy-Rate scoring

system to identify the best ones. The system looks first at the company’s quality, with a

focus on its business model, financial strength, and dividend record. We want high-quality

companies, not just companies with high yields.

After identifying the best companies, I assess each stocks valuation. That means looking

for the best bargains. The entire system is methodical, understandable, and emotionless.

The cream of the dividend growth stocks make it to the Top 40. They are presented

in seven tables so you can find them easily: (1) alphabetically; (2) by sector; (3) by yield; (4)

by dividend growth rate; (5) by Company Quality score; (6) by Stock Valuation Score; and

(7) by Total Score. Many of them are famous companies that you undoubtedly know. A few

others may be firms that you have never heard of. But they are all great at one thing:

Dispensing reliable growing dividends to their shareholders.

Here is a small sample of the companies that made the grade to the Top 40:

Several consumer-products companies supply products with well-known brand

names. Their business models are based on producing things that people need.

These companies typically have yields in the 3% range, with some yielding 4%-5% or

more.

One famous company may have served you a hamburger within the past week. Or

maybe a coffee or a smoothie. Its yield is usually in the 3% to 4% range.

Several companies help supply you and others with the energy you need for your

home and vehicles. They produce energy, store it, move it to where it is needed, and

deliver it to customers. Yields can run from around 3% for major oil companies to over

6% for pipeline companies run as Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs).

The book includes complete Easy-Rate Scoresheets for each of the Top 40, one page per

stock. This compilation of the best dividend growth stocks is available nowhere else.

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5. Why Is the Step-by-Step Guide Important?

There is much more to TOP 40 DIVIDEND GROWTH STOCKS FOR 2014: A Sensible

Guide to Dividend Growth Investing than the Top 40 stocks themselves.

The eBook also contains a complete how-to-do-it guide. The dividend growth strategy

is presented in logical steps that build a stairway to understanding and action.

Dividend growth investing is not about flash and show. It is not about doubling your money

with risky picks. Rather, it is about owning quality companies and participating in their

success over long periods. This requires a sensible, fact-based approach.

You can see the Table of Contents here. The text demonstrates how to identify the best

dividend growth companies; how to value them; and how to build and manage your

portfolio. Chapters build the case for dividend growth investing, discuss its pros and cons,

and describe the Easy-Rate system.

One chapter discusses the role of dividend growth investing in retirement planning. And

new this year, I have created a separate chapter about my own dividend growth investing,

including setting goals, creating a portfolio, managing it, and reinvesting dividends.

I write for the individual investor. The levels of comprehensiveness and quality are

high, but everything is in plain English and presented in a pleasing format. The

methodology is totally transparent, and there is nothing that is not fact-based or that you

cannot verify yourself.

The text is non-hyperbolic, educational, and accessible. There are no Secrets of the Wall

Street Gurus or Six Things Wall Street Doesnt Want You to Know. Those approaches

appeal to some people, but not to me, and I dont think to you.

I am excited about dividend-growth investing. I have converted a significant portion of my

family’s own nest egg over to dividend growth stocks, in addition to the real-money

Dividend Growth Portfolio tracked on this Web site that I use to demonstrate actual

dividend growth investing in action.

As stated earlier, I think that dividend-paying stocks are an ideal investment for most

individual investorsabout the only exception being someone who is looking for fast hyper-

growth. That is unlikely with dividend stocks. Of course, neither is fast hyper-loss.

Owning dividend stocks is exciting, rewarding, and fun.

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6. Features, Benefits, and Distinctions from Competitors

Here are the most important features and benefits of TOP 40 DIVIDEND GROWTH

STOCKS FOR 2013: A Sensible Guide to Dividend Growth Investing :

Top 40 Stocks. A n exclusive compilation of fully analyzed dividend growth stocks for

201 4. Use it as your s hopping l ist to create or improve your dividend growth portfolio.

These stocks were selected as described above, using a unique. proven approach

for picking winning dividend growth stocks and identifying favorable valuations. They

include companies of all types and in diverse industries, including REITs and Master

Limited Partnerships (MLPs).

Completed Easy-Rate Scoresheets. One concise sheet per stock, 40 in all, filled

out according to the point system that I have devised and refined over the past several

years. Th e completed Scoresheets s ave you the work of looking up data and

evaluating stocks y ourself. The hard work has been done for you. I do recommend that

before buying any stock, you update the information, especially the stock’s valuation.

That has been made easier again this year with the inclusion of free links to the

F.A.S.T. Graphs used in the valuation process.

Up to date . The e B ook ( PDF ) format by passes the lengthy delays of regular book

publishing. By comparison, an often-seen Best Stocks of 20 1 x book is published

each year with information that is almost a year old by the time the book hits the

shelves. The information in my eBook is just days old at the time of publication.

Clear, succinct text. A bout 1 8 0 pages of text —well over half the book— comprises a

theoretical foundations for the dividend growth strategy; a review of 201 3 and preview

of 201 4 ; a handy cheat sheet that boils the scoring system down to three pages; a

chapter on retirement planning; and g uide s to where to find information and my free

articles on Seeking Alpha. The book is written in an accessible, conversational style.

The text is augmented with illustrations, tables, summaries, and other aids to

understanding.

N o separate pamphlets . The text is fully integrated. It flows logically. It contains

complete information that is easily comprehensible. There are n o cumbersome

bonus reports that are really just come-ons to make it seem like you are getting lots

of stuff. Thats just a marketing ployand it is also lazy, forcing you to weave

information from each pamphlet into a complete. integrated picture. My eBook

weaves it together for you.

Table of all stocks that have ever made the Top 40. Every year, because of

changes in company fortunes. dividend policies. and valuations, some stocks are

dropped from the Top 40 and replaced by others. Just a handful of companies have

made it to the top every year. This table displays all of the stocks that have ever done

so and shows the years they made it. Many of these stocks are still viable dividend

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the cheat sheet stock scoring sy s tem or the table of Top 40 stocks sorted by yield.

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Best Wishes for Your Investing Success,

Dave Van Knapp

PS: I am really excited about dividend growth investing. I started with it in 2007-08, and in

2011, I abandoned other forms of stock investing. I moved the money into the dividend

growth strategy. That means that a large percentage of my wife’s and my personal assets

now reside in our dividend growth portfolios. I have come to understand that if I get the

dividend growth part of my investing right, the portfolio’s value will take care of itself. I

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