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$12.80 -0.37 (-2.81%)
7/3/2008 1:00 PM

Allied Capital Corp (ALD)

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The Company provides long-term debt and equity investment capital to support the expansion of growing businesses in a variety of industries and in diverse geographic locations.

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283 Outperforms
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Closed-End Fund - Debt (464), Business Development Companies (18), Mid Cap (670)
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Allied Capital Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $12.80
Last Trade Time: 7/3/2008 1:00 PM
Open: $0.00
Previous Close: $13.17
Daily Range: $12.61 - $13.54
52-Week Range: $12.98 - $33.35
Volume: 1,551,425
Market Cap: $2.23B
P/E Ratio: 20.49
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Allied Capital Corp (ALD)

Avatar woodruffdavid (66.23) Submitted: 11/09/07 8:12 PM

This stock is included in the Morningstar "Dividend Portfolio," which I use as my core stock group. I highly suggest anyone interested in dividend income take a look at this grouping of quality income producing stocks.

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Allied Capital Corp (ALD)

Avatar XMFJordan (72.16) Submitted: 5/03/08 10:02 AM

This might seem a bit harsh, but ALD is simply a Ponzi scheme.

Oh, I am not disputing that they do some business, provide services, and generate revenue. But at the end of the day, the healthy capital distributions (ALD likes to call them dividends, which they aren't) they make regularly are funde...More

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Avatar RetireOrExpire (< 20) Submitted: 6/30/08 12:37 PM : Underperform Start Price: $13.93 ALD Score: 6.33

18% Dividend with 0 profit. Board caught trying to sell more shares without shareholder approval. Very shady. Has fallen and will continue to fall.

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Avatar JDSancho (98.85) Submitted: 6/17/08 8:17 PM : Underperform Start Price: $16.67 ALD Score: 16.38

My original attraction to red thumb ALD came from listening to David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital discuss his short position. Basically, his argument is that ALD is a ponzi scheme, borrowing money to pay out dividends.

I am not versed enough in this company to know if he is right or not. However, I tend to have some faith in him. He would look really bad publishing a book, going on business news channels, and maybe most importantly, losing clients money based off "bad" analysis.

I had reservations about him since I hadn't followed his actions before, but he seems to be dead-on with his LEH short position. If he is correct in his analysis, I think ALD has further to fall. Allied may even warrant a short position in real life.

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Avatar AbeMishima (< 20) Submitted: 6/11/08 1:20 PM : Outperform Start Price: $15.86 ALD Score: -13.09

What's not to like? New low and a violent movement down, just because the company could not obtain permission to issue new shares. This is due to voter apathy. The BOD and management will try again. In the meantime, do more with less.

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Avatar SandmanKy (< 20) Submitted: 6/11/08 1:10 PM : Outperform Start Price: $15.85 ALD Score: -12.89

Received my stock alert that ALD fell below $16.00.

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Avatar JohnEHibbert (98.53) Submitted: 6/11/08 11:10 AM : Underperform Start Price: $17.96 ALD Score: 21.75

Einhorn says so

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TrackJPMorgan 90.73 06/25/08 Underperform NS $15.61-18.00%-4.11%+13.89
TrackJimCramer 83.36 06/16/08 Underperform 3W $16.88-24.17%-7.28%+16.89
TrackOppenheimer < 20 06/12/08 06/12/08 Outperform NS $16.14-20.69%-6.30%-14.40
TrackBBTCapMkts 81.92 05/08/08 05/08/08 Outperform NS $20.12-36.40%-9.64%-26.75
TrackTomGayner < 20 04/10/08 04/10/08 Outperform NS $19.26-33.53%-7.23%-26.30 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackBMOCapital 96.78 02/21/08 02/21/08 Underperform NS $20.71-38.18%-7.44%+30.74
TrackStifel 88.08 01/18/08 01/18/08 Underperform NS $18.85-32.08%-6.26%+25.82
TrackHillman < 20 09/30/07 09/30/07 Outperform NS $26.68-52.02%-17.22%-34.81 Toggle the visibility of 60-Second Pitch and replies
TrackFerrisBaker 79.20 08/17/07 08/17/07 Outperform NS $25.94-50.66%-12.01%-38.65

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