dninq110831.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
FORM N-Q
 
QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY
 
Investment Company Act File Number:  811-8747
 
DIVIDEND AND INCOME FUND, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
 
11 Hanover Square, 12th Floor
New York, NY
10005
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)


John F. Ramírez, Esq.
Dividend and Income Fund, Inc.
11 Hanover Square
New York, NY 10005
(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 1-212-785-0400

 
Date of Fiscal Year End:   11/30
 
Date of Reporting Period:  08/31/2011
 
Item 1. Schedule of Investments
 
DIVIDEND AND INCOME FUND, INC.
SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO INVESTMENTS
August 31, 2011
(Unaudited)
 
Shares
     
Cost
   
Value
 
   
COMMON STOCKS (71.93%)
           
   
Aircraft Engines & Engine Parts (1.03%)
           
  10,000  
United Technologies Corp.
  $ 727,426     $ 742,500  
                       
     
Beverages (2.37%)
               
  15,000  
Coca-Cola Company
    835,675       1,056,750  
  10,000  
PepsiCo, Inc.
    529,400       644,300  
            1,365,075       1,701,050  
                       
     
Cigarettes (2.10%)
               
  30,000  
Altria Group, Inc.
    634,550       815,700  
  10,000  
Philip Morris International, Inc.
    485,376       693,200  
            1,119,926       1,508,900  
                       
     
Computer & Office Equipment (1.39%)
               
  25,000  
Hewlett-Packard Company
    1,088,505       650,750  
  2,000  
International Business Machines Corporation
    258,964       343,820  
            1,347,469       994,570  
                       
     
Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas (0.99%)
               
  8,160  
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
    527,752       707,799  
                       
     
Deep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight (0.96%)
               
  50,000  
Seaspan Corp.
    347,030       691,500  
                       
     
Dolls & Stuffed Toys (0.94%)
               
  25,000  
Mattel, Inc. (a)
    610,742       671,750  
                       
     
Electric Services (4.75%)
               
  11,000  
Entergy Corp.
    693,431       717,310  
  65,000  
Southern Company (a)
    2,326,432       2,688,400  
            3,019,863       3,405,710  
                       
     
Electronic & Other Electrical Equipment (2.89%)
               
  20,000  
Emerson Electric Company (a)
    747,590       931,000  
  70,000  
General Electric Company
    1,166,254       1,141,700  
            1,913,844       2,072,700  
                       
     
Electronic & Other Services Combined (1.02%)
               
  17,000  
Exelon Corp.
    715,134       733,040  
                       
     
Fire, Marine & Casualty Insurance (1.80%)
               
  20,000  
Ace Ltd.
    829,324       1,291,600  
                       
     
Food & Kindred Products (0.49%)
               
  10,000  
Kraft Foods, Inc. Class A (a)
    258,704       350,200  
                       
     
Investment Advice (0.51%)
               
  20,000  
Invesco Ltd.
    437,950       366,000  
                       
     
Life Insurance (2.74%)
               
  30,000  
Lincoln National Corp.
    670,430       622,500  
  40,000  
MetLife, Inc.
    699,693       1,344,000  
            1,370,123       1,966,500  
                       
     
Malt Beverages (0.98%)
               
  16,000  
Molson Coors Brewing Company
    707,427       700,000  
                       
     
Miscellaneous Business Credit Institution (1.35%)
               
  37,222  
Solar Capital Ltd.
    708,946       860,581  
  46,169  
Star Asia Financial Ltd. (a)(b)
    686,145       107,343  
            1,395,091       967,924  
                       
     
Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories (1.67%)
               
  25,000  
Honeywell International, Inc.
    889,529       1,195,250  
                       
     
National Commercial Banks (1.93%)
               
  36,800  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    774,303       1,382,208  
                       
     
Paints, Varnishes, Lacquers, Enamels & Allied Products (1.07%)
         
