Profit from the Profit: The Past, Present & Future of Dividend Growth Investing

by David L. Bahnsen

Why profits—and what you do with them—define real investing.

Dividend growth investing is not merely a strategy for equity investors—it is a philosophy of ownership and a mentality. At its core, it brings to minority ownership of public equities the same business attitude that majority ownership of a private business Profit is paramount, and those profits belong to the risk-takers who own the business.

Following up on his bestseller, The Case for Dividend Investing in a Post-Crisis World, David Bahnsen makes the case for dividend growth investing not merely as a superior method for generating income, growth, and growth of income, but as a superior philosophy of investing. He argues that many alternative forms of equity investing are better understood as speculation. He defends the past, present, and future of dividend growth investing as the best system he has encountered for accumulating capital, generating current income, preparing for future income, and seeing income grow regardless of underlying price volatility.

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208 pages, Hardcover

Published August 25, 2026

About the author

David L. Bahnsen, CFP®, CIMA® is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a bi-coastal private wealth management boutique based in Newport Beach, CA and New York City. managing over $1.2 billion in client assets. David has been named as one of Barron’s America’s Top 1200 Advisors, as well as Forbes Top 250 Advisors and Financial Times Top 300 Advisors in America. He brought The Bahnsen Group independent through the elite boutique fiduciary, HighTower Advisors, in April 2015 after eight years as a Chairman’s Club Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and seven years as a First Vice President at UBS Financial Services. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox Business, and Bloomberg and is a regular contributor to National Review and Forbes.

David serves on the Board of Directors for the National Review Institute, is vice president of the Lincoln Club of Orange County, and is a founding Trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County.

David is a disciple of Milton Friedman, a lover of Ronald Reagan, and a “National Review kind of conservative” (the only kind). His prolific writings strive to reflect an ideology of freedom principles integrated with transcendent truths. His heroes are his late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, and Larry Kudlow, and he proudly claims heavy ideological influence from John Calvin, Abraham Kuyper, F.A. Hayek, Winston Churchill, C.S. Lewis, William Buckley, Margaret Thatcher, George Gilder, and Father Robert Sirico.

David’s true passions include anything involving related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and his house in the desert. His ultimate passions are his lovely wife of 16+ years, Joleen, their gorgeous and brilliant children, sons Mitchell and Graham, and daughter Sadie, and the life they’ve created together in Newport Beach, California. David spends 18-20 waking hours per day thinking about the free and virtuous society.

His first book, Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It, is scheduled for a February 2018 release.

Reviews

[Steve Johnson]

I was excited to read this book. I have been following Dave Bahnsen for a long time and he and John Mauldin are two giants of value investing. He covers a complex topic in a very understandable way and I came away with a lot of good ideas for my portfolio.

[Brian Ehrler]

Please have a good case for dividend investing

This book is great for new and experienced investors alike. The case for dividend investing is laid out simply, with easy to understand examples and relevant data.

[Jim Ludlow]

I am a dividend growth investor

David is a good promoter of the strategy. I’ve learned from him and am a regular reader of his writings.