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This Completely Off-the-Radar Company Yielding 11.5% Might Be the Safest High-Octane Dividend Stock to Own in 2025

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This may be Wall Street's safest 11%-plus-yielding stock for 2025 Though there are well over 100 publicly traded companies currently yielding north of 10% on an annual basis, the one that could allow income seekers to sleep easy at night is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT).

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Looking For Passive Income? Here Are 5 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold For a Decade

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Let's break down five companies that are established dividend payers, and assess why holding each of these stocks over a long-term time horizon can lead to massive gains for your portfolio. Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC). per unit at the end of 2009, to $3.70

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3 Dividend Growth Stocks to Buy Now for a Lifetime of Passive Income

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With equity stakes in successful businesses such as Palantir Technologies and Axsome Therapeutics , this business development company's ( BDC ) regular quarterly dividend has held steady or risen since 2009. That said, success for one can offset dozens of failures.

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Could These 3 Ultra-High-Yield Stocks Help You Retire a Millionaire?

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It's in a category of investments called business development companies , or BDCs. As the name suggests, these outfits help up-and-coming companies become all they can be. However, after 14 straight years of steady or increased annualized dividend payments (from 2009's $0.37

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3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy Now and Hold for the Next Decade

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Ares Capital: A 10.05% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. Ares Capital is essentially a lender to midsized companies that have a hard time getting the big banks to return their calls. Ares Capital's dividend hasn't risen in a straight line, but it has increased by 37% since 2009.

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Black Friday Sale for Income Investors: These 3 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks Are Bargain Buys

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As a business development company (BDC) , it must return at least 90% of earnings to shareholders as dividends to be exempt from federal income taxes. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $350,915 !* Such a high yield is par for the course with Ares.

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3 Reliable Dividend Stocks With Yields Above 5% That You Can Buy With $100 Now

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Pfizer With products that many of us can't live without, pharmaceutical companies tend to pay dividends that are relatively reliable. Pfizer has raised its payout every year since 2009, but a market concerned about slowing sales is pressuring its stock price lower. At recent prices, the pharma company offers a 5.9%