  10,000  
PPG Industries, Inc. (a)
    657,378       765,900  
                       
     
Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Preparations (1.57%)
               
  50,000  
Avon Products, Inc. (a)
    1,596,424       1,128,000  
                       
     
Petroleum Refining (2.07%)
               
  11,000  
ConocoPhillips
    731,802       748,770  
  10,000  
Exxon Mobil Corp.
    738,274       740,400  
            1,470,076       1,489,170  
                       
     
Pharmaceutical Preparations (8.52%)
               
  30,000  
Abbott Laboratories
    1,522,047       1,575,300  
  55,000  
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (a)
    1,241,872       1,636,250  
  11,000  
Johnson & Johnson
    708,922       723,800  
  20,000  
Merck & Company, Inc.
    680,994       662,400  
  80,000  
Pfizer, Inc. (a)
    1,211,079       1,518,400  
            5,364,914       6,116,150  
                       
     
Plastic Materials, Resins & Nonvulcanelastomers (2.14%)
               
  20,000  
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (a)
    751,716       965,400  
  20,000  
Dow Chemical Company (a)
    580,754       569,000  
            1,332,470       1,534,400  
                       
     
Radio & TV Communications Equipment (1.75%)
               
  115,000  
Nokia Corp.
    715,012       740,600  
  10,000  
QUALCOMM, Inc.
    383,189       514,600  
            1,098,201       1,255,200  
                       
     
Radio Telephone Communications (0.73%)
               
  20,000  
Vodafone Group PLC ADR
    453,234       526,800  
                       
     
Real Estate Investment Trust (2.92%)
               
  53,400  
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (a)
    922,335       968,142  
  150,000  
MFA Financial, Inc. (a)
    1,201,341       1,123,500  
            2,123,676       2,091,642  
                       
     
Refuse Systems (0.69%)
               
  15,000  
Waste Management, Inc.
    532,822       495,600  
                       
     
Retail-Variety Stores (1.15%)
               
  16,000  
Target Corp.
    660,150       826,720  
                       
     
Retail-Women's Clothing Stores (2.84%)
               
  54,000  
Limited Brands, Inc. (a)
    475,950       2,037,960  
                       
     
Savings Institution, Federally Chartered (0.98%)
               
  60,000  
People's United Financial, Inc. (a)
    826,108       705,000  
                       
     
Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (0.57%)
         
  15,000  
NYSE Euronext
    372,671       409,200  
                       
     
Semiconductors & Related Devices (3.78%)
               
  23,000  
Analog Devices, Inc.
    726,742       759,460  
  40,000  
Intel Corp.
    796,500       805,200  
  35,000  
Microchip Technology, Inc.
    998,144       1,148,700  
            2,521,386       2,713,360  
                       
     
Services-Business Services (0.98%)
               
  40,000  
Lender Processing Services, Inc.
    733,684       705,600  
                       
     
Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (0.38%)
         
  10,000  
Paychex, Inc.
    309,491       269,800  
                       
     
Services-Prepackaged Software (1.11%)
               
  30,000  
Microsoft Corp.
    900,672       798,000  
                       
     
Soap, Detergent, Cleaning Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics (1.07%)
         
  12,000  
The Procter & Gamble Company
    739,290       764,160  
                       
     
Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (2.31%)
               
  20,000  
3M Company (a)
    1,133,436       1,659,600  
                       
     
Telephone Communications (5.01%)
               
  45,000  
AT&T, Inc. (a)
    1,672,513       1,281,600  
  140,000  
Frontier Communications Corp. (a)
    1,920,849       1,048,600  
  35,000  
Verizon Communications, Inc. (a)
    1,206,032       1,265,950  
            4,799,394       3,596,150  
                       
     
Water Transportation (0.38%)
               
  15,000  
Nordic American Tankers Limited (a)
    448,115       269,250  
                       
     
Total common stocks
    46,906,254       51,606,863  
                       
Principal
                   
Amount
                   
     
CORPORATE BONDS AND NOTES (42.53%)
               
