Geraldine Weiss
About
Geraldine Weiss was one of the first women to run a major investment advisory. She launched the Investment Quality Trends newsletter in 1966 and initially signed it "G. Weiss" because clients in that era would not take investment advice from a woman.
Her method — pioneered decades before dividend investing became fashionable — used a stock's dividend yield relative to its own historical range as a valuation signal on high-quality blue-chip companies.
For her work she was nicknamed "the Grande Dame of Dividends" and became a template for a generation of income-focused investors.
- Focus on high-quality companies with long records of paying and raising dividends.
- A stock's yield history — not the broad market's — tells you when it is cheap or expensive.
- Dividends are honest. It's much harder to fake a cash payment than an earnings number.
From the record
Historical positions — for education, not a current portfolio.
- Blue-chip dividend payers — bought when their yields hit historically high bands and sold when yields compressed back toward historic norms.
- Classic consumer and industrial blue chips of her era — high-quality names with long records of paying and raising dividends.
Read Geraldine in their own words
Dividends Don't Lie
Weiss's core method — using dividend-yield history to identify undervalued blue chips.
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Weiss made dividend-yield history a valuation tool decades before dividend investing became fashionable — and broke a door open for women in investment research along the way.