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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The company reported total revenue that rose 1.4% In 2022, AT&T slashed its dividend in half to adjust for the sale of its media assets and still hasn't raised the payout. Last year was the sixth in a row that the company added over 1 million new fiber subscribers. As a BDC, Ares Capital lends to middle-market businesses.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Baby bonds are issued by the same types of companies that issue traditional bonds, including utility companies, investment banks, telecom companies and other types of corporate issuers. In other words, they're not backed by any underlying assets or collateral.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Brand loyalty is strong enough that the company was able to raise prices on Marlboros and limit the losses. In 2023, smokable product revenue fell just 1.6%, net of excise taxes. With additional sales of nonsmokable products, Altria reported revenue net of excise taxes that fell just 0.9% dividend yield at recent prices.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

REITs are also required to pay at least 90% of their taxable income as dividends to maintain a favorable tax rate. Gladstone Investment Gladstone Investment is a business development company ( BDC ) that mainly offers loans to smaller, midsize, and mature companies. Gladstone pays a monthly dividend of $0.08

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Ares Capital Corporation Ares Capital is a business development company, or BDC. Income-seeking investors like these types of businesses because they can legally avoid federal income taxes by distributing nearly everything they earn to shareholders as a dividend. over the past five years. For decades, U.S.

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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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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. AT&T generated $19.8 in 2023.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The businesses underlying these stocks are still growing thanks to strong advantages over their competitors. AT&T AT&T (NYSE: T) slashed its payout in 2022 following the sale of its media assets, but the company still offers a yield that's miles above average. Shares of the telecom giant offer a juicy 6.5%

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities fill the gap left by big banks that no longer lend directly to most businesses. The company lowered its dividend payout once in early 2020 and has since raised it twice.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Ares Capital: A 10.05% yield Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company, or BDC. These specialized investment vehicles can avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of their profits to shareholders. AT&T cut its dividend in 2022, but it also spun off its unpredictable media assets.

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JULY 18, 2024

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's also grown its net-asset value (NAV) by 130% since 2007. in June.

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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. There are 505 companies in Ares Capital's portfolio and nearly all are backed by private equity sponsors.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

It's a business development company (BDC) that's required to distribute at least 90% of its income to shareholders in the form of dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. It also recently completed the acquisition of alternative asset manager Sculptor Capital Management.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). Like Energy Transfer, the company is organized as a limited partnership and operates pipelines, storage facilities, and other midstream assets. However, the company's yield of around 7.5%

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JUNE 23, 2024

AT&T AT&T cut its dividend in 2022 to compensate for the spin-off of its unpredictable media assets. The company hasn't raised the payout since slashing it a couple of years ago, and at recent prices, the telecom stock offers a 6.1% At the end of March, the company's net debt level was 2.9 dividend yield.

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APRIL 28, 2024

The kicker: The iShares Core High Dividend ETF is very tax efficient. But simply owning a fund can create taxable events, even if you don't sell that fund in a particular tax year. If this fund isn't held in a tax-protected account like an IRA, you may end up owing taxes on these gains. A word of warning here.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

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. Of course, the company must generate plenty of income in the first place to have enough to pay dividends.

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APRIL 7, 2024

It's the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC). As a BDC, Ares Capital must return at least 90% of its income to shareholders as dividends to be exempt from federal taxes. The company continues to generate plenty of income to return as evidenced by its dividend yield of nearly 9.4%.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

Now that it's purely a telecommunications business, investors can expect predictable cash flows supporting its quarterly dividend. AT&T froze its dividend in place after lowering it in 2022 to adjust for the sale of its media assets. yield and there's a good chance the company will soon begin raising its payout again.

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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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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. the amount of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) that management expects this year. That works out to about 3.1x

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Kayne Anderson Private Credit, a middle-market direct lending platform with $5bn in assets, has sold a passive minority stake in itself to Bonaccord Capital Partners, a subsidiary of asset manager P10 Inc, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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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 5, 2023

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital: 10.95% yield A second incomparable ultra-high-yield dividend stock that's begging to be added to income seekers' portfolios in December is little-known business development company (BDC) PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT). million of the company's $906.3

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JUNE 18, 2023

However, Buffett does own shares of the stock via Berkshire's subsidiary, New England Asset Management (NEAM). That yield is so high in large part because Ares is a business development company (BDC). BDCs provide financing to small-to-medium-sized businesses. regulatory filings disclosing its holdings.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

AT&T AT&T lowered its dividend payout in 2022 to adjust for the sale of its unpredictable media assets. Now that it's strictly a telecommunications business, the cash flows it uses to make dividend payments should be extra reliable. At recent prices, the stock offers a 5.2% dividend yield.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The company offers all the services you'd expect from any traditional bank, including checking and savings accounts, credit cards , investing, and a wide array of loans. That was an incredibly fortunate business mix in 2021 and then again in 2023, when demand for new cars was huge. All told, it boasts more than $600 billion in assets.

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MARCH 6, 2024

dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company (BDC) that specializes in providing capital to venture-backed start-ups. New England Asset Management (NEAM) is a subsidiary of Berkshire, and one of its positions is none other than Ares. Hercules Capital: 10.6% Kinder Morgan: 6.5%

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

4 To discuss the opportunities in this rising asset class and how to navigate the benefits and challenges of higher-for-longer rates, I welcome, as indicated below, the perspectives of Jonathan Bock, Co-CEO of Blackstone’s Business Development Companies (BDCs) and Global Head of Market Research for Blackstone Credit.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Mortgage REITs like Annaly want to borrow money at low short-term lending rates and use this capital to buy higher-yielding long-term assets, such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Not having the nation's central bank as a buyer of MBSs opens the door for Annaly to land more lucrative MBSs for its own asset portfolio.

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