The real measure of a stock isn't just looking at the dividend yield, even with special dividend. The real measure of a stock is the return, growth with dividends. Based on that, over the last 3 years (in a relatively hot market) a $10,000 investment in Ford would be worth $7,911 today (with dividend reinvestment). That's a
negative return of 7.5% annually. Comparatively, GM +3.6%
I even looked at return over 8 years, with dividends all reinvested over that time the stock return would have been $90 total, yep, $90 return for the 8 year period or a
whopping annual return of 0.11%. Thank god for the "special dividend" or my return would have been negative. Once again, comparatively GM was 3.57% annual return.