How Good Are the Fool's 4 Special Dividend Plays?

We continue to examine stock portfolio recommendations from luminary publications to see whether we can mix ETFs and equities to create a portfolio with good risk/return properties that is easy to live with for the long term investor. Recently both Forbes and The Street have made recommendations for growth stocks for value investors. We recently covered the Forbes offering which was: Allegiant Travel Company (ALGT) AmTrust Financial Services, Inc (AFSI) Calavo Growers, Inc. (CVGW) Coca-Cola Company (KO) Tata Motors Ltd Tata Motors (TTM) AmerisourceBergen Corporation (ABC) Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX) Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (CALM) Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) Tim Hortons Inc. (THI) We then covered the Street's offering which was: Apple Inc. (AAPL) Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation (RL) FedEx Corporation (FDX) Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) Today, we cover the Fool's Jim Royal who offers four special stocks paying out dividends that, he claims, blow the lid off the average... Read more