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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Business development companies (BDCs) can be a great source of dividend income, in part because they are required to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income each year as dividends. One leading BDC that has consistently outperformed the S&P 500 is Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). What makes Ares Capital different?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Right now, Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) offer yields above 9%, and there's a pretty good chance that they'll be able to maintain their payouts over the long term. Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ).

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JULY 8, 2024

The good news is that you don't need much upfront capital to get started. Ares Capital Another $21 or so will allow you to scoop up a share of Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). The business development company (BDC) pays a juicy dividend yield of roughly 9.2%. Ares Capital has only 2.4%

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Annaly Capital Management: 12.8% yield The first supercharged dividend stock that makes for a no-brainer buy is mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY). Lastly, Annaly Capital Management predominantly invests in agency assets. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.4%

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

The average dividend payer in the S&P 500 index might be unappealing, but there are underappreciated businesses with ultra high dividend yields waiting for income-seeking investors to scoop them up. Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) offer yields above 8% at recent prices. At recent prices, it offers an 8.9%

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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. This BDC's costs of capital are rising too, but not quite as fast.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Investors who are nearing retirement, or simply eager to boost their passive income stream, may want to turn toward Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). Ares Capital Corporation Ares Capital is a business development company, or BDC. over the past five years. For decades, U.S.

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JULY 10, 2024

Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) , PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) , and Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) offer an average yield of 8.5% PennantPark Floating Rate Capital If the pharmaceutical industry's ups and downs make you nervous, consider PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. However, it isn't impossible.

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JULY 9, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) reigns as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). It provides financing primarily to middle-market businesses. With Ares Capital's dividend yield above 10.1% With Ares Capital's dividend yield above 10.1% midstream energy market.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Stock Business Summary Dividend Yield 5. Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE: BIP) (NYSE: BIPC) Owns and operates infrastructure assets including pipelines, data centers, and utilities 5% (BIP) 4.4% (BIPC) 6. Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) Midstream energy company that operates pipelines and other assets 7.4%

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JULY 16, 2024

Although other asset classes have delivered nominal gains for investors, including housing, gold, and Treasury bonds, no other asset class comes remotely close to the average annual rate of return that stocks have generated over the last 100 years. Lastly, AGNC's investment team relies almost exclusively on agency assets.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , released a study that compared the performance of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 to public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same timeline. In 2013, J.P. Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Companies that regularly share a percentage of their profits with investors are usually time-tested and recurringly profitable. Based on a separate study from Mellon Capital that was released in the mid-2010s, high-yielding dividend stocks are sometimes more trouble than they're worth. AGNC Dividend Yield data by YCharts. Since Sept.

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APRIL 20, 2024

One type of business that income-focused investors might have come across is the business development company (BDC) , which invests in the debt and equity of middle-market companies. These values can go up and down based on the performance of the underlying assets.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) looks like a great target for one-third of your $106,000 upfront amount. How can Ares Capital pay such a juicy dividend yield? Ares Capital stands out from most BDCs, though. More importantly, the company has a more stringent risk management approach than most of its peers.

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JUNE 27, 2023

yield If you haven't paid attention to AT&T (NYSE: T) for a while, you might not realize it spun off its cable TV assets in 2021, and last year, its WarnerMedia assets became part of Warner Bros. Now that AT&T is purely a telecom business again, investors can reasonably expect steadily growing dividend payments.

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MAY 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) might be the least well-known of my picks. Anyone familiar with middle-market financing probably knows the company well, though. It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC) providing financing solutions to middle-market businesses.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

Companies like Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE: ADM) , Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) , and Royalty Pharma (NASDAQ: RPRX) are raising their payouts rapidly. For decades, ADM has leveraged its enormous global asset base to originate, process, and transport agricultural commodities between over 190 countries.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

One of the best ways to create wealth is by investing in companies that pay a dividend. While many different types of companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique opportunity. Hercules Capital: 11.5% Ares Capital: 9.6% The company's 9.6%

