More than a decade ago, my wife gave me – as a Christmas gift – a single share of stock for Ruger, a leading American gun manufacturer.  She gave our kids stock, too – each company chosen for their own particular interests. It was a great present.  But this gift led to something unusual.  Ruger issues dividends on a regular basis, and with only a single share of stock to my name, I’d often joke that it cost them more money to send me the dividend than it did to give me the dividend.  Some months this dividend was as low as eighteen cents, but usually it came in at around forty-two cents.  Still it was nice to know that “my company” was profitable.  However, today I got something new, something unprecedented.  I got a dividend check for $5.42 – about ten times the average payment.  That got me thinking.  Why so much?  Why now? So I went looking, and found in Forbes, in an article called...(Read Full Article)