If you had bought MRCH at the start of 2005 the price was 372p and the dividend was 18.3p a yield of 5%

The current dividend 28.4p a yield of 7.6% on buying price, current yield if you bought today 5.16%.

You would have sat thru thick and thin and there will always be plenty of thin.

You have achieved the holy grail of investing of having a share yielding 7.6% on buying price, producing income at cost of zero, zilch nothing if you took out your stake and also income from the re-invested dividends into your Snowball.

If you buy into a Investment Trust that owns shares to pay your dividends, you will buy into their enhanced dividend yield as in the earlier working example of CMPI which owns Investment Trusts to do the same.