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JUNE 25, 2024

billion in 2022. AbbVie's stock price has been under pressure because the company lost patent-protected exclusivity for Humira in the U.S. Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.3% sales that reached $18.6 The pharma stock offers a 3.6% over the past five years.

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JUNE 14, 2023

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. AT&T cut its dividend in 2022, but it also spun off its unpredictable media assets.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Ares Capital Corporation: Ultra-high yield and mild growth Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can avoid paying income taxes by delivering at least 90% of its earnings to investors as a dividend. Among the 473 companies in its portfolio, the average one earns $179.7

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JUNE 15, 2023

In late 2022 and early 2023, the stock price fell hard, and its dividend yield spiked above 15% in response to news that some of its largest tenants were having trouble making ends meet. Now that some of that risk has been alleviated , the company has a pretty good chance to continue meeting its dividend obligation.

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JULY 18, 2024

The value of AGNC's holdings not surprisingly tumbled as reflected in the nearly -50% decline in tangible book value AGNC saw from the start of 2022 until the end of 2023. It had investments in 191 portfolio companies at the end of Q1. When the Fed began increasing interest rates, mortgage rates followed suit.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Buying shares of businesses that produce profits and commit to returning those profits to their shareholders is an investing strategy with a terrific track record. During the 50-year period from 1973 through 2022, the average dividend-paying stock in the benchmark S&P 500 index delivered a 9.3% annually, on average.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

These are companies that are highly sensitive to changes in interest rates. The fastest rate-hiking cycle by the Federal Reserve since the early 1980s, which kicked off in March 2022, sent short-term borrowing costs soaring. In turn, this shrunk the net interest margin for mortgage REITs, including Annaly.

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