     
Accident & Health Insurance (0.73%)
               
  500,000  
CNO Financial Group, Inc. 9%, 1/15/18 (a)
    507,036       522,500  
                       
     
Basic Industry (1.44%)
               
  1,000,000  
WireCo WorldGroup, 9.50%, 5/15/17 (a) (c)
    978,360       1,032,500  
                       
     
Cable & Other Pay Television Services (1.76%)
               
  500,000  
CCO Holdings LLC, 7%, 1/15/19 (a)
    499,596       505,000  
  750,000  
Mediacom Broadband LLC, 8.50%, 10/15/15
    757,702       761,250  
            1,257,298       1,266,250  
                       
     
Cable Television (1.46%)
               
  1,000,000  
Cequel Communications Holdings I LLC and Cequel Capital Corp., 8.625%, 11/15/17 (a) (c)
    1,011,532       1,045,000  
                       
     
Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (0.64%)
               
  450,000  
Covanta Holding Corp., 7.25%, 12/1/20 (a)
    457,795       460,524  
                       
     
Converted Paper & Paperboard Products (1.40%)
               
  1,000,000  
Appleton Papers, Inc., 10.50%, 6/15/15 (a) (c)
    996,453       1,007,500  
                       
     
Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas (0.36%)
               
  250,000  
Plains Exploration & Productions Company, 7.625%, 6/1/18 (a)
    250,666       258,125  
                       
     
Drawing & Insulating of Nonferrous Wire (0.70%)
               
  500,000  
Belden, Inc., 7%, 3/15/17 (a)
    482,943       502,500  
                       
     
Drilling Oil & Gas Wells (0.75%)
               
  500,000  
Offshore Group Investments Ltd., 11.50%, 8/1/15 (a) (c)
    500,953       535,000  
                       
     
Electric Services (1.64%)
               
  650,000  
Edison Mission Energy, 7.00%, 5/15/17
    650,840       458,250  
  721,760  
Elwood Energy LLC, 8.159%, 7/5/26 (a)
    763,806       715,445  
            1,414,646       1,173,695  
                       
     
Fats & Oils (0.76%)
               
  500,000  
Darling International Inc., 8.50%, 12/15/18 (a)
    520,652       543,750  
                       
     
Gaming (0.53%)
               
  360,000  
Yonkers Racing Corp., 11.375%, 7/15/16 (c)
    358,723       378,000  
                       
     
Hospital & Medical Service Plans (0.36%)
               
  250,000  
Health Net, Inc., 6.375%, 6/1/17 (a)
    235,383       256,875  
                       
     
Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts (0.72%)
               
  500,000  
Dean Foods Company, 9.75%, 12/15/18 (a)
    505,391       513,750  
                       
     
Machinery (0.84%)
               
  600,000  
Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., 12.25%, 5/1/16 (a) (c)
    603,308       601,500  
                       
     
Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (0.60%)
               
  425,000  
Thermadyne Holdings Corp., 9%, 12/15/17 (a) (c)
    427,804       433,500  
                       
     
Metals & Mining (0.40%)
               
  300,000  
Atkore International Inc., 9.875%, 1/1/18 (a)
    305,988       293,250  
                       
     
Metal Forgings & Stampings (0.25%)
               
  170,000  
Trimas Corp., 9.75%, 12/15/17 (c)
    167,037       183,600  
                       
     
Miscellaneous Business Credit Institution (0.73%)
               
  500,000  
PHH Corp., 9.25%, 3/1/16 (c)
    506,483       521,250  
                       
     
Miscellaneous Electrical Machinery, Equipment & Supplies (0.44%)
         
  55,000  
Exide Technologies, 8.625%, 2/1/18
    55,000       52,525  
  240,000  
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc., 9.50%, 6/15/18 (a) (c)
    245,077       261,600  
            300,077       314,125  
                       
