My recent perhaps reckless foray into individual stock ownership over mutual fund ownership has an interesting addition to it - Allied Capital. I purchased this stock at 8.00 per share during it's big dip this week amid one of it's divisions filing for bankruptcy. Assuming that it keeps up on it's spree of ever increasing dividends (or stays flat), I locked in a dividend yield of 32.5%. This isn't half bad. I turned on some dividend reinvestment options for the stock as well. Regardless of the dividends, it's good seeing at least one security that is at a higher price than when I bought it in my portfolio!
