The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows individual investors to take part in the previously elusive world of venture capital investing. For example, the BDC invested in Palantir a few years before its initial public offering ( IPO ) in 2020.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The benchmark S&P 500 index has risen by 51% since the end of 2022. In such a buoyant market, finding top dividend payers that offer high yields is a challenge, but it isn't impossible. With a brief exception in 2018, it's raised or maintained its dividend payout since its initial public offering in 2011.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

A broader worry is that while buyers’ hunger may be back for higher-quality companies, as shown by the uptick in investment-banking activity on Wall Street, the books of PE firms are stuffed with less attractive businesses snapped up at inflated prices. The tranches carry an interest rate of 11%-12%.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

per cent stake in Costa on 25 October 2022. However, the US investor has been involved in the Costa Group journey for much longer than that, having been a majority owner of the company prior to its 2015 initial public offering (IPO) on the ASX with its first equity stake acquired in 2011, back when its name was Paine + Partners.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Annaly has declared $26 billion in dividends since its initial public offering in 1997, and it's averaged around a 10% yield over the last two decades. These are companies that are highly sensitive to changes in interest rates. Annaly Capital Management: 12.8% PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.4%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In an effort to combat historically high inflation that briefly surpassed an annualized rate of 9% in June 2022, the nation's central bank has raised its federal funds rate at the fastest pace in more than four decades. BDCs are businesses that invest in the debt and/or equity (common and preferred stock) of middle-market companies.

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