     
Mortgage Banks (0.70%)
               
  500,000  
Provident Funding Associates, 10.25%, 4/15/17 (a) (c)
    500,000       505,000  
                       
     
Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories (0.66%)
               
  460,000  
Tower Automotive Holdings USA LLC, 10.625%, 9/1/17 (c)
    466,797       477,250  
                       
     
Natural Gas Transmission (1.91%)
               
  500,000  
Energy Transfer Equity LP, 7.50%, 10/15/20 (a)
    514,197       515,000  
  500,000  
Niska Gas Storage US LLC, 8.875%, 3/15/18 (a) (c)
    510,680       507,500  
  350,000  
Southern Star Central Corp., 6.75%, 3/1/16 (a)
    325,139       344,750  
            1,350,016       1,367,250  
                       
     
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services (1.10%)
               
  780,000  
Complete Production Services, Inc., 8%, 12/15/16 (a)
    790,861       791,700  
                       
     
Oil & Gas Field Exploration Services (0.70%)
               
  500,000  
CGG-Veritas, 7.75%, 5/15/17 (a)
    511,144       505,000  
                       
     
Paper Mills (0.87%)
               
  592,000  
ABI Escrow Corp., 10.25%, 10/15/18 (a) (c)
    598,597       624,560  
                       
     
Papers & Allied Products (0.68%)
               
  500,000  
Cascades, Inc., 7.75%, 12/15/17 (a)
    491,148       487,500  
                       
     
Paper & Forest Products (0.38%)
               
  250,000  
PE Paper Escrow, 12%, 8/1/14 (a) (c)
    241,850       271,250  
                       
     
Personal Credit Institutions (1.05%)
               
  740,000  
Credit Acceptance Corp., 9.125%, 2/1/17 (a) (c)
    758,693       752,950  
                       
     
Petroleum Refining (0.71%)
               
  272,000  
Coffeyville Resources LLC, 9%, 4/1/15 (a) (c)
    275,574       289,680  
  200,000  
Coffeyville Resources LLC, 10.875%, 4/1/17 (a) (c)
    199,285       223,000  
            474,859       512,680  
                       
     
Pharmaceutical Preparations (1.33%)
               
  1,000,000  
Patheon, Inc., 8.625%, 4/15/17 (a) (c)
    1,023,567       955,000  
                       
     
Radio Broadcasting Stations (0.23%)
               
  150,000  
Citadel Broadcasting Corp., 7.75%, 12/15/18 (a)
    152,782       162,000  
                       
     
Radio & TV Broadcasting & Communications Equipment (0.69%)
         
  500,000  
CommScope, Inc., 8.25%, 1/15/19 (a)
    510,906       497,500  
                       
     
Retail-Convenience Stores (0.73%)
               
  500,000  
Susser Holdings LLC, 8.50%, 5/15/16
    507,363       525,000  
                       
     
Retail-Miscellaneous Retail (0.31%)
               
  250,000  
Ferrellgas Partners, L.P., 6.50%, 5/1/21 (a)
    245,067       225,625  
                       
     
Rolling Drawing & Extruding of Nonferrous Metals (0.72%)
               
  500,000  
Novelis, Inc., 8.375%, 12/15/17
    505,911       518,750  
                       
     
Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (0.85%)
               
  750,000  
Penson Worldwide, Inc., 12.50%, 5/15/17 (c)
    758,509       611,250  
                       
     
Semiconductors & Related Devices (0.36%)
               
  250,000  
Advanced Micro Devices, 7.75%, 8/1/20 (a)
    258,355       255,000  
                       
     
Services-Business Services, NEC (0.67%)
               
  500,000  
DynCorp International, Inc. 10.375%, 7/1/17 (c)
    502,020       480,000  
                       
     
Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (0.58%)
               
  400,000  
Scientific Games International, Inc., 9.25%, 6/15/19 (a)
    430,287       414,000  
                       
