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Good morning,
Benjamin Graham is the father of value investing – and Warren Buffett’s mentor.
He graduated 2nd in his class from the University of Columbia at the age of 20. He was offered instructing jobs in English, philosophy, and mathematics immediately after graduating.
Graham declined the offers and built one of the most successful and famous investing careers of all time.
Graham was both a successful investor and an excellent teacher of investing ideas.
One of his more important quotes is below.
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine,
but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
– Benjamin Graham
Graham’s above quote explains the sharp contrast between perception and reality in one eloquent sentence.
In the short run, perception matters.
Stock prices are guided by perception on a daily, monthly, and even yearly time frame.
What "the crowd" thinks and feels about a publicly traded business matters more than how the business is performing in the real world.
But in the long run, performance matters.
Over periods of multiple years what drives stock prices is the underlying performance of the business (on a per share basis).
If a company’s earnings-per-share rise from $1.00 to $4.00 in 10 years, it’s likely the share price will have gone up somewhere in the neighborhood of 4x as well… If the stock was purchased at a reasonable valuation multiple to begin with.
Investors who think of "the stock market" as a place to buy into real businesses have a distinct advantage over those who do not have a concrete example of what the stock market is.
If you treat the market like a casino, your odds of success go down.
When you invest in businesses with long histories of growing dividends you are investing in businesses that are really making money, and really rewarding shareholders with that money.
If these businesses continue to grow their intrinsic value per share while rewarding shareholders with rising dividends, they should be held, not sold.
“When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.”
– Warren Buffett
The daily gyrations of stock prices are almost mesmerizing. They are also next to pointless for the long-term investor.
Focus on the per-share value growth of the underlying business coupled with dividend growth to compound your wealth over time.
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About The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter
We just published the brand new September 2026 edition of the Sure Dividend Core Newsletter this morning!
- The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter is our flagship newsletter.
- It's where we find and analyze our top 10 high quality dividend growth stocks trading at fair or better prices to buy and hold for the long run.
The image below shows key metrics of each of the September 2026 Sure Dividend Core Newsletter Top 10.
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The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter:
- Always publishes on the 1st Sunday of the month
- Initial edition went live in April of 2014
- Is currently read by more than 4,800 investors
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- Our Top 10 dividend growth stock buys
- Actionable sell recommendations
(As needed)
- A portfolio building guide
- And much more
We find the Top 10 best dividend growth stocks for the SDC Newsletter by analyzing more than 900 income securities every quarter in the Sure Analysis Research Database.
- Securities are analyzed over the same metrics so we can compare them on an apples-to-apples basis.
- This is real analysis from our 13-person analyst team. It's not a quick computer screen or automated AI guesswork.
- All this analysis feeds into the SDC Newsletter Top 10 so we can systematically identify the best dividend growth stocks for our members.
Note: Click here to see a historical edition.
An average of the September 2026 edition's Top 10 has the following compelling characteristics:
- Expected annual dividend growth rate of 8.1%
(Ranging between 5.0% and 10.0%)
- Trading for 84% of fair value
(All are below 99% of our fair value estimates)
- Price-to-earnings ratio of just 16.3
(Using expected earnings for the current fiscal year)
- Dividend yield of 2.7%
(Yields range from 2.0% to 3.7%)
- 34 consecutive years of rising dividends
(Including 4 stocks with 50 or more years)
Note: Data from the 9/4/26 Sure Analysis spreadsheet.
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