When you’re getting paid to own a stock, as income investors like to do, throwing a bit of dash into your portfolio isn’t a bad idea. You can get the benefit of dividend income and hopefully a good bit of capital appreciation.
We asked three of The Motley Fool’s top contributors to give us a dividend-paying stock that might inject the right amount of gusto into a portfolio. Read on to see why Cedar Fair (NYSE: FUN), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD), and McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) could be just the ticket for a little derring-do.