     
Services-Equipment Rental & Leasing, NEC (0.74%)
               
  500,000  
Aircastle Ltd., 9.75%, 8/1/18 (a)
    503,112       528,750  
                       
     
Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (1.11%)
               
  750,000  
Cedar Fair LP, 9.125%, 8/1/18 (c)
    753,813       795,000  
                       
     
Services-Miscellaneous Equipment Rental & Leasing (0.94%)
               
  675,000  
H&E Equipment Services, Inc., 8.375%, 7/15/16 (a)
    680,769       673,313  
                       
     
Services-Miscellaneous Repair Services (0.41%)
               
  500,000  
Aquilex Holdings LLC, 11.125%, 12/15/16 (a)
    496,117       292,500  
                       
     
Services-Motion Picture Theaters (0.13%)
               
  95,000  
Regal Entertainment Group, 9.125%, 8/15/18
    96,182       96,425  
                       
     
Steel Works, Blast Furnaces & Rolling & Finishing Mills (1.16%)
         
  840,000  
Gibraltar Industries, Inc., 8%, 12/1/15 (a)
    840,794       831,600  
                       
     
Telephone Communications (2.06%)
               
  500,000  
Cincinnati Bell, Inc., 8.75%, 3/15/18 (a)
    509,549       532,500  
  1,000,000  
Equinix, Inc., 8.125%, 3/1/18 (a)
    1,008,817       942,500  
            1,518,366       1,475,000  
                       
     
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods (0.07%)
               
  50,000  
Empire Today LLC, 11.375%, 2/1/17
    49,497       47,000  
                       
     
Transportation (0.55%)
               
  400,000  
Marquette Transportation Company, 10.875%, 1/15/17 (c)
    401,590       393,000  
                       
     
Utilities (0.59%)
               
  400,000  
North American Energy Alliance LLC, 10.875%, 6/1/16 (c)
    409,093       428,000  
                       
     
Water Transportation (2.20%)
               
  679,000  
American Petroleum Tankers LLC, 10.25%, 5/1/15 (c)
    668,138       679,849  
  900,000  
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc., 8%, 9/1/17 (a)
    907,027       895,500  
            1,575,165       1,575,349  
                       
     
Wholesale-Electronic Parts & Equipment, NEC (0.43%)
               
  300,000  
Brightstar Corp., 9.50%, 12/1/16 (a) (c)
    300,000       310,500  
                       
     
Wholesale-Petroleum & Petroleum Products (0.40%)
               
  275,000  
Crosstex Energy LP, 8.875%, 2/15/18 (a)
    275,603       286,000  
                       
     
Total corporate bonds and notes
    30,767,361       30,514,896  
                       
     
MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS (3.62%)
               
     
Natural Gas Transmission (3.62%)
               
  39,000  
Energy Transfer Partners LP
    1,979,798       1,757,340  
  20,000  
Enterprise Products Partners LP
    374,214       843,000  
            2,354,012       2,600,340  
                       
     
INVESTEMENT COMPANIES (2.87%)
               
     
Exchange Traded Fund (2.87%)
               
  15,000  
iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index
    699,712       764,400  
  65,000  
SPDR KBW Bank (a)
    871,731       1,293,500  
            1,571,443       2,057,900  
                       
     
CLOSED END FUND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES (2.33%)
         
     
Miscellaneous Business Credit Institution (2.33%)
               
  112,958  
Apollo Investment Corp. (a)
    1,305,309       1,026,788  
  40,837  
Horizon Technology Finance Corp.
    634,653       646,858  
            1,939,962       1,673,646  
                       
     
PREFERRED STOCK ( 0.01%)
               
     
Financial (0.01%)
               
  80,000  
Solar Cayman Ltd. (a) (b) (c) (d)
    568,802       2,000  
                       
     
Total investments (123.29%)
  $ 84,107,834       88,455,645  
                       
     
Liabilities in excess of other assets (-23.29%)
            (16,711,415 )
                       
     
Net assets (100.00%)
          $ 71,744,230  
 
(a)
 
Fully or partially pledged as collateral on bank credit facility.  As of August 31, 2011, the value of securities pledged as collateral was $39,699,775.
 
