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Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers a huge 9.3% Ares Capital and its BDC peers are essentially lenders to misize businesses that are too big for small-business loans but too small for consideration by a traditional American bank. dividend yield at recent prices.

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yield The second magnificent ultra-high-yield dividend stock that can be bought with confidence right now is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.4%

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Is Ares Capital Stock a Buy?

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Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that provides financing for middle-market companies (businesses that generate between $10 million and $250 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) every year). Image source: Getty Images.

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Main Street Capital Another stock that pays a monthly dividend is Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) , which is a business development company (BDC) that invests in the debt and equity of lower-middle-market companies. It had investments in 191 portfolio companies at the end of Q1.

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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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The company is on pace to achieve a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio in the 2.5 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PenantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company ( BDC ) that offers investors a huge 10.9%

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Now that some of that risk has been alleviated , the company has a pretty good chance to continue meeting its dividend obligation. Ares Capital: a 10.34% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. of the total investment portfolio at amortized cost.

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