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Acquiring properties that you rent to others is a popular one, but acquiring rental properties often requires more capital than most investors are prepared to commit. Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is America's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). as of Sept.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Although the stock market has its ups and downs, equities have handily outperformed other asset classes over the last century, including Treasury bonds, housing, oil, and gold. Investors, say hello to business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). Image source: Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The businesses underlying AT&T (NYSE: T) , Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and Altria Group (NYSE: MO) have what they need to meet their dividend commitments and raise them further. The company reported total revenue that rose 1.4% Last year was the sixth in a row that the company added over 1 million new fiber subscribers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it lends to companies that are too big for small business loans but still too small to work with large banks. Ares Capital has a 14-year track record of delivering stable quarterly dividends.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ares Capital If you take one-third of an initial $123,500 and buy shares of Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , you should make a little over $4,000 in passive income next year. That's because Ares Capital's dividend yield stands at 9.73%. Ares Capital is organized as a business development company (BDC).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In simple terms, mortgage REITs look to borrow money at the lowest possible short-term rate and use this capital to purchase higher-yielding long-term assets. These "long-term assets" are often mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which is how the industry got its name. The company raised its monthly payout twice last year.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ares Capital I think Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a great stock to buy with the first one-third of the initial $115,000. The company's dividend yield of 9.49% would enable you to make well nearly $3,638 in passive income this year. Ares Capital offers such a high yield primarily because of its business structure.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). As a BDC, Ares Capital must return at least 90% of its taxable income to shareholders in the form of dividends. However, the company's yield of around 7.5% isn't shabby at all.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

It's also in the process of acquiring Spirit Realty Capital in an all-share deal that clocks in at $9.3 Spirit Realty's CRE portfolio will complement Realty Income's existing assets, while allowing the combined company to further diversify beyond retail. History offers comfort for investors, as well.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, released a report that compared the returns of publicly traded companies initiating a dividend and growing their payout over a period of 40 years (1972 to 2012) to publicly traded companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same time line. This leverage also supports the company's juicy payout.

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MARCH 5, 2024

At recent prices, shares of Altria Group (NYSE: MO) , Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , and AT&T (NYSE: T) offer an average yield of 8.5%. Ares Capital Ares Capital is America's largest business development company (BDC), which essentially means it's a lender for mid-market businesses throughout America.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

AT&T slashed its dividend after spinning off the last of its media assets in 2022, and the stock has been under pressure ever since. With customers who rarely disconnect their mobile or fiber internet connections, AT&T's telecom business is a reliably profitable one that generated $18 billion in free cash flow over the past 12 months.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Even if your priority is growth -- or capital appreciation -- most investors' portfolios benefit from the occasional cash bump. What the nation's biggest bank (as measured by total assets) lacks in current yield, though, it more than makes up for in dividend growth. Should you invest $1,000 in Hercules Capital right now?

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

AT&T Income-seeking investors should be flocking to AT&T (NYSE: T) now that it's sold off all of its risky media assets. This is a heavy load, but highly reliable cash flows from mobile, home, and business internet subscribers are sufficient to whittle it down to a more manageable figure. yield at recent prices. It offers a 9.6%

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Selling off its media assets helped reduce AT&T's debt load, but the company was still sitting on $132 billion in net debt at the end of June. PennantPark and similar BDCs make loans to midsized businesses that big banks tend to ignore. Hungry for capital, its borrowers gladly accept relatively high interest rates.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

This is to say that an expanding economy has needed more capital to facilitate transactions. A BDC is a company that invests in the debt or equity (common and/or preferred stock) of middle-market businesses -- i.e., generally unproven small- and micro-cap companies. As of the midpoint of 2024, it was hauling in a 12.1%

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JULY 18, 2024

Part of the stock's struggles come from higher interest rates and the impact that has had on commercial property values, which are valued based on capitalization (cap) rates -- a property's net-operating income divided by its current value. It's also grown its net-asset value (NAV) by 130% since 2007. It currently is valued at about 1.19

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Net-interest margin" refers to the average yield AGNC nets from its owned assets less the average yield on what it's borrowed. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for AGNC, and this good news should provide a lift to the company's shares sooner than later. million of the company's $950.3 The company's entire $950.3

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