(b)
 
Illiquid and/or restricted security that has been fair valued.
 
(c)
 
These securities are exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
 
(d)
 
Non-income producing.
 
 
                       
ADR
 
American Depositary Receipt
               
LLC
 
Limited Liability Company
               
LP
 
Limited Partnership
               
PLC
 
Public Limited Company
               
SPDR
 
Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt
               
SPV
 
Special Purpose Vehicle
               

 
 

 

Notes to Schedule of Portfolio Investments (Unaudited)

Security Valuation
Portfolio securities are valued by various methods depending on the primary market or exchange on which they trade.  Most equity securities for which the primary markets is in the United States are valued at the official closing price, last sale price or, if no sale has occurred, at the closing bid price.  Most equity securities for which the primary market is outside the United States are valued using the official closing price or the last sale price in the principal market in which they are traded.  If the last sale price on the local exchange is unavailable, the last evaluated quote or closing bid price normally is used. Debt obligations with remaining maturities of 60 days or less are valued at cost adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. Certain of the securities in which the Fund may invest are priced through pricing services that may utilize a matrix pricing system which takes into consideration factors such as yields, prices, maturities, call features, and ratings on comparable securities.  Bonds may be valued according to prices quoted by a bond dealer that offers pricing services.  Open end investment companies are valued at their net asset value.  Securities for which quotations are not readily available or reliable and other assets may be valued as determined in good faith by Bexil Advisers LLC the Fund’s Investment Manager under the direction of or pursuant to procedures established by the Fund’s Board of Directors.  Due to the inherent uncertainty of valuation, these values may differ from the value that would have been used had a readily available market for the securities existed.  These differences in valuation could be material.  A security’s valuation may differ depending on the method used for determining value.  The use of fair value pricing by the Fund may cause the net asset value of its shares to differ from the net asset value that would be calculated using market prices.

Fair Value Measurements
GAAP establishes a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation methods. The three levels of inputs are:
 
·   Level 1 – unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities including securities actively traded on a securities exchange.
·   Level 2 – observable inputs other than quoted prices included in level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability which may include quoted prices for similar instruments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, yield curves, default  rates, and similar data.
·   Level 3 – unobservable inputs for the asset or liability including the Fund’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in valuing the asset or liability.
 
The availability of observable inputs can vary from security to security and is affected by a wide variety of factors, including, for example the type of security, whether the security is new and not yet established in the marketplace, the liquidity of markets, and other characteristics particular to the security. To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination of fair value requires more judgment. Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for investments categorized in level 3.

The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, the level in the fair value hierarchy within which the fair value measurement falls in its entirety is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety.

The inputs or methodology used for valuing investments are not an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.

The following is a description of the valuation techniques applied to the Fund’s major categories of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

Equity securities (common and preferred stock). Securities traded on a national securities exchange or reported on the Nasdaq national market generally are stated at the last reported sales price on the day of valuation. To the extent these securities are actively traded and valuation adjustments are not applied, they may be categorized in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. Preferred stock and other equities on inactive markets or valued by reference to similar instruments may be categorized in level 2.

Corporate bonds. The fair value of corporate bonds is estimated using various techniques which may consider, among other things, recently executed transactions in securities of the issuer or comparable issuers, market price quotations (where observable), bond spreads, and fundamental data relating to the issuer. Although most corporate bonds may be categorized in level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, in instances where lower relative weight is place on transaction prices, quotations, or similar observable inputs, they may be categorized in level 3.

Restricted and/or illiquid securities. Restricted and/or illiquid securities for which quotations are not readily available or reliable may be valued as determined in good faith by the Investment Manager under the direction of or pursuant to procedures established by the Fund’s Board of Directors. Restricted securities issued by publicly traded companies are generally valued at a discount to similar publicly traded securities. Restricted or illiquid securities issued by nonpublic entities may be valued by reference to comparable public entities or fundamental data relating to the issuer or both or similar inputs. Depending on the relative significance of valuation inputs, these instruments may be classified in either level 2 or level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Derivative instruments. Exchange traded derivatives, such as equity option contracts, may be valued based on quoted prices from the exchange and may be categorized in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

The following is a summary of the inputs used as of August 31, 2011 in valuing the Fund’s assets carried at fair value. Refer to the Schedule of Portfolio Investments for detailed information on specific investments.
 
   
Level 1
   
Level 2
   
Level 3
   
Total
 
 Assets
                       
     Investments, at value
                       
          Common stock
  $ 51,499,520     $ -     $ 107,343     $ 51,606,863  
          Corporate bonds and notes
    -       30,514,896       -       30,514,896  
          Master limited partnerships
    2,600,340       -       -       2,600,340  
          Investment companies
    2,057,900       -       -       2,057,900  
          Closed end fund business development companies
    1,673,646       -       -       1,673,646  
          Preferred stock
    -       -       2,000       2,000  
     Total investments, at value
  $ 57,831,406     $ 30,514,896     $ 109,343     $ 88,455,645  

There were no transfers between level 1 and level 2 during the nine months ended August 31, 2011.

The following is a reconciliation of level 3 investments for which significant unobservable inputs were used to determine fair value:
 
               
Corporate
       
   
Common
   
Preferred
   
Bonds and
       
   
Stocks
   
Stocks
   
Notes
   
Total
 
Balance at November 30, 2010
  $ 200,256     $ 26,400     $ 950,000     $ 1,176,656  
     Proceeds from sales
    (12,900 )     -       (960,000 )     (972,900 )
     Realized loss
    (71,904 )     -       (40,000 )     (111,904 )
     Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
    (8,109 )     (24,400 )     50,000       17,491  
     Transfers in or out of level 3
    -       -       -       -  
Balance at August 31, 2011
  $ 107,343     $ 2,000     $ -     $ 109,343  

Cost for Federal Income Tax Purposes
At August 31, 2011, for federal income tax purposes the aggregate cost of securities was $84,107,834 and net unrealized appreciation was $4,347,811, comprised of gross unrealized appreciation of $9,807,648 and gross unrealized depreciation of $5,459,837.

Illiquid and Restricted Securities
The Fund owns securities which have a limited trading market and/or certain restrictions on trading and, therefore, may be illiquid and/or restricted. Such securities have been valued at fair value.  Due to the inherent uncertainty of valuation, these values may differ from the values that would have been used had a readily available market for the securities existed. These differences in valuation could be material. Illiquid and/or restricted securities owned at August 31, 2011, were as follows:

 
Acquisition
           
Security
Date
 
Cost
   
Value
 
Star Asia Financial Ltd.
2/22/07
  $ 686,145     $ 107,343  
Solar Cayman Ltd.
3/7/07
    568,802       2,000  
      $ 1,254,947     $ 109,343  
                   
Percent of net assets
      1.75 %     0.15 %
                   
 
 
Signatures
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the 1940 Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
Dividend and Income Fund, Inc.
 
By: /s/Thomas B. Winmill
Thomas B. Winmill, President
 
Date: October 28, 2011
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the 1940 Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
By: /s/Thomas B. Winmill
Thomas B. Winmill, President
 
Date: October 28, 2011

By: /s/Thomas O'Malley
Thomas O'Malley, Chief Financial Officer
 
Date: October 28, 2011
 
Exhibit Index
 
(a) Certifications of the registrant's principal executive and principal financial officer as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act. (EX-99.CERT)